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CF Moran @cfsmoran.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
A very short read. Share early, share often. lithub.com/how-tom-stop...
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How Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia literally saved lives.
It’s unusual to encounter good news these days, particularly on social media. So I was delighted to come across this image on Bluesky earlier today, of a letter to the Times of London in reference …
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Janet H Anderson @janethanderson.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Lots of talk of keeping the ICC going at #ASP24 despite sanctions. But court’s issues extend well beyond the Washington pressures. www.justiceinfo.net/en/152952-ic...
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CF Moran @cfsmoran.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Lots on the table this week. Looking forward to the debate and to reading Dr Jiminez's book on the topic, published in just over a fortnight. opiniojuris.org/2025/12/01/t...
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The 24th Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute: Time to Act
[Ezequiel Jimenez has a PhD in international law (Middlesex University, United Kingdom), works at Amnesty International and is Senior Fellow at the Center for International Law Research and Policy.…
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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CF Moran @cfsmoran.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This needs to be shared widely, so please do repost. That aside, the lectures are wonderful and a really engaging critique of moral obligation in modern society.
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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of #Gaza civilians - “I feel like they’ve destroyed all my pride in being an Israeli – in being an #IDF officer,” Daniel says in the programme. “All that’s left is shame.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
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CF Moran @cfsmoran.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"Inclusion is about capability and perspective, not mere representation. Representation is important, but without reflecting on the quality of representation, the number of women sitting at the...table is pure performance." Elegant and effective, and more importantly, true.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 03/11/2025
Northern Ireland families are awaiting justice for crimes committed during the 1969 to 1998 conflict, @dooleydooley.bsky.social and @suchitauppal.bsky.social write. A legislative battle is brewing in the U.K. Parliament over efforts aimed at accountability. www.justsecurity.org/123679/legal...
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Legal Progress Stalls for Northern Ireland Families
The coming months will show whether the UK has the political will to deliver long-overdue truth and justice in Northern Ireland.
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CF Moran @cfsmoran.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Brilliant series. So good to hear from others who write so well.
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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Hundreds reportedly killed at Sudanese hospital as evidence of RSF atrocities mounts #ElFasher #Sudan #warcrimes www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Hundreds reportedly killed at Sudanese hospital as evidence of RSF atrocities mounts
Rapid Support Forces, which claimed control of El Fasher on Sunday, reportedly killed at least 460 people ‘in cold blood’
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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Deadly attacks. New displacement. Deepening hunger.   We need the violence in Sudan to stop, urgent humanitarian access, perpetrators held to account.   I'm allocating $20M to provide urgent life-saving food, health, and protection. I will brief Security Council this morning.
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"The Court found that Israel has a duty not to impede and to facilitate the humanitarian relief work of UNRWA and other organizations". This is beyond any reasonable disagreement. It is the law. Period. The Bottom Line of the ICJ’s UNRWA Advisory Opinion: www.ejiltalk.org/the-bottom-l... #Gaza
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CF Moran @cfsmoran.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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Dr Juliette McIntyre 🩷💚 🏳️‍🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Thank you to the lovely Asymmetrical Haircuts team for letting me hyperfixate at them!!
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International Nuremberg Principles Academy @nurembergacademy.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
📘 The Nuremberg Academy proudly contributes to “Nuremberg Principles and Ukraine: The Contemporary Challenges to Peace, Security and Justice” (@bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social, Bloomsbury Oct 2025). Feat. work by Prof. Dr Safferling @safferli.bsky.social, Dr Dittrich & K. Menon. 👉 bit.ly/4nFpgds
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Fionnuala NÍ Aoláin KC (Hons) @niaolainf.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Today thinking about the families of the hostages held in Gaza, the fragile hope of the return, the fears of loss, and the grief that accompanies great loss.
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Dr Juliette McIntyre 🩷💚 🏳️‍🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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Open Research, University of Aberdeen @openresearchuoa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Part of our mission to make scholarship available has to include making sure those works can technically be accessed into the future. So, we're excited to announce a new partnership with @jisc.bsky.social and Libnova for long term preservation of our digital archives www.abdn.ac.uk/news/24712/
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Preserving tomorrow's history today with new digital partnership
Books and manuscripts held in the University of Aberdeen's collections date back centuries.
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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
In this post @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social & I trace how the Starmer Government's repeatedly misconstrues its obligations under the Genocide Convention in #Gaza, hiding behind a Court judgement that is years away with a position that we call "legally illiterate" and "morally indefensible".
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
“The attack included thousands of killings, which were perpetrated consistently throughout the charged period.” #ICC releases charge sheet detailing 3 counts of crimes against humanity against former Philippines President Duterte over his “war on drugs”: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Rodrigo Duterte, former Philippines president, charged with crimes against humanity at ICC
Three charges against Duterte stem from his years-long campaign against drug users and dealers that rights groups say killed thousands
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CF Moran @cfsmoran.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Long overdue, and perhaps worth being mindful of Crawford's words from 1990(!), still be on point today: "For a Palestinian State to be properly described as "nasciturus", what is needed is statesmanship on all sides, and respect for the rights of the peoples and states of the region."
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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Hundreds of humanitarians killed this year. This is more than a statistical spike – it is normalization of violence against our community. As we open discussions during #UNGA, I urge leaders to stop this era of impunity. Each attack is an attack on all of us. Enough.
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CF Moran @cfsmoran.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
New post: "Nathalie Tocci on Courage, Strategy, and the Freedom of the Page” Tocci, European thought leader & Guardian columnist, has spent her career moving between policymaking & ideas 💡 Her lesson: policy and writing sharpen each other 🧵 
🔗 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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Etched in Marble: Nathalie Tocci on Courage, Strategy and the Freedom of the Page
Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 15/09/2025
By targeting Hamas leadership on Qatari soil, Israel has not only escalated the conflict but also shaken confidence in Doha’s role as a mediator.
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Israel’s strike on Qatar was a serious blow against diplomacy in the Middle East
By targeting Hamas leadership on Qatari soil, Israel has not only escalated the conflict but also shaken confidence in Doha’s role as a mediator.
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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.
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CF Moran @cfsmoran.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
'Clarity is risk.' catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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Etched in Marble: Simon Kuper on Clarity, Memory, and Why Writing Still Matters
Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
“Gaza’s famine is man-made. And those who are making it happen are doing their best to conceal their crime. The Israeli government is reading from the same playbook as many architects of calamity from the past 100 years.” - must read, by Alex de Waal 👇 observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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Those who cover up famine in Gaza use a familiar playbook
The Israeli government is using the same method as many architects of calamity from the past 100 years
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Dr Juliette McIntyre 🩷💚 🏳️‍🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I fleshed out a few of my thoughts about the comms from the ICJ to remove Judge Sebutinde and @verfassungsblog.de were kind enough to publish them: verfassungsblog.de/from-one-icj...
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From One ICJ to Another
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
My Substack on writing, Respect the Marble is back! 🎉 I’ll be launching several new things this autumn, outlined here: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/a-new-seas... A quick preview 👇 🧵
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A New Season for Respect the Marble
Introducing "Etched in Marble: Conversations with Writers" & "Sunday Writer's Digest"
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Eliav Lieblich @eliavl.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Earlier this week, we sent an urgent letter to Israeli authorities expressing grave concerns regarding the plan to expand the hostilities in Gaza, as reflected in statements by the Minister of Defense. The list of signatories reflects a broad consensus among local international law academics.
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Luigi Prosperi @luigiprosperi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
ChatGPT has taught a guy with suicidal tendencies how to end his life. I hope his relatives will sue OpenAI out of existence.
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International Committee of the Red Cross @icrc.org · 26/08/2025
📍Gaza | It is unacceptable for a health facility like Nasser Medical Complex to be damaged in a strike and for medical personnel, journalists, patients & first responders to be killed and injured. Medical facilities, civilians, journalists & first responders must be protected.
Nasser Medical Complex (NMC) is one of the last major hospitals still operating in southern Gaza, and provides critical and specialized medical care to thousands of patients in an area where few medical facilities remain amid ongoing hostilities.  For a health facility like NMC to be damaged in a strike on Monday morning, and for medical personnel, journalists, patients and first responders to be killed and injured as a result of this, is unacceptable.   Such strikes cause death and destruction, and jeopardize vital lifelines for patients who have few sanctuaries left. NMC is a referral hospital for the Red Cross Field Hospital and other medical units.   It is crucial to guarantee its continued operation and accessibility for both medical personnel and patients.  We reiterate that under international humanitarian law, medical facilities, civilians, and first responders must be respected and protected. All feasible steps must be taken to support their work and ensure their safety.   We urgently call for the respect and protection of those who play essential roles in safeguarding  life and dignity amidst armed conflict.
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Fionnuala NÍ Aoláin KC (Hons) @niaolainf.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Those who report without fear or favor are targeted consistently in Gaza. No war like this, no end in sight. www.instagram.com/p/DN020Hj0hQ...
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magnumphotos on Instagram: "As of today (August 26, 2025) the Committee to Protect Journalists lists at least 189 journalists and media workers killed in Gaza …"
As of today (August 26, 2025) the Committee to Protect Journalists lists at least 189 journalists and media workers killed in Gaza (CPJ public dataset, Gaza tab; retrieved August 25, 2025, 10:30 a.m. EDT). CPJ has determined 26 journalist and media-worker killings to be deliberate “murders” by Israeli forces, in cases documented in Gaza and southern Lebanon, and is investigating at least 20 additional cases that show signs of possible targeting. Journalists in Gaza continue to report under the declared “complete siege” (announced on October 9, 2023).⁠⁠We recall: UN Security Council Resolutions 1738 (2006) and 2222 (2015) on the protection of journalists in situations of armed conflict, which condemn attacks on the press, reaffirm journalists’ civilian status, and call on States to end impunity and prosecute those responsible for serious violations.
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
With news that Israel is calling up 60,000 reservists for its ongoing war on Gaza, states with dual nationals should be unequivocal: war crimes & crimes against humanity will not be tolerated and anyone who commits them will be investigated and prosecuted. justiceinconflict.org/2025/08/11/t...
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Catching perpetrators to prosecute them abroad: could piecemeal justice contribute to comprehensive accountability for atrocities committed in Gaza?
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&nbsp…
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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
It is scandalous that 🇪🇺 has still not invoked the blocking statute. 6 ICC judges, 3 ICC prosecutors, & 1 UN special rapporteur have now been targeted with this lawlessness. 3 abandoned by the 🇪🇺 of which they are citizens (ICC judges Guillou 🇫🇷 & Hohler 🇸🇮; UN SR Albanese 🇮🇹)
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The White House has sanctioned Canadian national & #ICC Judge Kimberly Prost, among others. Will FM @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social protest this move? These are not normal times. Appeasing Trump is not worth abandoning our principles & commitment to the rule of law. www.icc-cpi.int/news/icc-str...
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The ICC strongly rejects new US sanctions against Judges and Deputy Prosecutors
The International Criminal Court deplores the announcement of new designations for sanctions by the US administration against ICC Judges Kimberly Prost (Canada), Judge Nicolas Guillou (France), Deputy...
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Open Research, University of Aberdeen @openresearchuoa.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Continuing our series of #BackToSchool resources: @forrt.bsky.social have many excellent resources on teaching and mentoring students in Open Research practices, including easy to incorporate materials, assessments, and lessons. Check some of them out here: forrt.org/adopting/
A woman and several younger women are wearing lab PPE and looking at equipment with a laboratory
Image by: Argonne National Laboratory, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
"To generate knowledge in the context of hunger is to think through pain. To teach students who have not eaten and still tell them their voices matter. To insist, against all odds, that Gaza still thinks, still questions, still creates." "That, in itself, is an act of resistance."
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right): -Anas al-Sharif (correspondent) -Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator) -Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist) -Mohammed Noufal (camera operator) -Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)
a young man holds a young boy and girl in front of rubble a man holds a microphone with an al jazeera logo while wearing a vest with the word press on ita young man in glasses wearing a protective vest with the word press on it leans against a car a collage shows three young men smiling
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
In the midst of terror & atrocities, they reported. While being threatened by Israel, they reported. As dozens of their colleagues were killed, they reported. Until their last breaths, they reported. Their targeted killing while reporting must be investigated as a war crime.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Diane Marie Amann @dianemarieamann.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Bottom line obv but having trouble with ‘recognition purely a symbol’ framing. Maybe so in the sense that states ‘artificial persons’. But recognition of one by another is precursor to relations - including lawmaking via treaties - between each other as recognised equals.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
"French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza." stunning. apnews.com/article/fran...
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French President Macron says France will recognize Palestine as a state
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 23/07/2025
Since the start of the Gaza war, leading Israeli legal scholars have written numerous letters raising concerns over grave international law violations. We are publishing these letters for the first time in a collected English edition, with a summary by Kai Ambos. verfassungsblog.de/internationa...
Quote: “We publish these documents also to make clear that we – as international lawyers – are all together in the struggle for international law, in Gaza and beyond.”
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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Do not look away.
hearing the same story from all the patients I've treated and operated on.
Their families, and indeed medical and nursing colleagues of mine in Gaza who have been to these food distribution
points to get food for themselves. And the story is the same from all of them - they're being shot by Israeli soldiers or by quadcopters which are the remote drones being controlled by the Israelis and they're been shot in multiple different body parts. And there seems to be a clustering of different body parts on particular days. So one day, they're coming in having been shot in the abdomen. Another day they're coming in having being shot in the head or the neck. Last Saturday we had four young teenage males, all who came in at the same time, having been shots in the testicles.So there's a very clear pattern and it's almost as if a game is being played that today it's gonna be the head, tomorrow it's going to be the abdomen and these injuries are devastating. I had a 12-year-old boy die on the operating table the other day from a bullet. He'd been shot by an Israeli soldier at a food distribution point and had been shot through the aorta. So appalling injuries the like of which I would never have
imagined could have happened if I were not seeing this with my own eyes.it's terrible, the malnutrition. This is my third trip to Gaza. I've called this out on both my previous trips, but it's much worse now.
And I've seen it in many of the adult patients I've been operating on. They're coming in malnourished, so their ability for their tissues to heal is severely impaired. And we're operating on sometimes very major injuries, but injuries which they'd have a very, very high chance of surviving with appropriate surgery if they were not malnourished. And of course, we've got no nutritional support to give them in hospitals.On the paediatric and tend to care unit, the lack of feed is dire. On the neonatal, I mean, they've been four premature babies who've died in recent weeks,
purely because of malnutrition. Their mothers were too malnourished to
breastfeed them and there was no formula feed to give them. And formula feed is being denied, they're not getting any formula feed in. Some of my American medical colleagues had brought formula feed into Gaza but it was all confiscated at the border. The malnutrition I'm seeing is terrible and children and adults are dying as a result
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid
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CF Moran @cfsmoran.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
There are so many elements of IHL and ICL that aren't paid enough attention, and this is unquestionably one of them. Taking children so that they don't remember who their parents are, severing a formative relationship at a critical moment, is unspeakably cruel. May they be returned.
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Our symposium on the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic has been published in the Journal of International Criminal Justice. Jérôme de Hemptinne, Patryk Labuda, Foreword. A Decade of Hybrid Justice in the Central African Republic: academic.oup.com/jicj/advance...
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Foreword
As the International Criminal Court (ICC) faces mounting pressure and scepticism from states, localized justice mechanisms are playing an increasingly vita
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