The mission to civilise (colonial) international law
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RECENT NEWS ON RUSSIAN GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE
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Creating a Shared Language of Genocide Prevention Across the Globe
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A legal architecture built to buttress the colonial world order, international law continues to be weaponised against the dispossessed to...
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Violent Israeli Settlers Are Starting to Resemble the KKK
How is it that this new antisemitism enjoys the support and backing of the Jewish state? At the end of June 2018, Yousef Azzeh, a...
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Amnesty report on Israeli ‘apartheid’ garners bipartisan US fury
Advocates say despite Congressional leaders’ vehement opposition, ‘apartheid’ charge against Israel will not go away. In an era of...
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Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity
Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, Amnesty International said today...
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Israel calls on Amnesty not to release apartheid report
Israel on Monday called on Amnesty International not to publish an upcoming report accusing it of apartheid, saying the conclusions of...
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States weigh a raft of proposed laws to limit race, sexuality lessons in schools
The explosion of bills — tracked in a new analysis by PEN America — is led by conservative lawmakers in GOP-controlled state...
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A Hebrew Teacher Called Herself an Anti-Zionist. She Was Fired.
A complaint arguing that a Reform synagogue violated New York labor law could point toward a new strategy for Palestinian rights...
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There's a Mass Palestinian Grave at a Popular Israeli Beach, Veterans Confess
The Israeli veterans of the 1948 battle at Tantura village finally come clean about the mass killing of Arabs that took place after the...
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What happens when isolation goes beyond a pandemic?
Brazilian photographer Raphael Alves has been covering the COVID-19 pandemic in his home state of Amazonas since their first lockdown in...
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Indigenous Groups in U.S. Have Been Leaders in Pandemic
Why are reservations still among deadliest places to get sick with COVID-19? Few communities in North America fought COVID-19 with as...
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