Marjorie Cohn

San Diego

Writer at Freelance

Writer, lecturer, commentator, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Articles

Orbán Investigated by ICC After Refusing to Arrest Netanyahu in Hungary

3 weeks ago | laprogressive.com | Marjorie Cohn |Rob Maurer

As a party to the ICC’s Rome Statute, Hungary is obliged to arrest suspected war criminals and send them to The Hague. In a shameless attempt to undermine international accountability for accused war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hungarian President Viktor Orbán graciously hosted the architect of Israel’s 18-month genocide in Gaza on April 3.
Orbán Faces ICC Investigation After Refusing to Arrest Netanyahu in Hungary

3 weeks ago | truthout.org | Marjorie Cohn

Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs In a shameless attempt to undermine international accountability for accused war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hungarian President Viktor Orbán graciously hosted the architect of Israel’s 18-month genocide in Gaza on April 3. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is now formally investigating Hungary’s blatant refusal to fulfill its legal obligation to arrest Netanyahu and send him to The Hague.
Appalled at Genocide Funding, 2,000 US Taxpayers Turn to the UN for Redress

4 weeks ago | laprogressive.com | Marjorie Cohn |Rob Maurer

Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG), a nongovernmental grassroots mass movement comprised of more than 2,000 taxpayers who have been protesting their congressional representatives’ votes to fund Israel’s genocide in Gaza, filed an unprecedented report with the UN Human Rights Council on April 7. “We have gone through all the channels open to us in our effort to stop U.S. officials from using our tax dollars to fund genocide.
Appalled At Funding Genocide, Over 2,000 US Taxpayers Turn To The UN For Redress| Countercurrents

4 weeks ago | countercurrents.org | Marjorie Cohn |Phil Pasquini |Kathy Kelly |John Rachel

Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG), a nongovernmental grassroots mass movement comprised of more than 2,000 taxpayers who have been protesting their congressional representatives’ votes to fund Israel’s genocide in Gaza, filed an unprecedented report with the UN Human Rights Council on April 7. “We have gone through all the channels open to us in our effort to stop U.S. officials from using our tax dollars to fund genocide.
Appalled at Funding Genocide, Over 2,000 US Taxpayers Turn to the UN for Redress

4 weeks ago | truthout.org | Marjorie Cohn |Assange Defense |Geopolitical Issues

Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG), a nongovernmental grassroots mass movement comprised of more than 2,000 taxpayers who have been protesting their congressional representatives’ votes to fund Israel’s genocide in Gaza, filed an unprecedented report with the UN Human Rights Council on April 7.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Attorney: “This Is the McCarthy Era All Over Again”

1 month ago | truthout.org | Marjorie Cohn |Assange Defense |Geopolitical Issues

Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs A federal judge in New Jersey will soon issue a ruling on where the deportation case of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student who led the student encampment at Columbia University last year, can be litigated.
Duterte’s ICC Arrest for Crime Against Humanity Strikes a Blow Against Impunity

2 months ago | znetwork.org | Marjorie Cohn

Activists in the Philippines say the stunning arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for a crime against humanity marks a major step toward accountability for the thousands of Filipinos targeted and killed under the pretext of his infamous “war on drugs.” “The arrest of Duterte is highly significant for the cause of international justice because it sends a clear signal that tyrants who brazenly trample on basic human rights can...
Duterte’s ICC Arrest for Crime Against Humanity Strikes a Blow Against Impunity

2 months ago | smirkingchimp.com | Marjorie Cohn

— from Truthout Activists in the Philippines say the stunning arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for a crime against humanity marks a major step toward accountability for the thousands of Filipinos targeted and killed under the pretext of his infamous “war on drugs.” “The arrest of Duterte is highly significant for the cause of international justice because it sends a clear signal that tyrants who brazenly trample on basic...
Duterte’s ICC Arrest for Crime Against Humanity Strikes a Blow Against Impunity

2 months ago | truthout.org | Marjorie Cohn |Assange Defense |Geopolitical Issues

Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs Activists in the Philippines say the stunning arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for a crime against humanity marks a major step toward accountability for the thousands of Filipinos targeted and killed under the pretext of his infamous “war on drugs.” “The arrest of Duterte is highly significant for the cause of international justice because it sends a clear signal that...
By Refusing to Obey Court Orders, Trump Is Provoking a Constitutional Crisis

2 months ago | smirkingchimp.com | Marjorie Cohn

— from Truthout No sooner did Donald Trump take the oath of office than he immediately took a wrecking ball to government agencies and programs that protect nearly every aspect of Americans’ lives. States, public interest organizations, schools, doctors, unions, immigrants, federal workers and individuals have filed more than 60 lawsuits challenging Trump’s legal authority to take these actions. At least nine judges throughout the country have temporarily halted several of them.