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• How International Law Views Israel’s Military Action at Al-Shifa Hospital

  16-11-2023 17:10 via nytimes.com
  Human rights laws prohibit harming or interfering with a hospital like Gaza’s Al-Shifa, with very narrow exceptions, or using it as a human shield. Attacking one can be a war crime.
  
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• Measuring Israel by the Just-War Yardstick

  12-11-2023 15:00 via nytimes.com
  The Netanyahu government falls short on most benchmarks of whether its actions in Gaza meet the standard.
  
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• El conflicto Israel-Hamás y las leyes de la guerra

  06-11-2023 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Los acontecimientos de las últimas semanas entre Israel y Hamás han planteado para muchos lectores cuestiones profundas e irritantes que pueden ilustrar los límites y las fortalezas del derecho internacional.
  
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• The Laws of War Have Limits. What Does That Mean for the Hamas-Israel War?

  03-11-2023 02:29 via nytimes.com
  
  For many readers, the events of the past few weeks have raised profound and vexing questions that can illustrate the limits and strengths of international law.
  
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• Primarias en Venezuela: María Corina Machado se perfila ganadora

  23-10-2023 14:57 via nytimes.com
  
  María Corina Machado, candidata de centroderecha, lideraba unas elecciones que mostraron la fe de los votantes en la democracia y su descontento con años de gobierno autoritario.
  
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• María Corina Machado Leads in Venezuela Primary to Oppose President Maduro

  23-10-2023 14:06 via nytimes.com
  
  María Corina Machado, a center-right candidate, was leading in an election that showed voters’ faith in democracy and dissatisfaction with years of authoritarian rule.
  
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• Elecciones primarias en Venezuela 2023: lo que hay que saber

  22-10-2023 11:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Diez candidatos de la oposición se están postulando para enfrentarse al presidente Nicolás Maduro en 2024. Se espera que María Corina Machado, una exdiputada, gane la contienda.
  
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• Venezuela Holds a Key Vote on Sunday. Here’s What You Need to Know.

  22-10-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Ten opposition candidates are running to face off against President Nicolás Maduro next year. A center-right former legislator, María Corina Machado, is widely expected to win.
  
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• Book Review: ‘Judgment at Tokyo,’ by Gary J. Bass

  21-10-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Judgment at Tokyo,” the political scholar Gary J. Bass examines the post-World War II prosecution of Japanese military atrocities and makes the case for the real efficacy of international law.
  
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• 4 Ukrainian Children Return From Russia After Intervention by Qatar

  16-10-2023 14:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Kyiv has said that thousands of children have been separated from their families and taken to Russia, in one of the most painful issues for Ukraine since the start of the war.
  
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• Syrian Torture Hearing Begins in International Court

  11-10-2023 13:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The International Court of Justice, in a case brought by Canada and the Netherlands, will determine whether President Bashar al-Assad violated the U.N. Convention Against Torture.
  
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• Western Banks Helped Fund Blacklisted Oligarch’s Charity

  20-09-2023 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Konstantin Malofeyev’s foundation funds orphanages in occupied Ukraine. He denies that a child-removal program there is a war crime: “All of this is fake.”
  
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• Western Banks Help Fund Blacklisted Oligarch’s Charity

  27-08-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Konstantin Malofeyev’s foundation funds orphanages in occupied Ukraine. He denies that a child-removal program there is a war crime: “All of this is fake.”
  
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• At BRICS Summit, Putin Tries to Rally Support

  23-08-2023 00:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Leaders of Brazil, India, China and South Africa addressed other topics, but Russia’s president, unable to attend in person because he is wanted for war crimes, put the war in Ukraine at center stage in the meeting.
  
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• Profiteers of MiseryAggression, the Leadership Clause, and Private Military and Security Companies

  09-08-2023 02:00
  AbstractSince its hailing as the ‘supreme international crime’ during the Nuremberg Trials, aggression has largely been neglected relative to other core international crimes. However, the escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War starting in early 2022 is being held as an opportunity to breathe new life into this de facto dormant norm. This article seeks to address novel concerns as to the scope of liability permitted by the crime of aggression, which arise from Russia’s enthusiast
  
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• Criminalizing Acts of Rebel Governance as War CrimesAn Assessment Focused on the War Crime of Sentencing or Execution without Due Process

  02-08-2023 02:00
  AbstractThis article explores whether it is appropriate on legal and policy grounds to criminalize as war crimes the acts of governance performed by non-state armed groups controlling territory. Using the administration of justice by armed groups and the Al Hassan case before the International Criminal Court as a reference point, it sheds light on the problems raised by the adoption of an overly broad definition of the war crimes’ nexus to the armed conflict. When the definition of ‘
  
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• Jack Smith’s Experience in The Hague and the Trump Investigations

  31-07-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  It is always difficult and risky to prosecute national leaders with some popularity among their people.
  
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• A Sense of Mission at Risk as Israeli Reservists Resign to Protest New Law

  29-07-2023 15:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Military reservists are key to Israel’s defense capacity and a shared sense of national mission. But scores of reservists have resigned over a new law curbing judicial power, reflecting a widening rift in Israeli society.
  
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• ‘The Agreement Is Broken’: Israeli Reservists Resign to Protest New Law

  29-07-2023 12:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Military reservists are key to Israel’s defense capacity and a shared sense of national mission. But after a new law curbing judicial power, scores of reservists have resigned — reflecting a widening rift in Israeli society.
  
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• Brazil Declines to Extradite Accused Russian Spy to U.S.

  28-07-2023 20:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Analysts had seen the Russian as a potential candidate in a prisoner swap with Russia, which holds two Americans on spying charges, Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan.
  
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• Prosecuting the Crime against Humanity of ApartheidThe Historic First Indictment in South Africa and the Application of Customary International Law

  27-07-2023 02:00
  AbstractApartheid is a crime against humanity, yet no person has ever been prosecuted for this crime. In 2021 two individuals were indicted in South Africa for the crime of apartheid. This is an historic first in the country which gave the policy of apartheid its name and material content. The indictment is, however, also a reminder that the non-prosecution of apartheid is a legal and moral issue to be understood in the context of South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy. Furt
  
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• Biden Orders U.S. to Share Evidence of Russian War Crimes With Hague Court

  26-07-2023 20:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The step signals a major shift in American policy and ends months of resistance by Pentagon officials who feared setting a precedent that could pave the way for the court to prosecute U.S. troops.
  
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• Putin Plans China Visit as a Russian Leader Joins a North Korea Celebration

  26-07-2023 00:33 via nytimes.com
  
  The visits reflect Moscow’s ongoing efforts to strengthen ties with Asian allies, given its isolation from the West.
  
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• Putin Will Attend BRICS Summit Via Video Call, Kremlin Says

  19-07-2023 15:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The decision allows South Africa to avoid the predicament of whether to arrest the Russian leader, who is the subject of an international warrant, if he traveled to Johannesburg for a BRICS meeting.
  
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• Putin Will Not Attend BRICS Summit, South Africa’s President Says

  19-07-2023 13:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The decision allows South Africa to avoid the predicament of whether to arrest the Russian leader, who is the subject of an international warrant, if he traveled to Johannesburg for a BRICS meeting.
  
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• Arresting Putin in South Africa Would Risk War, President Says

  18-07-2023 21:41 via nytimes.com
  
  The assertion, made in a court affidavit, was the clearest indication yet that South Africa was seeking any way possible to avoid arresting the Russian leader on an international warrant at a long-planned BRICS summit in Johannesburg next month.
  
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• South Africa Grapples With Putin’s Plan to Attend BRICS Summit

  14-07-2023 21:42 via nytimes.com
  
  An arrest warrant for the Russian leader from the International Criminal Court has created a diplomatic quandary ahead of an August summit.
  
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• Yoweri Museveni, Ugandan President, and Son Are Accused of Crimes Against Humanity

  11-07-2023 18:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Testimonies sent to the International Criminal Court detail accusations of torture and abuse committed against hundreds of victims before and after the elections in 2021.
  
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• Understanding Russia’s Actions in Ukraine as the Crime of Genocide

  13-06-2023 02:00
  AbstractThe new wave of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine that began on 24 February 2022, and the intensification of the armed conflict accompanied by grave breaches of international humanitarian law, has received significant scholarly attention. Many academic interventions have examined the developments in Ukraine through the frameworks of jus ad bellum and jus in bello. Some, however, have applied a genocide lens to make sense of reported numerous and widespread violations of internati
  
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• What is Sexual about Sexual Violence?Narratives from International Criminal Law

  31-05-2023 02:00
  AbstractResponding to the wider concern with how to understand the connections between sex and violence in the context of conflict-related sexual violence, this article examines how international criminal law constructs what is sexual about sexual violence. The article adopts a narrative expressivist approach to the knowledge generating effects of international criminal proceedings, using a discourse analysis of judgments and trial transcripts to demonstrate how ‘the sexual’ in sexua
  
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• ‘He Offered a Prayer for the Flier He Had Just Killed’Superior Orders at the US Army Trials in Manila, 1945–1947

  31-05-2023 02:00
  AbstractThe US Army war crimes trials held in Manila from 1945 to 1947 prosecuted around 200 Japanese military personnel for war crimes committed against US prisoners of war and Filipino non-combatants. Japanese defendants attempted to argue, with little success, that the defence of superior orders justified their actions. General Douglas MacArthur (Supreme Commander for the Allies in the Pacific or SCAP) was adamant that superior orders would not serve to excuse alleged Japanese war criminals f
  
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• Conscription to Fight a War of Aggression under International Criminal Law

  17-05-2023 02:00
  AbstractThe criminalization of the unlawful use of force in international relations is not usually linked to conscription of an army to fight such a war. However, historical precedent in the Nuremberg and Tokyo International Military Tribunals established that conscription was part of the common plan to wage a war of aggression. After a brief history of conscription and its justifications, this article examines that precedent and then analyses how it could be put to use in a prosecution of the c
  
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• South Africa Allowed Russian Plane Under U.S. Sanctions to Land at Base

  04-05-2023 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The move could increase tensions between South Africa and the United States as it moves to isolate Moscow over the war in Ukraine.
  
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• In The Hague, Zelensky Renews Call to Prosecute Russian War Crimes

  04-05-2023 15:32 via nytimes.com
  
  As international support for an independent tribunal appears to be growing, the Ukrainian leader called for “true justice” for crimes in the war.
  
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• At The Hague, Zelensky Renews Call to Prosecute Russian War Crimes

  04-05-2023 15:01 via nytimes.com
  
  As international support for an independent tribunal appears to be growing, the Ukrainian leader called for “true justice” for crimes in the war.
  
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• Zelensky Arrives in the Netherlands to Speak at The Hague, Dutch Media Reports

  03-05-2023 23:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The Ukrainian president has long urged that Vladimir Putin and others be held to account under international law.
  
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• South Africa’s Shifting Stance on Whether It Will Quit the I.C.C.

  26-04-2023 11:41 via nytimes.com
  
  As the International Criminal Court seeks to arrest Vladimir Putin, South Africa objects to its “unfair treatment” of some countries, but sends mixed signals about withdrawing.
  
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• Darryl Robinson, Justice in Extreme Cases. Criminal law Theory Meets International Criminal Law

  26-04-2023 02:00
  RobinsonDarryl, Justice in Extreme Cases. Criminal Law Theory Meets International Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020) 225 pp. £85 (Hardback) ISBN 978-1-107-04161-5
  
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• Benjamin B. Ferencz, Last Surviving Nuremberg Prosecutor, Dies at 103

  08-04-2023 16:47 via nytimes.com
  
  In addition to convicting prominent Nazi war criminals, he crusaded for an international criminal court and for laws to end wars of aggression.
  
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• The Russians Took Their Children. These Mothers Went and Got Them Back.

  08-04-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Making a nerve-wracking 3,000-mile journey from Ukraine, into Russia-occupied territory, and back again, a group of mothers managed to recover their children from the custody of the Russian authorities.
  
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• Custody of a Russian Girl Who Drew an Antiwar Picture Is Still Undecided

  07-04-2023 19:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The authorities are determining who will take custody of Maria, 13, whose single father has been sentenced for “discrediting” the Russian Army.
  
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• Russia Accused of Spreading Disinformation at U.N. Event

  07-04-2023 10:55 via nytimes.com
  
  Moscow used its rotating presidency of the Security Council to host a session on deported Ukrainian children, leading some officials to walk out.
  
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• Russia Accused of Spreading Disinformation at U.N. Security Council

  06-04-2023 02:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Moscow used its rotating presidency of the Security Council to host a session on deported Ukrainian children, leading some officials to walk out.
  
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• Relocation Issues of Released and Acquitted at International Criminal Courts and TribunalsA Defence Perspective

  06-04-2023 02:00
  AbstractThe study of the treatment of released and acquitted persons by international courts and tribunals (ICTs) has been one of the most neglected aspects of international criminal justice. The system rests on the cooperation of states with the ICTs. However, this cooperation when it exists, often ceases when the trial has ended. Regarding the objective of delivering justice, states appear to have either forgotten or refused to accept that both acquittals and the eventual release of convicted
  
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• Days Into Russia’s U.N. Security Council Presidency, Britain Draws a Line

  05-04-2023 01:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Russia had made it clear that a Kremlin official accused of war crimes related to Ukrainian children would be addressing a Council meeting on Ukrainian children.
  
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• Strange Days at the U.N. as Russia Takes the Helm of the Security Council

  04-04-2023 00:47 via nytimes.com
  
  The monthlong presidency of an organization dedicated to preserving world peace is now in the hand of a nation waging the biggest land war in Europe in decades.
  
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• Maria Lvova-Belova, the Children’s Rights Advocate Accused of Russian War Crimes

  02-04-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Maria Lvova-Belova says she is running a humanitarian evacuation of abandoned Ukrainian children. The International Criminal Court accuses her of abducting them wholesale.
  
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• Terminal Illness and Compassionate ReleaseLessons for the ICC from the UN Tribunals and National Jurisdictions

  02-04-2023 02:00
  AbstractInternational prisoners can apply for early release. However, terminally ill prisoners seeking release in the international criminal justice system face significant legal and practical obstacles. This is particularly the case for prisoners convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC): there is currently no framework for granting compassionate release prior to serving the statutory required amount of a sentence. To build a foundation for recommendations for the creation of a system
  
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• Putin Allies Must Decide Whether to Host a Wanted Man

  31-03-2023 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for President Vladimir V. Putin could thrust his allies into domestic and foreign legal disputes, experts say.
  
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• State Dept. Proposes Joint Tribunal to Try Russian Leaders

  29-03-2023 00:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The proposed court, a joint effort by Ukraine and other nations, would investigate the Kremlin for the crime of aggression, but there’s a catch: President Vladimir V. Putin could be immune from prosecution.
  
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