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• The Amendments to the Regulations of the CourtLaying the Groundwork for Investigating the Crime of Aggression

  08-09-2019 02:00
  AbstractThis article presents and critically discusses the amendments to the Regulations of the International Criminal Court that entered into force in November 2018. The amendments concern the procedural requirements to start an investigation regarding the crime of aggression when a situation has been referred to the Court by a State Party or when the Prosecutor intends to open an investigation proprio motu. In these cases, the Prosecutor must notify the United Nations Security Council and enqu
  
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• Parts of Gaza in ‘Full-Blown Famine,’ U.N. Aid Official Says

  04-05-2024 23:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Cindy McCain, the director of the World Food Program, said starvation is entrenched in northern Gaza and is “moving its way south.”
  
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• Israel, Gaza and the Law on Starvation in War

  04-05-2024 06:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A complex legal question became more pressing after a statement from the U.N. human rights chief.
  
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• Israeli Officials Believe ICC Is Preparing Arrest Warrants Over Gaza War

  29-04-2024 15:41 via nytimes.com
  
  The officials said they thought that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others could be charged by the International Criminal Court and that the court was also considering warrants for Hamas leaders.
  
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• Israeli Officials Believe ICC Is Preparing Arrest Warrants Over Hamas War

  29-04-2024 11:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The officials said they believed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israelis could be charged, and that the court was also considering warrants for Hamas leaders.
  
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• Israeli Officials Believe I.C.C. Is Preparing Arrest Warrants Over Hamas War

  29-04-2024 00:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Israeli and foreign officials say it appears the International Criminal Court is preparing to move against top Israeli and Hamas officials. The prosecutors’ office of the court declined to comment.
  
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• Israeli Officials Believe I.C.C. Is Preparing Arrest Warrants Over War

  28-04-2024 23:51 via nytimes.com
  
  Israeli and foreign officials say it appears the International Criminal Court is preparing to move against top Israeli and Hamas officials. The prosecutors’ office of the court declined to comment.
  
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• UN Panel Says Israel Is Obstructing Its Investigation of the Oct. 7 Attack

  16-04-2024 17:19 via nytimes.com
  
  The commission, which is looking at possible human rights violations by Hamas and Israel, said it had still amassed large amounts of evidence. Israel has accused the commission of bias.
  
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• Power Grids Are Obvious Military Targets. There’s a Way to Deter That.

  15-04-2024 18:59 via nytimes.com
  
  The global community must draw bright lines for combatants in future conflicts by creating specific protections for power grids.
  
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• Russia’s Persecution of L.G.B.T.Q. Ukrainians Should Be a Crime Against Humanity

  15-03-2024 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, justified with homophobia, has seen horrifying persecution of L.G.B.T.Q. people. The world should recognize it as a crime against humanity.
  
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• The I.C.C. arrest warrants for Russian officers will echo beyond Russia.

  08-03-2024 06:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The warrants for two commanders over alleged war crimes may set an interesting precedent, legal experts said, including for the conflict in Gaza.
  
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• On Regulating Means of Warfare

  28-02-2024 01:00
  The current academic debate on profiles of legality, under international humanitarian law (IHL), of so-called autonomous weapon systems has mainly focused on the possibility of using these weapons in military operations in accordance with the norms and prohibitions on the methods of conducting hostilities, with particular regard to targeting decisions. At the policy level, as is well known, the question of the need to adopt a treaty to prohibit possibly the development and use of weapon systems
  
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• U.S., U.N. and ICC Intensify Warnings to Israel Against Invading Rafah

  13-02-2024 08:19 via nytimes.com
  
  International pressure has escalated on Israel to restrain its military campaign in the southern Gazan city, where many have fled from attacks in the north.
  
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• Who Acts When Autonomous Weapons Strike?The Act Requirement for Individual Criminal Responsibility and State Responsibility

  30-01-2024 01:00
  AbstractThis essay examines the theories according to which ‘actions’ carried out by autonomous weapon systems enabled by strong artificial intelligence in detecting, tracking and engaging with the target (‘intelligent AWS’) may be seen as an ‘act’ of the weapon system for the purpose of legal responsibility. The essay focuses on the material act required for the commission of war crimes related to prohibited attacks in warfare. After briefly presenting the va
  
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• Putin’s Drive to Rewrite History Snares a Retired Lithuanian Judge

  04-01-2024 16:03 via nytimes.com
  A few years ago, Kornelija Maceviciene ruled against Soviet officers for a brutal crackdown on pro-independence protesters in her country in 1991. That has made her a target for a Russian court.
  
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• South Africa Accuses Israel of Genocide in U.N. Court

  30-12-2023 00:24 via nytimes.com
  Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the filing was a “despicable and contemptuous exploitation of the court.”
  
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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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• Autonomous Weapon Systems, Errors and Breaches of International Humanitarian Law

  20-10-2023 02:00
  AbstractAn error in the operation of an autonomous weapon system (AWS) results in civilians or civilian objects being attacked. In such situations, have civilians or civilian objects been ‘made the object of attack’, such that there is a breach of the rule prohibiting attacks against civilians or civilian objects? This question — which is important because of the high probability of such errors — forms the subject of this article. It argues that the rule prohibiting attac
  
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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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• Convicting Autonomous Weapons?Criminal Responsibility of and for AWS under International Law

  11-10-2023 02:00
  
  AbstractIf autonomous weapon systems (AWS) cause harm beyond their legitimate military use, e.g., by killing innocent civilians, the question arises as to who can be held responsible. Due to the great number of persons involved in the construction, programming, training, and deploying of AWS, a ‘responsibility gap’ has been diagnosed. As it is neither theoretically nor practically feasible to impose criminal responsibility on AWS themselves, various doctrines of international crimina
  
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• Exploring the Impact of Automation Bias and Complacency on Individual Criminal Responsibility for War Crimes

  22-09-2023 02:00
  
  AbstractWith advancing technology, complex decision-making in warfare, including targeting, is increasingly assisted by machines. Although involving humans in decision-making is often seen as a safeguard against machine errors, it does not always prevent them. Machines can make incorrect determinations or delay them when time is critical. In these cases, human operators, influenced by automation bias (excessive trust in machines’ determinations, despite the availability of contradicting or
  
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