Posted on August 25th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Was it for reasons of economy of scale that the UN decided to base the Hariri trial chambers in the Hague, in the Netherlands? That would put it near the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the International Criminal Court — not to mention the venerable International Court of Justice? Only [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, International Court of Justice - ICJ, International Law, International Tribunals, Lebanon
Posted on July 10th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Haaretz’s Akiva Eldar has written this week about two new UN reports on the Palestinian situation:
1. OCHA - The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
To fully appreciate this item, a little background — Kevin Kennedy is a former U.S. Marine, who became a “star” in Kofi Annan’s UN, and whose rise continues…]
“If it [...]
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Filed under: International Court of Justice - ICJ, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall, UN Humanitarian Efforts, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on May 10th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Despite the strong position taken by the International Court of Justice in the Hague in its July 2004 Advisory Opinion on The Wall, it seems that the idea of Walls has come into fashion. The Saudis are building a high-tech one to keep Iraqis out. The U.S. proposed to wall off its border [...]
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Filed under: International Court of Justice - ICJ, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall, The Hague
Posted on March 1st, 2007 by Marian Houk
At what was just a routinely-scheduled press conference with journalists on Wednesday, while she was visiting UNHQ/NY, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour of Canada (former judge, and former chief prosecutor at the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia) said a number of interesting things — all in response to questions from [...]
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Filed under: Former Yugoslavia, Guantanamo, Human Rights, International Court of Justice - ICJ, International Law, Iraq
Posted on February 26th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The BBC World Service had the first reports out of the Hague: “The UN’s highest court has cleared Serbia of direct responsibility for genocide in the 1990s Bosnian war. The International Court of Justice was ruling in the first case of a state charged with genocide. If Bosnia’s lawsuit had been successful it [...]
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Filed under: Former Yugoslavia, International Court of Justice - ICJ, The Hague
Posted on December 13th, 2006 by Marian Houk
The UN General Assembly’s Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) decided to inform the Assembly that it will cost $3.1 million to set up (in Vienna) a Register of Damages caused by Israel’s construction of a Wall in the occupied West Bank.  The Spokeswoman for the President of the General Assembly told journalists earlier this week that [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Court of Justice - ICJ, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall, UN General Assembly
Posted on December 6th, 2006 by Marian Houk
The UN General Assembly will vote on 15 December to authorize the costs, or “financial implications” of establishing a office to maintain the proposed register of damages caused by Israel’s construction of a Wall in the West Bank, which the UN considers occupied Palestinian territory. In July 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague handed [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Court of Justice - ICJ, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN General Assembly
Posted on October 28th, 2006 by Marian Houk
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The International Court of Justice in the Hague handed down a ruling on 9 July 2004 saying that the Barrier / Wall being constructed in the West Bank was illegal under international law. In August 2004, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution endorsing the ICJ ruling.
More than two years later, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan presented [...]
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Filed under: International Court of Justice - ICJ, Israel, Kofi Annan, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall, UN General Assembly, UN Secretary-General
