👇 This is a seriously important initiative which will support Australians wrongly detained abroad, and help their families access support and advocacy

Its hard to overstate how much this is needed, and how many Australians are being failed by the current approach

Good to see posters around my RMIT building where I teach. “Votes No!” more info here: nteu.au/News_Articles/…

Great news: Congratulations to everyone who spoke up, acted, & pushed 🇨🇦 to reverse course. It worked!

Canada will now resume funding to #UNRWA , with a scheduled payment in April of $25 million + new funding, according to a senior government official. cbc.ca/news/politics/…

Although on a larger scale, the ICTY found that similar activity in Srebrenica constituted genocide.

Trying to stay off the hellsite owned by the person who keeps amping white natalist antisemitic conspiracy theories, but this felt appropriate.

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US State Department announces its determination that members of the SAF and the RSF have committed war crimes in Sudan & that members of the RSF and allied militias have committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.

state.gov/war-crimes-cri… #ICC #ASP22 #Sudan

I've just invoked Art.99 of the UN Charter - for the 1st time in my tenure as Secretary-General.

Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe & appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared.

The Wage Theft bill in #HigherEd is growing...$159m since 2009, at 28 #universities + 3 smaller providers, affecting 97,000 staff, with further instances under investigation at 8 more branches.
Read more: bit.ly/wagereport
Sign our Accord petition: bit.ly/accordpetition

The academic workload tracking spreadsheet template is now updated with 2024 dates. Once again encouraging all salaried academics to track your hours to help resist toxic overwork culture and to make flexibility work for you, not just for your employer.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Interrupting my semi-hiatus to bring this back in light of current events:

NTEU welcomes the amendment of Closing the Loopholes bill that stipulates a university semester is not a “season” for employment purposes. Damien Cahill, NTEU General Secretary, says “It will be another disincentive to employing people in casual contracts, particularly where the…

International economic law, law of international organizations, critical theorists, human rights law

📢New article by Professor Catherine Turner and I in International Studies Quarterly on how hierarchies of knowledge in transitional justice are created and sustained.

Using citation analysis, we discuss
- epistemic positioning
- canonization of TJ
- policing the field's boundaries

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academic.oup.com/isq/article/67…

Scoop: The Biden administration warned Israel that it is violating the visa waiver agreement with the U.S. by preventing Palestinian Americans who live in the West Bank from entering Israel since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack. My story on Axios
axios.com/2023/11/16/isr…

re-upping my offer of codes to the 'the owner is not a Nazi' site.

Hey #qualitative peeps: I'm about to plow into intercoder reliability, involving two coders. I'm looking for recent literature on current publishing practice, esp. when more than one code might be applied to the data. Any help? Cheers!

Sure sex is great, but have you ever watched mediocre Australian journalists being absolutely put in their place by a devastatingly intelligent & erudite Italian lawyer?

Under Int'l Law,Israel has the right to PROTECT itself,not to WAGE WAR (i.e. self-defense under art 51 UNCharter) agst the people it has kept under belligerent occupation since'67. Gaza IS 'occupied' given Israel's effective control,regardless of Hamas' existence.

ICJ (2004):👇