My post with Sebastian VM on #WesternSahara: does the Commission's new agreement respect the requirements established by the #CJEU in October 2024? In short: nope!

Morocco using economic clout to strengthen grip on disputed Western Sahara territory theconversation.com/morocco-usin... @ampelliconi.bsky.social & @victorkattan.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com

Morocco is entrenching its control of Western Sahara, or what it calls the ‘Southern Provinces’.

When you'll see the wonderful scenery of the Sahara desert in Christopher Nolan's new movie on The Odyssey, remember that it's the land of the indigenous group of the Saharawi people. Read this piece coauthored with the fantastic @ampelliconi.bsky.social For more info on our project see below

This article is part of our @britishacademy.bsky.social - @leverhulme.ac.uk Project on Demographic Engineering and Apartheid on Western Sahara, and we thank our research assistants Beya Mousli and @meriem-naili.bsky.social for their very valuable help. More to come from the four of us 🔜!

Thanks to @us.theconversation.com for giving @victorkattan.bsky.social and I the chance to write about the #WesternSahara dispute amid changes in the UK policy, the investment race ahead of #FIFA2030 World Cup, and Trump's renewed disregard for international law theconversation.com/morocco-usin...

Breaking News: President Trump said he was taking control of the police in Washington, D.C., and deploying 800 National Guard troops there in response to “out of control” crime — even though violent crime in the city has fallen. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/3H9yVcu

A reminder that this is tomorrow

Trump wants to start a #war against Latin American countries like Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela & Haiti. Absurd, extreme, yet not unpredictable given the US decades-long double standard on the law of use of force, anticipatory self-defense & unable or unwilling doctrine www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

If any government was serious about reducing undocumented working they'd provide people seeking asylum with the right to work, which has cross party support, helps people rebuild lives faster and could generate £8 billion pa for the government in reduced expenditure and increased tax revenue. 2/2

In case you missed it last night, our president, popular and beloved Michael D. “Miggeldy” Higgins, called for the UNSG to bypass the UNSC and call for a Chapter VII intervention in Gaza (and this isn’t the first time he’s called for intervention btw) www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250804-iri...

#webinar: Climate Mobility in Advisory Opinions - join the @icon-s.bsky.social interest group on #climate change and #migration on 12 August, 3PM CET for a discussion with @profjmcadam.bsky.social (UNSW) Lena Riemer (CEU) @fnlux.com (CGRS) Junecynthia Okelo (PALU), moderated by Selman Aksünger (UM)

Al-Haq Condemns Israel’s Escalation of Annexationist Policies and Practices, following the Israeli Knesset’s overwhelmingly approval of a motion intending to unlawfully annex the occupied West Bank www.alhaq.org/advocacy/266...

The @icon-s.bsky.social IG on Climate Change & Migration is organising a webinar to unpack #climate #mobility in the advisory opinions by ICJ, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the request to the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights. Stay tuned! www.icon-society.org/climatechang...

"follow in France's footsteps..."

Rachel Bryce and I had a look at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' advisory opinion on #climatechange for The Climate Mobility Community Action Network. We focused particularly on what the Court had to say about #climate #mobility and related state obligations cmcanetwork.com/primer-clima...

Rachel Bryce and I had a look at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' advisory opinion on #climatechange for The Climate Mobility Community Action Network. We focused particularly on what the Court had to say about #climate #mobility and related state obligations cmcanetwork.com/primer-clima...

Good lord, I thought this was from the Onion… Nope. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Listening to great presentations at this conference just now. This is the second year @uniofnottingham.bsky.social organizes what promises to become a flagship yearly conference on international criminal justice

A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.

I am sincerely struggling to believe it but apparently this *is* the official letter from the US to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu about upcoming 30% tariffs on European products

Brave and important warning by a group of Israeli scholars regarding "the plan to concentrate the population of Gaza in a so-called 'humanitarian city'": "If implemented, the plan would constitute a series of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and . . . could amount to the crime of genocide."

I know everything else is in flames too but this is just (additional) pure madness

Last week, I taught a master class on Forgotten #Atrocities at the Geoffrey Nice Foundation's summer school on Mass Atrocities at the Inter University Centre Dubrovnik. Seeing many students engaging in the fight against international crimes sparks some hopes in these horrible times we're living.

NEW: Immigrants complain of inhumane conditions at ICE holding cells in NYC. No showers or changing clothes. Sometimes only one meal per day. Over 100 people in small rooms. Sleeping on benches, the floor, or sitting up, due to lack of space. gothamist.com/news/theyre-...

My government is imposing sanctions on a UN mandate holder for doing her job, including calling on the ICC to do its job: holding perpetrators of international crimes accountable for their actions. This is behavior worthy of a crime family, not a member of the United Nations.

Weirdly I'm exposed to a lot of US politics and images and I'm thinking that the literal only time I was pictured with (wrapped in) an Italian flag was when I was 12, Italy just won the world cup, and I wanted to impress a boy from my school who was celebrating in the square

Helena Kennedy was on an ICC panel that advised a warrant for Netanyahu. She had been reluctant to say Israel had crossed the high legal bar for genocide: "it's not genocide but it is crimes against humanity? You think that makes it sound okay?" She now says the bar is crossed.

Another thing I'll never understand is why someone with a "laptop job" would not be morally allowed to want better working conditions for manual labour workers??

It sounds somehow similar to the Italy-Albania deal l, where Italy maintained full responsibility and jurisdiction over the asylum processing detention facilities

This is stomach churning. The details of Israel’s future for the few remaining souls of Gaza is the slow and industrial death of internment www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Forget the illegality. You don't even need one semester of law school to realize that. Above all, the fact that in 2025 a defense minister of a sovereign state feels comfortable even saying such a thing out loud is a sign of a world utterly and completely broken.

"Defense Minister Israel Katz said Monday that he has instructed the IDF to prepare a plan to establish a "humanitarian city" on the ruins of Rafah" "the plan envisions moving 600,000 Palestinians ... into the new zone after security screening. Once inside, residents would not be allowed to leave"

what stage of capitalism is this

My paper on #WesternSahara "The Front Polisario II Decision of The Court of Justice of the European Union and the Right to Self-Determination of the Sahrawi People" is now available on SSRN (this is an unofficial English version of the Italian paper below) 👉 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Politico - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was illegaly deported by the Trump administration, details his mistreatment in a Salvadoran prison, claiming he suffered "severe beatings," sleep deprivation, malnutrition and other forms of torture at the hands of his jailers.

We now have a concentration camp in Florida. Stop pretending any of this is normal. If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person. Be human.

Mattias Kumm on @verfassungsblog.de: "Might there be a link between the need to raise defense spending and the casual disregard for core norms of international law by NATO’s protagonists?" ettlo.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/6rq...

More than 400 people in Gaza have now been killed trying to reach food at sites run by the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’. “The attempt to survive is being met with a death sentence,” says Jonathan Whittall, UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA). news.un.org/en/story/202...

The inaugural ballot for the Falepili Mobility Pathway will open to registrations from Tuvaluan citizens today, enabling up to 280 Tuvaluans each year to live, work and study in Australia www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/pen...

Saudi Arabia has executed journalist Turki Al-Jasser after seven years behind bars. He was arrested for his posts on Twitter exposing the corruption within the Saudi regime. apnews.com/article/saud...

I was reading this all seriously concerned about the quick escalation of fascist in the US and then I arrived to the point "they believe in ... transgender for everybody" 😂 are we living a parody reality

excited and quite nervous to be speaking at this event among scholars of such calibre! I'll be speaking about the relationship between forcible transfer, demographic changes, genocide, and self-determination

A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.

Shameful. Ryan Air flying to Dakhla? Remembering Hassana Al Wali, political prisoner in the Dakhla 'black prison', who died in 2015 after a hunger strike to expose his torture for his role in Arab Spring uprising in defence of Saharawi independence.

I loved my first Oxford Pride! Drumming. Dancing. Community. Queer joy! Particular solidarity to our trans siblings 💙 Cis women, do sign this letter in support of the trans community. www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

The UK has now recognized Morocco's Autonomy Plan and, as such, sovereignty over Western Sahara, in exchange for business licenses, demonstrating once again (if anyone was doubting it) that economic interests prevail over human rights and international law www.reuters.com/world/africa...

👉 I encourage you to read this brilliant piece on the forgotten conflict in Western Sahara by Dr. Andrea Maria Pelliconi, Lecturer in Human Rights Law & Global Justice at the University of Southampton in @opiniojuris.bsky.social

"We must absolutely let go of the illusion that legal work today rests on solid footing. It doesn’t. We need new tools and new frameworks... finding a strategic combination between an application of the existing rules and a fundamental reinvention."

"What’s clear is this: both Germany’s responsibility under international law for arms exports to Israel and the potential criminal liability of individuals are of serious concern." (interview with Kai Ambos) Quite the shift in German academia - AND YET ... (1/2) verfassungsblog.de/german-offic....