1/ Launch of my Legal Opinion for the Myanmar Accountability Project @MyanmarAProject explaining why the National Unity Government of Myanmar has validly provided consent for the International Criminal Court to exercise jurisdiction #ICC#Myanmartinyurl.com/2p89jjwb
4/ Tomorrow, Friday 19 August 2022, 6.30pm Myanmar (noon UTC) a webinar will be held to present and discuss the Opinion and the case for accountability more generally. Registration link here: us06web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_…
5/ Speakers: @aung_myo_minn, NUG Minister for Human Rights; @waiwainu, Founder and Executive Director, Women’s Peace Network in Myanmar and former political prisoner; @AntoniaMulvey, Director Legal Action Worldwide
6/ Speakers continued: Richard Goldstone, former Chief Prosecutor of the ad hoc international criminal tribunals and Justice of the Supreme Court of South Africa; and myself.
7/ Article based on the Opinion, "The ICC Must Engage With Myanmar’s Democratic Government and Hold the Junta to Account" in The Diplomat thediplomat.com/.../the-icc-mu…
8/ Article authors: John Dugard, Emeritus Professor of Law @LeidenLaw and @WitsSchoolofLaw; former Ad Hoc Judge @CIJ_ICJ; former Member @UN International Law Commission and UN Special Rapporteur Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory @UN_SPExperts
9/ Authors cont.: Chris Gunness @MyanmarAProject (Director Myanmar Accountability Project); Tommy Thomas (former Attorney General of Malaysia); Yuyun Wahyuningrum @Wahyuningrum (Representative of Indonesia to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights) and myself
10/ Expert colleagues in international law who kindly endorsed the Opinion (thank you very much!):
a) @AakenAnne Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Public International Law and European Law, Hamburg University, former Vice President, @esil_sedi
11/ (endorsers continued)
b) Chaloka Beyani, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, @UN_SProcedures, Associate Professor of International Law @LSELaw and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Human Rights, LSE @LSEnews
12/ (endorsers continued)
c) @PLivinec, Professor of International Law and Director, Le CEDIN (Centre de droit international de Nanterre) de l'Université Paris Nanterre, Director of Studies, @ILA_official
13/ (endorsers continued)
d) @BourdonWilliam2, Lawyer at the Paris Bar, Founding President of Sherpa, President of PPLAF (Platform to Protect Whistle Blowers in Africa) @PPLAAF
14/ (endorsers continued)
e) Radhika Coomaraswamy, Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations @UN and UN Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict
15/ (endorsers cont.) f) @MarzukiDrsmn, Former Attorney-General of Indonesia, @UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in N Korea, Chair of the @UN_HRC Independent Intl Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar; Founder of the Foundation for Intl Human Rights Reporting Standards @FIHRRST
16/ (endorsers cont.) g) John Dugard, Emeritus Professor of Law @LeidenLaw and @WitsSchoolofLaw; former Ad Hoc Judge @CIJ_ICJ; former Member @UN International Law Commission and UN Special Rapporteur Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory @UN_SPExperts
17/ (endorsers cont.) h) Baltasar Garzón, Magistrate-judge, lawyer. Director of the legal office ILOCA SL (International Legal Organization for Cooperation and Development), Spain
18/ (endorsers cont.) i) @JaredGenser, human rights defender, Adjunct Professor of Law, @GeorgetownLaw j) Richard Goldstone, former Chief Prosecutor of the ad hoc international criminal tribunals and Justice of the Supreme Court of South Africa
19/ (endorsers cont.) k) @fredericmegret Professor of Law, Co-director, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, @LawMcGill; former Executive Board member, @esil_sedi; former Attaché and consultant @ICRC and French delegation, Rome Conference on the creation the ICC in 1998
20/ (endorsers cont.) l) Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus, @OpenSociety, founding Executive Director @hrw
22/ (endorsers cont.) n) Yasmin Sooka, Chair of the @UN Commission on Human Rights for the South Sudan; Executive Director, Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa; trustee, Desmond Tutu Peace Centre; former member, South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission
23/ (endorsers cont.) o) Tommy Thomas, former Attorney General of Malaysia
24/ (endorsers cont.) p) Nelum Deepika Udagama, Professor of Law, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and Former Chairperson, Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (2015-20)
25/ (endorsers cont.) q) @pal_wrange Professor of Public International Law, @Stockholm_Uni, Director of the @SCILJ_SU, member of the Swedish Government International Law and Disarmament Delegation, member @PCA_CPA, member of the Executive Board of @esil_sedi
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1/ New Policy Brief: bit.ly/ralph-wilde-pa…. This explains the relevance of international law to the question of whether and when the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza should end. Summary follows.
2/ The Palestinian people have the right of external self-determination in international law, a right which forms part of international human rights law. According to this right, the occupation should end.
3/ There is a widespread misconception that as far as international law is concerned, the realization of this – when it happens, and on what basis – depends on a peace agreement being reached between the Israelis and the Palestinians.