Genocide Convention

December 13, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

Turning human rights upside down

A new era might could see authoritarian states like China and Iran hauling liberal democratic nations before the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.

August 9, 2024 | |

Turkey Officially Requests to Join South African Genocide Case Targeting Israel at ICJ

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced on August 8 that his country had formally submitted a request to join South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ)...

May 29, 2024 | |

Israeli Embassy in Mexico City Attacked by Hamas Supporters as Government Requests to Join ICJ Case

Pro-Hamas protestors clashed with police officers outside the Israeli embassy in Mexico City on May 28. The protestors, many of whom were masked, lit fires and sprayed graffiti on...

May 24, 2024 | |

Top UN Court Calls for Israel to End Anti-Hamas Operations in Rafah

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations’ top court, on May 24 called for Israel to end its operations in Rafah, “which may inflict on the Palestinian group...

May 2, 2024 | |

Turkey Poised to Join South Africa’s Genocide Lawsuit Against Israel at ICJ

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced on May 1 that Turkey plans to join South Africa’s genocide complaint against Israel in the International Court of Justice...

April 12, 2024 | |

Germany Rejects Nicaragua’s ‘Biased’ ICJ Case

Germany roundly rejected Nicaragua’s accusation that it was facilitating Israel’s purported genocide in Gaza at an April 9 hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ)....

January 17, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

The blood libel at The Hague

Anti-Israeli genocidaires accuse Israelis of genocide

January 26, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

How “Never again!” became “never mind”

To the fashionably woke, Uyghur lives don’t matter

February 3, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Recalling the Holocaust is insufficient

The UN fails to name those threatening genocide or threatened by genocide

July 25, 2018 | Sheryl Saperia |

A Canadian Consensus on Iran?

During the 2015 election, the Liberals pledged to restore diplomatic relations with Iran, and until last month, the government consistently stuck to that message. However, on June 12, Prime Minis...

January 30, 2017 | Sheryl Saperia |

Using SEMA to advance the Canada-Iran relationship

When Parliament reconvenes on Jan. 30, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development will continue to review the Special Economic Measures Act (SEM...

April 2, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer FDD Policy Brief |

The Return of ‘Palestine 194’

In a snub to the U.S-led Palestinian-Israeli peace efforts yesterday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas...

August 29, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Ban Ki-moon Over Tehran

Proof – as if more were needed – that the UN is broken beyond repair.

August 23, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Iranians Incite Genocide; Israelis ‘Employ Invective’

Gosh, which is worse?

November 23, 2011 | |

Romney’s Iran Gaffe

Ahmadinejad is not a law-enforcement problem.

April 15, 2011 | Benjamin Weinthal Advocate |

Iran’s “Crimes Against Humanity”

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues his campaign to violently repress sexual minorities. “They asked me [at Columbia University in 2007] why you crack down on homosexua...

August 4, 2006 | TCS Daily |

No Justice, No Peace?

"No peace without justice" has become more than a pious mantra in contemporary international relations. Since the end of the Cold War, the establishment of mechanisms for legal accountability has...