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…
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? — William Butler Yeats, The Second…
Israeli moves toward all out war in Gaza and Lebanon seem linked to wider dangers of a regional war with severe global…
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