Today is the one year deadline given by the UN General Assembly for withdrawal of Israel from all illegal settlements after last year’s historic ICJ ruling which found settlements illegal. What should happen now? I discuss in an opinion piece.
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This belated finding by the independent commission, must lead to immediate action by individual states and collectively through the UN, to stop Israel’s genocide, to urgently assist the people of Gaza and to ensure accountability. Will it happen?
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Detailed interview on the catastrophe in Gaza and West Bank and the urgent responsibilities of every State and of the international community, on Al Jazeera Mubasher.
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Interview in Arabic on Al Jazeera about the press release issued by me and fellow UN experts on the urgent need to dismantle the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and restore real aid flows to the famine-stricken people of Gaza.
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I condemn this executive order by the US President to criminalize homelessness in the US in violation of both US law and international law. I have condemned this approach already in a UN report last year and call on States in the US not to cooperate.
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#Guatemala: UN expert @balaraj.bsky.social calls for urgent moratorium on evictions until adequate legal protections can be guaranteed, urging an end to the widespread practice of violent & inhumane forced evictions.
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I welcome #France’s decision to recognize the State of Palestine. This is highly overdue and I urge all holdout states in the West to follow suit. That is the surest way to peace in the Middle East.
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Interview on Al Jazeera Mubasher on the catastrophic situation in Gaza
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Very much looking forward to my country visit to Guatemala!
#ZohranMamdani’s stunning victory yesterday in the NYC democratic primary rested primarily on one issue: the affordability crisis. Indeed as we see in so many cities like Berlin, affordability of housing and other rights is the main issue. See my report: docs.un.org/A/78/192
#India is leading the world in illegal home demolitions, especially affecting minorities and vulnerable groups. This is a national scandal - a gross violation of domestic and international law and must stop. My press release about the latest demolitions in #Gujarat.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Israel’s attack on Iran is a grave violation of international law including attacks on nuclear scientists at their homes. Israel is a serial violator of jus cogens norms and there must be meaningful sanctions and containment measures against it.
www.ejiltalk.org/is-israels-u...
More than 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza might be dead according to this analysis that relies on data from the Israeli IDF. Not surprising in the light of the Lancet report months ago that estimated the dead at 200,000. A monstrous genocide!
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The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Peoples’ Tribunal is out. The Tribunal is a milestone in the struggle towards justice for the Palestinians and for all of humanity.
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Deaths from Israel’s attacks on Gaza close to 62,000 as more than 14,000 people buried under the rubble are added. Every one of these lives deserves accountability and justice.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...
When States fail humanity, it is civil society that stands up, now for Palestinianians in Gaza through a People’s Tribunal, as it has for other victims of colonial wars of annexation and extermination. Guided by the indomitable Prof. Richard Falk.
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The Special Rapporteur on the right to food @MichaelFakhri writes in the @guardian: The GA must act to authorize peacekeepers to ensure aid delivery to Gaza. I have called on the GA before to act under the Uniting for Peace res. and fully endorse this.
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I cordially invite CSO representatives to a consultation for my next report to the UNGA on:
Land and the right to adequate housing
Thursday 29 May 2025, 3 PM CET (Geneva)
More info and registration ohchr.org/sites/default/…
New report in the @972mag on systematic destruction of homes in Gaza as the main strategy to commit genocide and annexation by making it uninhabitable for Palestinians. Western media - @FT @TheEconomist @guardian @Independent and @nytimes @washingtonpost @BBCWorld - wake up!
nterview on Al Jazeera Arabic about the Israeli evacuation order of al-Shifa hospital and attack on homes. And the unacceptability of Arab States’s arms purchases from the US while Palestinians are being eradicated with US weapons.
mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/ZPGEMP...
Home demolitions for suspects or even convicts are illegal as Indian Supreme Court has ruled. Terrorism suspects must be prosecuted and punished according to the law, not subject to collective punishment in act of rogue justice. India must stop this.
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My letter to the Government of Italy on Italian government’s troublesome and willful disregard of its binding international legal obligations is now public below. Forced evictions in violation of interim measures by the CESCR is illegal.
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I am honored to give this talk on academic freedom at the University of Chicago at this critical moment in the US and in so many other countries.
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I applaud you Senator as a constituent and as UN Special Rapporteur.
Glad to speak at the side event, “Rebuilding Gaza for Gazans” at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg. Urged urgent intervention before the genocide in Gaza results in total extermination or expulsion.
We are now in an age of barbarity and indecency. This extermination campaign is not being stopped by anyone.
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Interview in Arabic on the latest mass evacuation orders in Rafah and the breakdown of international law and order on Al Jazeera Mubasher
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Very concerning to see this colonial expansion of outposts and settlements into Syria and Lebanon like an ink blot spreading. Borders don’t mean anything anymore?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
My lecture and discussion at Carleton University, Canada - starts at 49:50.
www.youtube.com/live/ILM0Vc3... via @YouTube
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