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Brussels Court Rules: Some Colonial Crimes May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity
On December 2, 2024, Brussels’ Court of Appeal found the Belgian State guilty of crimes against humanity for the abduction of mixed-race children during the colonial rule in…
Sudan v UAE: Where Legal Categories could have met Fluid Identities
Sudan v. United Arab Emirates is no more before the International Court of Justice. Not only did the Court reject Sudan’s request for provisional measures against the UAE…
South Korea’s Plan to Compensate Victims of Forced Labour Employed in Japanese Factories During Colonial Rule: A Step Forward for Peaceful Relations, but not for Victims’ Rights
On 6 March 2023, the Republic of Korea, in the person of the Minister for Foreign Affairs Park Jin, announced a plan for South Korea to compensate South…
Belgium’s return of Lumumba’s tooth: A new moment for anti-colonial struggles?
June 2022 was marked by a critical event in South-North relations: Belgium returning a tooth to Congo. As trivial as it may sound, the return of the gold-crowned…
EJIL: The Podcast! Expands
After 6 trial podcasts initiated by Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb, in which they, their guests and an EJIL editor in chief, discussed issues ranging from…
Is Canada Internationally Responsible for Genocide?
Commissioned by the Canadian government in 2016, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls delivered its final 1,200-page report last week. The report…
ICJ Delivers Chagos Advisory Opinion, UK Loses Badly
Earlier this afternoon the ICJ delivered its Chagos advisory opinion. Briefly, the Court found that the separation of the Chagos archipelago from the British colony of Mauritius was…
Can the International Court of Justice Decide on the Chagos Islands Advisory Proceedings without the UK’s Consent?
As Marko has noted in this post, last week Thursday, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution requesting the International…
ICJ Advisory Opinion Request on the Chagos Islands
Yesterday the UN General Assembly voted, by 94 to 15 with 65 states abstaining, to issue a request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice…