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Centering accountability for atrocities: Why Lebanon should (finally) join...
Destruction in Lebanon (Photo: AFP / Getty Images) “We are going to do what we did in Gaza.” That’s how a senior Israeli official described the Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon. The threat is real....
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The strongest voice in the West for the universal application of...
The following is a guest post by Thomas Obel Hansen, who is is the Beatriz Galindo Distinguished Professor with the Department of International Law, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; he has a research...
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More of the same, or changes on the way? For the first time in a decade, the...
People in Gaza flee ongoing violence (Photo: Reuters) Atrocities in Sudan, Gaza, and Ukraine raise a question: do people in countries far away, like Canada, have a role in addressing the suffering of...
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We need to talk about the “International Stabilization Force”: Canada and...
Displaced civilians return to the North of the Gaza Strip (Photo: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters) As the first stage of the peace plan for Gaza takes shape amidst reported breaches of the fragile agreement...
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Canada and allies recognize Palestine: what does it mean, what does it...
(Photo: CTV) Amidst the atrocities, annexation efforts, and ignored warnings to stop both, it became impossible to defend the status quo. So, on 21 September 2025, Canada joined 150 other states –...
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An Inversion of Pariah Status: How Washington is undermining the UN General...
Victor Peskin joins JiC for this guest post on the upcoming United Nations General Assembly. Victor is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics & Global Studies at Arizona State University...
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Catching perpetrators to prosecute them abroad: could piecemeal justice...
Graffiti in Vancouver, Canada (Artist: Tabs / Photo: Mark Kersten) They thought they’d enjoy the festival, maybe a waffle and a Hoegaarden. Instead, the two Israeli soldiers were detained and...
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To understand Genocide in Gaza and elsewhere, we need to talk about it as a...
Palestinians, including children, seeking food in Rafah, Gaza, February 2024 (Photo: Fatima Shbair/AP) A growing consensus of international and Israeli human rights organizations, editorial boards,...
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Sifting through speculation: What we do and don’t know about Canada’s...
A Palestinian boy and Israeli soldier in front of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, in 2004 (Photo: Justin McIntosh CC) In the wake of the recent revelation that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)...
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Courts in Conversation: The International Criminal Court, the International...
The following essay examines the relationship between the ICJ and the ICC, at a time when both courts have increasingly found themselves seized of the same situations of mass atrocity crimes,...
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There must be consequences: Accountability for war crimes can help stop...
Dr Suleiman Qaoud at the Rantisi Specialist Hospital after Israeli attacks on the facility on 6 November 2023 (Photo: Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera) The doctors assumed that a well-marked hospital...
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“It is time for the further concrete action that has been promised”: an Open...
(Photo: AP) The following is an open letter to Canadian PM Mark Carney, written (in both English and French) by 412 Canadian legal, human rights, social justice, international relations, diplomatic,...
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An Accountability Game-Changer? Canada opens structural investigation into...
(Photo: Mohammed Zaanoun; Medical Aid Palestine) Canadian authorities are conducting a structural investigation into war crimes and other atrocities committed in the Israel-Palestine war. First...
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It’s all about control: U.S. sanctions against the International Criminal...
(Photo: AP) The Trump administration’s Executive Order issuing sanctions against staff of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have been called many things: vindictive, disgraceful, as well as an...
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Trump’s Gaza “Plan” would mean committing every core international crime
(Photo: AP) It is hard to keep track of the number of international crimes being proposed in Washington as a response to the destruction of Gaza. There are solid arguments to be made that President...
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Canada should Recognize Palestine, Now: My Speech to the House of Commons...
Dear JiC readers: I had the honour and opportunity to present my views to the Canadian House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on 29 October. A video of...
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Justice for the Disappeared in Gaza: It’s Time to Investigate Enforced...
A mass burial in Gaza (Photo: Reuters) In late September 2024, a container was brought into Gaza from Israel on a truck. Inside were the bodies of eighty-eight Palestinians killed during Israel’s...
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Productive Ambiguities? The International Court of Justice on Israel’s...
Kerstin Bree Carlson joins JiC for this guest-post on the ICJ’s decision on Israel’s military operations in Rafah. Kerstin is associate professor at Roskilde University and The American University of...
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ICC warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders won’t bring peace. But it’s beyond...
Wreckage following airstrikes in Jabalia, Gaza (Photo: AFP / Getty) Whenever the International Criminal Court (ICC) opens an investigation into an ongoing war, versions of the following question will...
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The Ceasefire Resolution at the UN Security Council: Why the U.S. Position is...
The following is a guest post by Thomas Obel Hansen. Thomas is the Maria Zambrano 2023-24 Distinguished Researcher with the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) and a Senior Lecturer in Law with...
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