Article 3 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) reads: ‘States Parties particularly condemn racial segregation and apartheid and undertake to prevent, prohibit and eradicate all practices of this nature in territories under their jurisdiction’. The provision proved central to the recent International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory…

On 22 August 2024, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD/the Committee) published the report of the ad hoc Conciliation Commission (the Commission) in Palestine v Israel. This marks the final stage of the inter-State communications procedure initiated by Palestine in April 2018 under Article 11 of the International Convention on the Elimination of…

Last week, the International Court of Justice held hearings to consider the United Arab Emirates request for provisional measures in the Case concerning the Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Qatar v. UAE).  The UAE’s requests are unusual in at least two ways. First these requests constitute…