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(April 5) — Richard Falk argues that a Palestinian victory in the legitimacy war with Israel would not necessarily produce the desired…
Richard Falk
Richard Anderson Falk (born November 13, 1930) is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, and Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor's Chairman of the Board of Trustees. He is the author or coauthor of over 20 books and the editor or coeditor of another 20 volumes. In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Since 2005 he chairs the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
“So why did the Israeli government boycott the commission? The real answer is quite simple: they knew full well that the commission,…
For the first time since the establishment of Israel in 1948 the government is facing serious allegations of war crimes from respected…
Riz Khan speaks to Richard Falk, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, about whether Israel has committed…
1. This statement focuses on the impact of Israel’s continuing Gaza military campaign, initiated on 27 December 2008, on the humanitarian situation…
For eighteen months the entire 1.5 million people of Gaza experienced a punishing blockade imposed by Israel, and a variety of traumatizing…
The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions,…
Earlier this month, Israeli authorities deported Professor Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, who…
(December 20, 2008) — On December 14, I arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Israel to carry out my UN role as special rapporteur on the Palestinian…
26 August 2008 — The confrontation over South Ossetia represents a collision of US and Russian geopolitical logics which poses great dangers for regional…