#ICC prosecutor's decision to seek arrest warrants reaffirms crucial #ICC role. Victims of serious abuses in #Israel and #Palestine have faced a wall of impunity for decades. This opens the door to justice.

Response from Balkees Jarrah, associate international justice director at Human Rights Watch:

Amazing news!

Over 100 human rights and civil society groups call on #US #Biden to support #ICC independence and oppose sanctions on the court and its officials. #JusticeMatters ⚖️ Read our letter here: tinyurl.com/4rxehd4u

Breaking: Int’l Court of Justice orders Israel to end its assault on Rafah. Govts must use their leverage—including arms embargoes & targeted sanctions—to press Israel to comply w binding CIJ_ICJ orders. Rules-based int’l order & lives of 2.3 million Palestinians hang in balance

Nowhere in Gaza is safe. The CIJ_ICJ's order underlines the gravity of the situation in Gaza, where civilians are facing famine. Yet the Israeli government continues to flout the World Court’s binding orders by obstructing the entry of lifesaving aid and services.

The CIJ_ICJ order to halt Israeli assault on Rafah underlines gravity of situation—nowhere is safe, civilians facing famine & Israel flouting the Court's binding orders. Govts should use their leverage—including arms embargoes & targeted sanctions—to press Israel to comply. Human Rights Watch

Good statement by Australia, Canada, EU, UK, USA and others on the situation in #Myanmar. Time for them to do the same about #Gaza.

Accountability for war crimes in the former #Yugoslavia isn’t over. #UN resolution is imptnt recognition of genocidal acts at #Srebenica. Yet # of states rejecting/abstaining shows disturbing hostility to acknowledging even well-documented, widely accepted genocide. ⬇️ Human Rights Watch

IOC urged to help overturn France's hijab ban bbc.in/45nyORX

For many millions of children, the right to free education is but a promise. Primary education might be free in many places, but secondary education is prohibitively expensive. And access to pre-school is reserved for those who can pay. It's time for states to change this.

Apropos of absolutely nothing, just posting the link to our Human Rights Watch report about sex testing in elite women’s sport — hrw.org/report/2020/12…

Important piece from Human Rights Watch’s Minky Worden. Global conversation should focus on combating racism & discrimination inherent in sex testing for sports, not bullying women athletes. International Olympic Committee Is Right to Stand against Sex Testing hrw.org/news/2024/08/0…

#Maori leaders saw needed knowledge, spirit, strength in new queen as #Aotearoa govt moving to undercut #Indigenous ppls rights “The best protest we can do right now is to be Maori, be who we are, live our values…. we r here, we r strong.” #NewZealand washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/…

I.e. “we keep relying on extraordinarily imbalanced & unpaid additional labor of mostly women & girls who do this on top of other (often unpaid/outside formal labor mkt & at risk of being underpaid, exploitative) work instead of ensuring universal access to childcare & preschool”