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Ukraine and Russia traded barbs in the UN's top court over the legality of the invasion. What could happen next in the case?

In the days immediately following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian government filed a case against Moscow in the UN’s highest court, the International Court of Justice.

The Conversation

Jewish Organizations Forge Alliances At UNGA, Discuss Antisemitism And Iran

US Jewish groups hold sideline meetings with world leaders at UN General Assembly

Zenger

Australia backs Ukraine at UN's highest court

Australia's solicitor-general has delivered an intervention at the International Court of Justice in support of Ukraine's case against the invasion by Russia.

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Australia to support Ukraine at UN's highest court

Australia's Solicitor-General will deliver an intervention at the International Court of Justice in support of Ukraine's case against the invasion by Russia.

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Ukraine asks International Court of Justice to examine Russia's 'terrible lie'

Ukraine told the International Court of Justice on Tuesday that Russia, to justify its invasion in 2022, invoked a “terrible lie” that it was trying to stop alleged genocide.

Radio France Internationale

Ukraine lawyers insist that UN's top court has jurisdiction to hear Kyiv's case against Russia

Ukraine is insisting that the United Nations’ highest court has jurisdiction to hear a case alleging that Moscow abused the genocide convention to justify launching its devastating invasion last year

The Independent UK

Watch as World Court hears Ukraine’s response to Russian objections in genocide case

Watch as Ukraine responds to Russia’s objections against the jurisdiction of the World Court in a genocide case brought by the nation, which claims Moscow falsely applied genocide law to justify its 2022 invasion.

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Ukraine and its allies battle Russian bid to have genocide case tossed out of the UN's top court

Ukraine’s legal battle against Russia over allegations of genocide used by Moscow to justify its 2022 invasion is resuming at the United Nations’ highest court

The Independent UK

Could the law of the sea be used to protect small island states from climate change?

Climate change will wreak havoc on small island developing states in the Pacific and elsewhere. Some will be swamped by rising seas. These communities also face more extreme weather, increasingly acidic oceans, coral bleaching and harm to fisheries. Food supplies, human health and livelihoods are at risk. And it’s clear…

The Conversation

Indian judge holds Pak. has withdrawn case

Fifty years ago, Mr. Nagendra Singh of India, Judge of the International Court of Justice, expressed the view that there had been “a clear withdrawal” by Pakistan of its application against India.

The Hindu

Top UN court rejects Nicaragua's case in a long-running maritime dispute with Colombia

The United Nations’ top court has rejected a case brought by Nicaragua in a decades-long dispute with Colombia over maritime borders and entitlements in the Caribbean

The Independent UK

Canada and allies taking Iran to ICJ over downed PS752 flight

Canada, Sweden, Ukraine and UK say move aims ‘to ensure Iran is held accountable’ for 2020 crash that killed 176 people.

Al Jazeera

Iran takes Canada to UN court over civil damages claims

Tehran accuses Ottawa of violating international obligations to uphold the ‘principle of sovereign immunity’.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine to open hearings in case against Russia at top UN court

Hearings are opening at the United Nations’ highest court in a case brought by Ukraine against Russia linked to Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and arming of rebels in eastern Ukraine in the years before Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022

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UN to commemorate Palestinians' 1948 flight from Israel for the first time

For the first time, the United Nations will officially commemorate the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from what is now Israel on the 75th anniversary of their exodus

Reuters

Armenia appeals to ICJ over Azerbaijani checkpoint on road to Karabakh

Armenia has appealed to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over Azerbaijan's installation of a checkpoint on the only road linking Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh, Russian media reported on Wednesday.

Salon

Vanuatu scores a big climate win

It convinced the UN to urge the highest court to rule on whether polluting nations must address climate change

Newcastle Herald

Survivors have enough pain without copping the church's legal games

As a practising Catholic, it makes one feel totally ashamed of the Catholic Church in regards to this matter.

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ICJ Rejects Iran's Bid to Release Assets Frozen by US

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has rejected Iran's legal bid to release about $2 billion owned by the Markazi Bank frozen by the US. The Associated Press reported that the largest part of the case focused on Bank Markazi and its frozen assets of $1.75 billion in bonds and…

Al Jazeera

ICJ orders US to pay compensation for freezing Iranian assets

In a blow for Iran, however, the UN court said it didn’t have jurisdiction over frozen assets from Iran’s central bank.

The Independent UK

Top UN court rejects Iranian bid to free assets frozen by US

The United Nations’ top court has rejected Tehran’s legal bid to free up some $2 billion in Iranian central bank assets frozen by U.S. authorities to be paid in compensation to victims of a 1983 bombing in Lebanon and other attacks linked to Iran

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UN backs landmark Pacific-led resolution clearing way for International Court of Justice advisory opinion on climate obligations

A landmark resolution by Vanuatu law students and its government to get climate change to the world's highest court has been adopted by the United Nations, in a bid to clarify if states are responsible for preventing climate harm.

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