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Rights group sends urgent appeal to UN Special Procedures on intensified Yitzhar settler violence RAMALLAH, Wednesday, February 17, 2021 (WAFA) – The Ramallah-based Palestinian human rights organization, Al-Haq, today submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures on intensified violence by Israeli settlers from the illegal Yitzhar settlement in the north of the West Bank against Palestinians and their properties. Addressing five UN Special Rapporteurs, including the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 196...

  Implementation of the Geneva Resolution is an onerous task. It will encounter various challenges and dilemmas. It requires the establishment of institutional structures and national legislation to give effect to operative part of the Geneva Resolutions. Implementing legislation must not offend the 1978 Constitution and the 1976 Vienna Convention of the Law of Treaties (VCLT 1976)   The Geneva Resolutions The Geneva Resolution can be classified as a non-treaty instrument. It is different from a treaty in many respects (Anthony Aust – Modern Treaty Practice). It does not require the conse...

Q&A: Conflict in Ethiopia and International Law On November 4, 2020, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appeared on state television and acknowledged that he ordered the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) to commence operations against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in response to what he described as attacks by TPLF forces on Ethiopian military bases and federal forces in the regional capital of Mekelle, and at other camps in the Tigray region. The TPLF, the ruling party administering the northern region of Tigray in Ethiopia, acknowledged that it took over the assets o...