Debates over how to describe conflicts in Gaza, Myanmar and elsewhere are channeling a controversy as old as the word itself. The Genocide Convention emerged as an immediate response to World War II-today its being renegotiated to bring it up to date
South Africa’s experience with apartheid has given its foreign policy a uniquely moral frame.
The time has arrived to consider bolstering international institutions that can build a more peaceful world. The current presidential campaign provides an appropriate place for raising this issue. We have a personal stake in ensuring human survival.
When U.S. prerogatives diverge from international law, America has no problem violating it — all while declaring its violations to ultimately benefit global stability.
The hobbling of the Security Council, the UN agency tasked with enforcing international peace and security, bears the lion’s share of the responsibility for this weakness.
With the question of whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza now before the International Court of Justice, the Biden administration has struck a tone of glib dismissal. The administration’s posture of indifference strains credulity.
South Africa has filed a case at the main judicial body for the United Nations, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
Antonio Guterres warned of a deepening ‘catastrophe’ in Gaza as he called on the Security Council to act.
The occupation has been the vehicle to colonise, brutalise, arbitrarily arrest, detain and carry out summary executions against Palestinians. You can stand in solidarity with the Palestinians and still condemn the atrocities that Hamas committed.
Before October 7 Gaza received some 500 trucks of food and other supplies every day, including 45 trucks of fuel to power the strip’s cars, water desalination plants and bakeries. Women, children and elderly people are being killed – no one is spared
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