The legal chief of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Brigadier-General Sharon Afek, has said that the IDF should be wary of taking advice on international law from, as he described it, the many law-breaking nations which routinely hijack the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to turn it against Israel. Afek was responding to the… Read more »
Written by Joshua Kern (9 Bedford Row) In the field of international criminal law, international human rights organisations such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) are hugely influential. Time and again, litigation at the ICTY, ICTR and ICC has shown that NGO reporting forms the legal and factual building blocks of prosecutions at the international criminal… Read more »
Public meeting organised by Peace in Kurdistan and Kurdish People’s Assembly UK Thu 17 May 2018 18:00 – 20:00 BST SOAS University of London Room B111 (Brunei Gallery) Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square London WC1H 0XG Click below to book a place at this free event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-trial-of-selahattin-demirtas-observations-on-the-trial-and-the-future-of-democracy-in-turkey-tickets-45971173016?aff=ebdssbdestsearch The prosecution and trial of Selahattin Demirtas has been… Read more »
Written by Joshua Kern (9BRi) and Natasha Hausdorff (Six Pump Court) The High Level Military Group today published a report, “Smoke & Mirrors: Six Weeks Of Violence On The Gaza Border”, on the recent violence along the border with Israel. The report provides an in-depth assessment of the evolution of what is argued to be… Read more »
The Wall and the Gate – Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights, is a book written by Michael Sfard which chronicles Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories from both a legal and human rights perspective. Here is a synopsis from wallandgate.nif.org: A farmer in the West Bank, cut off from his fields by… Read more »
Dear Michael, As you know I am now serving as Co-Chair of the IBA Human Rights Institute. In that capacity I have received and studied the outstanding report of the IBA War Crimes Committee. I wish to express thanks to Hogan Lovells Lawyers in London and to Counsel’s Chambers, 9 Bedford Row, whose members Steven… Read more »
