Re-establishing the UN Special Committee Against Apartheid, this time in respect of the State of Palestine
Posted: 26 November, 2024 Filed under: Jaymion Hendricks, Yeabsira Teferi | Tags: apartheid, Committee on the Elimination on Racial Discrimination, discriminatory practices, International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, International Court of Justice, international law, military checkpoints, Occupied Palestinian Territory, oppression, racial segregation, roadblocks, Rome Statute, Special Committee against Apartheid, State of Israel, this time in respect of the State of Palestine, unlawful Leave a comment
Author: Jaymion Hendricks
Legal Advisor, International Law
In its landmark advisory opinion on 19 July 2024, the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”/ “the Court”) held that the State of Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) is unlawful under international law. Of particular importance was the Court’s finding that Israel is violating Article 3 of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (‘CERD’), which holds that “States Parties particularly condemn racial segregation and apartheid and undertake to prevent, prohibit and eradicate all practices of this nature in territories under their jurisdiction”.
Eritrean Independence: Form over substance
Posted: 10 November, 2015 Filed under: Lebogang Maxelegu | Tags: arbitrary arrests, Armed Struggle, detention, Eritrea, Ethiopian rule, human rights violations, independence, national conscription, oppression, PFDJ, refuge, revolution 1 Comment
Author: Lebogang Maxelegu
Assistant Researcher, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
Eritreans observed the 54th Anniversary of the Beginning of the Armed Struggle for Independence on 1 September 2015. While the success of the armed struggle in attaining independence from Ethiopian rule should have been a cause for celebration for the whole nation, it was instead characterised with mixed emotions.
On the one hand, the ruling party, the People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) and some Eritreans, embraced and glorified the country’s protracted 30 year war with Ethiopia-describing it as one of Africa’s formidable revolutions. On the other hand, many Eritreans, in particular those who fled, have by implication of their seeking refuge in other countries, expressed their discontentment with the current socio-political landscape in which widespread, systematic and gross human rights violations are perpetrated with impunity.
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