The ICC’s double standard in the treatment of Ukraine and Palestine is largely due to political coercion by the U.S., which isn’t even a party to the court's Rome Statute, writes Marjorie Cohn.
By Marjorie Cohn
Truthout
On March 17, a little more than one year after Russia’s invasion of Uk
Train derailments, attacks on power substations, lasers directed at aircraft, firebombing pro-life pregnancy centers, a communist-inspired Antifa attack on a police facility in Atlanta, and now a transgender killer at a Christian school.
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary Lawlor has urged the Philippine government to speed up the Human Rights Defenders Protection Bill as a show of its commitment to human rights treaties and standards.
The Pentagon Papers whistleblower, who has a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, is urging a ceasefire in Ukraine. "This is not a species to be trusted with nuclear weapons," he tells Marjorie Cohn.
By Marjorie Cohn
Truthout
The legendary Daniel Ellsberg has been diagnosed with pancreatic
By preventing a U.N. Security Council vote on Israel’s illegal settlements, Marjorie Cohn says Biden failed to demonstrate even the modicum of reason exhibited by the Obama-Biden administration.
By Marjorie Cohn
Truthout
As the new right-wing Israeli regime ramps up its oppression of