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UN compares UK’s Palestine Action ban with human rights restrictions in Russia

UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights

The Independent UK

Albanese urged to end ‘double standard’ on Israel after UN commission finds genocide occurring in Gaza

Human rights experts and crossbench politicians call on Labor to ‘put its money where its mouth is’ and apply similar sanctions on Israel as on Russia

The Guardian - AU

Australia must curb imports from occupied Palestinian territories due to ICJ ruling, UN legal expert says

Australia weighs how to vote in UN general assembly resolution following international court of justice’s advice

The Guardian - AU

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‘AI-assisted genocide’: Israel reportedly used database for Gaza kill lists

Two Israeli media outlets report Israeli military’s use of AI-assisted system called Lavender to identify Gaza targets.

Al Jazeera

Q&A: UN expert on Australia citizenship-stripping plan and ‘legal fiction’

Politicians around the world want the power to revoke citizenship but an Australian ruling says courts should decide.

Al Jazeera

War crime queries after Israeli refugee camp strike

Israel needs to provide more information about its targeting of a refugee camp to kill a senior Hamas leader, an international law expert says.

AAP

Australia’s new UN counter-terror chief fears world repeating ‘same mistakes’ of the past in Israel-Gaza conflict

Prof Ben Saul cautions that exceeding the limits of international law only breeds extremism and discontent, and is no recipe for peace

The Guardian - AU

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Australian War Memorial installs new plaque acknowledging Ben Roberts-Smith ‘complicit in unlawful killings’

Move criticised as inadequate, with Australian Centre for International Justice saying it minimised gravity of allegations

The Guardian - AU

Egyptian refugee Sayed Abdellatif cleared as security threat by Asio, but still detained after 11 years

Abdellatif remains in Australian immigration detention, where he has been held for a decade thanks to security assessments tainted by evidence obtained under torture

The Guardian - AU

How to catch a war criminal: Investigators are building a case against Putin in Ukraine's killing fields

It is a sleepy rural scene: a pale grey sky hangs low over a grassy slope, bordered by the bare branches of winter trees. But the scene hides horrors that war crimes investigators are already raking over.

ABC News

What constitues a war crime and who could try Russia for alleged crimes committed during its invasion of Ukraine?

The International Criminal Court and several European countries are investigating suspected war crimes in Ukraine, so what happens if a case can be made against Russia, who might be charged and what courts have the authority to try such a case?

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