When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbor a decade ago, the coral rose ...

The top UN court will on Wednesday hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that also sets out ...

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The top United Nations court will on Wednesday hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that ...

Advisory opinions are not legally binding, but from the world’s highest court they present an authoritative and persuasive ...

The International Court of Justice heard testimony from more than 100 nations and organizations in the lead-up to its decision.

The ruling’s scope is limited to two American activists, but it represents a striking, if tentative, blow to the president’s ...

International law knows of no graver crime than genocide. The 1948 convention, which Israel was among the first nations to join, defines genocide as the perpetration of any of several heinous ...

Latest on U.N. court order in Israel-Hamas war The International Court of Justice, the United Nations' top judicial body, has ordered Israel to pause all operations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

FILE – A lone demonstrator waves the Palestinian flag outside the Peace Palace, rear, housing the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, on May 24, 2024.

The International Court of Justice is international, to be sure, but it is neither behaving like a court nor dispensing justice. Rather, the ICJ is allowing itself to be used as a geopolitical ...

THE HAGUE] The top United Nations court will on Wednesday (Jul 23) hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling ...