Tomorrow join IAGS president Dr Melanie O'Brien at Human Rights Program for a talk on AUS war crimes. RSVP below ⬇️

Join us this Thursday, May 16 from 12:00-1:00pm in Mondale Hall for a lecture from Dr Melanie O'Brien titled 'Australian War Crimes Investigations.' More info and RSVP at: z.umn.edu/warcrimes

It is outrageous that the first person to be convicted and sent to prison in the Afghan Files saga, is the man who exposed the allegations of war crimes.
And not any of those who might have committed them.

BREAKING: UN Humanitarian Affairs chief Martin Griffiths says 'civilians in Gaza are being starved and killed and we are prevented from helping them'.

This evening, Israeli residents set fire twice to the perimeter of the UNRWA Headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem.

This took place while UNRWA and other UN Agencies’ staff were on the compound.
While there were no casualties among our staff, the fire caused extensive damage

A very welcome and strong condemnation of attacks against the Int'l Criminal Court from Josep Borrell Fontelles European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺:

'When the ICC indicted President Putin, we applauded....[If] we respect the ICC, it has to be in any case, on any occasion, with respect to anyone.' eeas.europa.eu/eeas/foreign-a…

I'll be giving a talk 16 May University of Minnesota Law School on #AUS #warCrimes investigations. This is a very interesting talk w/some surprise content, so come along if you want to hear all the dirt on what's going on w/these investigations! #intLaw #IHL law.umn.edu/events/austral…

'This morning is one of the darkest in this seven-month long nightmare. Now we see the beginning of a military incursion. Rafah is in the crosshairs.'
- UN Humanitarian

'Aid must flow. Hostages must be freed. #Rafah must not be invaded. Children must stop being killed.'
- UNICEF

Paying my respects to one of the most significant people in my field. #Lemkin , you would be proud to know how many people continue your work, and how, finally, all these years later, your #Genocide Convention is finally being used in earnest. #intLaw

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

Goldberg:'In the way we normally understand such concepts, Palestinian Gaza as a geographical-political-cultural-human complex no longer exists. #Genocide
is the deliberate annihilation of a collective or part of it...that’s what’s happening in #Gaza .' thepalestineproject.medium.com/yes-it-is-geno…

Sthg interesting re Israel working to block ICC arrest warrants is that it’s trying to make the ICC political, the very concept that ICC opponents accuse it of. Imagine if the same states found out that ICC hadn’t issued warrants due to pressure from states they don’t like…