Betcy Jose
@betcy.bsky.social
Associate Professor focused on global norms, IHL, and civilians in war | part-time baker | Proud Keralite
Waiting for the VP to Vanceplain to the Pope on this
Rich Raho@richraho.bsky.social · 6h agoPope Leo XIV has posted on his official X account that the Catholic Church holds the death penalty to be “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
10 October 1939 | A Polish Jew, Shlomo Arie Hordiner, was born in Rzeszów. He was deported to #Auschwitz from ghetto in Sosnowiec in July 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
How to respond to egregious violations in order to preserve the global human rights regime. Silence has no place in these moments.
Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · yesterdayJOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM "As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States."
How to respond to egregious violations in order to preserve the global human rights regime. Silence has no place in these moments.
Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · yesterdayJOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM "As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States."
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
No surprise that South Africa 🇿🇦 has produced an extraordinary number of international human rights lawyers and judges. Forged in the resistance to apartheid where the flawed legal system remained none the less one of the few tools that saved some lives And so many #NobelPeacePrize laureates
MP Broache@mbroache.bsky.social · yesterdayAlso notable, given the escalating US campaign against the #ICC, that Pillay was among the first cohort of judges elected to the Court, serving from 2003-12
If you’re in Denver next week, please join us for this important event we’re cohosting about safeguarding our elections. Several notable speakers will attend, including Mayor Johnston.
Navanethem "Navi" Pillay became the first woman to start a law practice in South Africa's Natal Province back in 1967. A bus driver's daughter from a poor Indian section of Durban in South Africa, Pillay grew up and began her human rights work during the apartheid era. www.bbc.com/news/live/ck...
Nobel Peace Prize live: Navi Pillay wins for 'efforts to promote peace and international law'
Some 287 candidates have been nominated for the prestigious prize, which was won last year by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
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9 October 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Judit Erdos, was born in Miskolc. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
I’ve been working on the idea of zombie norms, outdated norms that actors attempt to revive, for awhile. Looks like I might have another case study.
Axios@axios.com · 2d agoDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the public will be able to watch the Fort Hood shooter's execution
I’ve been working on the idea of zombie norms, outdated norms that actors attempt to revive, for awhile. Looks like I might have another case study.
Axios@axios.com · 2d agoDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the public will be able to watch the Fort Hood shooter's execution
Lawrence Freedman@ldfreedman.bsky.social · 2w agoLatest post considers the ‘forgotten war’ of Sudan. I consider the state of the fighting, the humanitarian crisis, and the logic of partition. This is another example of the difficulty of extracting a good peace from a bad war. (This one is free). samf.substack.com/p/the-sudan-...?
Which is why universities are opening campuses in other countries
Frank O'Donnell@frank11285.bsky.social · 3d agoIf you’re in Denver next week, please join us for this important event we’re cohosting about safeguarding our elections. Several notable speakers will attend, including Mayor Johnston.
Which is why universities are opening campuses in other countries
Frank O'Donnell@frank11285.bsky.social · 3d agoLawrence Freedman@ldfreedman.bsky.social · 2w agoLatest post considers the ‘forgotten war’ of Sudan. I consider the state of the fighting, the humanitarian crisis, and the logic of partition. This is another example of the difficulty of extracting a good peace from a bad war. (This one is free). samf.substack.com/p/the-sudan-...?
This was one of the more diabolical Trump admin moves on immigration; ordering ICE to stop taking biometrics for detained immigrants seeking immigration benefits from USCIS, which meant that the agency would deny their applications by default.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d agoJUST IN: A judge has blocked ICE's policy "to stop collecting biometric information" from detainees that they need to pursue lawful status, like visas for human trafficking survivors and other crime victims. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
phoenixnewtimes.com
The Oct 7 massacre survivors in Ofakim did not receive the state-funded treatment and recognition frameworks provided to survivors of the Nova music festival and Gaza-border communities. 'Some Live on Pills, Others on Alcohol': www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Three Years Since October 7 • 'Some use pills, others alcohol': The neighborhood that never escaped October 7
Mishor Hagefen is the only neighborhood in Ofakim that wasn't evacuated after October 7. Three years later, the disaster is still present everywhere
haaretz.com
Saher Alghorra, a photographer for @nytimes.com , documents how Palestinians in Gaza rebuild their lives. A couple marry in a tent, a man builds a house from mud bricks, and a mass funeral buries bodies that are only bones. So poignant and yet slightly hopeful. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Video: What Life in Gaza Is Like Now
Nearly a year after Israel and Hamas agreed to end the war in Gaza, Saher Alghorra, a photographer for The New York Times, documents how residents are coping and working to rebuild their lives.
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