UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay publicly supported the final report of the UN Fact Finding Mission of the Gaza Conflict on Wednesday, calling its conclusions sound. The report, originally...
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UN chief unsure whether Israeli, Palestinian war crimes reports meet UN mandate
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said Thursday that it is unclear whether Israel and Palestine have fully met UN demands to set up a commission to investigate war crimes that may occurred during the...
Israel military officials disciplined for exceeding authority in Gaza offensive
Two high-ranking Israeli military officers have been disciplined for firing shells into a populated area of the Gaza strip during last year's Operation Cast Lead , it was revealed Monday. The information was contained in a 46-page report...
Israel rights increasingly granted only conditionally: report
Many rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories are granted only conditionally according to a report released Sunday by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) . The report found that...
Rights group says Israel-Palestinian conflict claimed almost 9,000 lives in twenty years
Marking its own 20th anniversary, Israeli human rights group B'Tselem claimed Sunday that almost 9,000 people have been killed in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians since 1989. A majority of the deaths...
UN General Assembly adopts resolution requiring independent Gaza investigations
The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution giving Israel and Palestine three months to conduct independent investigations into possible war crimes committed during last winter's Gaza conflict . The General Assembly voted 114-18...
JURIST Guest Columnists Laurie Blank of Emory Law's International Humanitarian Law Clinic and Gregory Gordon of the University of North Dakota School of Law say that the most glaring failure of the controversial Goldstone Commission Report on the Gaza conflict...
EU's lifting of sanctions against Uzbekistan undermines its credibility on human rights
Veronika Szente Goldston : "With its decision to lift the remaining sanctions against Uzbekistan despite Tashkent's atrocious rights record, the EU has effectively abandoned any credible effort to achieve human rights...
Israel government to form task force to respond to UN Gaza report
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday announced the formation of a task force to respond to the Goldstone Report , which accused both Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas fighters of...
Israel deputy PM calls for internal Gaza war crimes investigation
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor called Wednesday for an independent Israeli investigation into the war crimes allegations detailed in the Goldstone report , which accuses Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas ...