Law and Extreme Conditions – Current Media Reports
Israel-Palestine: War with Hamas in Gaza
UN Security Council passes resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire. Raffi Berg, BBC News, March 25, 2024
ICJ court ruling, January 27, 2024 – see here
Separate opinion of judge ad-hoc Barak – see here
Natural Disasters
NYC flooding: Mayor urges ‘extreme caution’ with all five boroughs under state of emergency. Oliver O’Connell, Kelly Rissman and Sheila Flynn, Independent, October 1, 2023
Canada wildfires: British Columbia in state of emergency as 19,000 flee Yellowknife fire. Tracey Lindeman in Ottawa, and agencies, The Guardian, 19 Aug 2023
Socio-economic crises
תהליכי החלשת הדמוקרטיה: תמונת מצב בתום מושב החורף של הכנסת, אפריל 2024. עו”ד ענת טהון אשכנזי ועו”ד דפני בנבניסטי, המכון הישראלי לדמוקרטיה, 9.4.2024
Haiti gang leader threatens ‘civil war’ if PM does not resign. Vanessa Buschschlüter
BBC News, March 6, 2024
The Constitutional Crisis in Israel – A Special Issue of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Israel Law Review – Volume 56 – Special Issue 3 – November 2023
Man-made and Cyber Disasters
Bulgaria’s surveillance laws breach European human rights convention-ECHR. Reuters, January 11, 2022
Man-made – see more
Cyber – see more
War and Terror
Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘ecocide’ as critical dam near Kherson destroyed sparking evacuations. Helen Regan, Jonny Hallam, Josh Pennington, Olga Voitovych and Irene Nasser, CNN, June 6, 2023
Coronavirus
WHO declares end to COVID global health emergency. Jennifer Rigby and Bhanvi Satija, Reuters, May 5, 2023
