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ICJ calls Israeli occupation of lands an illegal annexation and apartheid
The determination is the first time an international court weighed in on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.
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The determination is the first time an international court weighed in on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.
The justices cited warnings an offensive on Rafah will put 'hundreds of thousands of people at imminent risk of death.'
The resolution sponsored by Germany and Rwanda reflects an effort to remember the lessons of 20th century genocides.
ICJ justices heard arguments from South Africa calling on Israel to immediately withdraw its army from Gaza.
The ruling orders Israel to allow aid trucks loaded with food and supplies to enter Gaza unhindered "without delay."
The International Court of Justice heard testimony on the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of Palestinian territories.
The summit is focused on Europe's uncertain security, clouded by Russia's threat and America's political turmoil.
The ruling is the first of two that are expected this week from a decade of conflict-turned-war between Russia and Ukraine.
Justices at The Hague granted South Africa's request for provisional measures against the Israeli military in Gaza.
Though it cannot enforce its orders, the court issues advisory opinions that carry legal weight and moral authority.
Guyana, an impoverished former British colony, controls the Essequibo region and the US$1 billion a year it generates.
The election adds only the sixth female judge and denies Russia a seat for the first time in the court's 77-year history.
As climate litigation increases, the body of legal precedent grows, forming an increasingly well-defined field of law.
The European Court of Human Rights heard two climate cases brought by citizens against Swiss and French authorities complaining they must do more to reduce carbon emissions.
Prodded by Vanuatu and other nations, the U.N. General Assembly will ask the ICJ based in The Hague for an unprecedented legal opinion on nations' legal obligations to fight global warming – and the consequences if they don't.
The ICJ ordered Russia to halt its invasion of Ukraine in a legally binding decision that is mainly symbolic because there is no direct means of enforcing it.