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Special rapporteurs enjoy full diplomatic immunity under international law. Fellow experts suggest US sanctions can be subject of proceedings at the International Court of Justice
By Chronicle Staff The United Nations has strongly criticized the US decision to impose sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, warning that such actions against independent human rights experts set a “dangerous
Barclays and BP are hardly strangers to criticism. But even those UK PLC heavyweights must have been taken aback when last week – along with the likes of Google, Amazon and educational institutions such as the the University of Edinburgh – they were accused by the United Nations of exploiting an “economy of genocide” by maintaining ties with Israel.
UN report links Airbnb to aiding Israeli settlement expansion in occupied Palestinian territories. Hundreds of properties listed on confiscated land, inaccessible to Palestinians and in breach of international law.
A senior Al-Qassam commander told Al Jazeera that the group attempted to capture an Israeli soldier in Khan Yunis.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio slapped Treasury sanctions on United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on Wednesday, saying her bid to drag American and Israeli officials before the International Criminal Court (ICC) crossed a red line.