Tag: Ban Ki-Moon
How Turkey’s Reconciliation Deal with Israel Harms the Palestinians
By signing the reconciliation agreement with Israel, Turkey has betrayed the Palestinians and made itself complicit in Israel’s occupation regime.
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Richard Falk: An Open Letter to Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon protests Israel attacking him for condemning the occupation, but has himself attacked the messenger on Israel’s behalf politically expedient.
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Omar Bashir Has Left the Building
To salvage any sort of credibility and to begin to dispense justice, the ICC could issue arrest warrants for counterparts of Bashir—say, Netanyahu.
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The UN’s Sri Lanka Strategy and Its Implications for International Law
I have in this paper argued that there is a change in strategy in the UN’s “accountability” campaign with respect to Sri Lanka, and that this change in strategy now places Sri Lanka in a legally perilous position at the upcoming March 2014 sessions of the UNHRC, where a resolution authorizing war crimes investigations will most likely be passed.
Read MoreSyria: Prospects for Geneva-2
With a view to end the bloodshed in Syria, the broad-based Geneva-2 United Nations peace conference opened at Montreux in Switzerland on January 22
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