I Will Not Look Away · 2026
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The facts that struck me and that I could not ignore. Every item is verified and accompanied by a legal analysis before publication.
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July 2026
Trump wants Greenland back. And NATO is threatening itself.
«Greenland is of course not for sale.» — Mette Frederiksen, Danish Prime Minister, NATO summit in Ankara, July 2026
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July 2026
Trump threatens Iran's water and power plants. It wouldn't be the first time — and it would be a war crime.
«They have desalination plants — we'll take them out if we have to.» — Donald Trump, July 8, 2026
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July 2026
Burkina Faso leaves the International Criminal Court while remaining the world's country most affected by terrorism
«Burkina Faso remains the country most affected by terrorism.» — Global Terrorism Index 2026
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July 2026
South Sudan on the edge of famine, while the tribunal promised in 2018 remains a dead letter
«I fear my next briefing will be about famine.» — Tom Fletcher, UN humanitarian affairs chief, April 2026
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July 2026
Nord Stream: Germany charges a former Ukrainian officer with sabotage as a war crime
“We do not fear the indictment: we demand that the facts be established, and in public.” — Nicola Canestrini, defence lawyer
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June 2026
Afghanistan: the International Criminal Court charges the Taliban leadership with gender persecution
“It amounts to gender apartheid.” — Richard Bennett, UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan
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June 2026
Haiti: a UN-authorized “suppression force” against gangs half made of children
“Security enforcement alone will not be enough to resolve the governance problems.” — António Guterres, UN Secretary-General
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June 2026
Sudan: the UN warns that an offensive on El-Obeid risks new international crimes
“We have seen this playbook before.” — Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
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June 2026
The International Court of Justice deliberates on the Rohingya genocide
“It is about real people, real stories, and a real group of human beings.” — Dawda Jallow, Gambia's Justice Minister, at the ICJ
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June 2026
The DRC takes Rwanda to the International Court of Justice
“One of the most protracted, complex and serious humanitarian crises on Earth.” — the UN, on the war in eastern DRC
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June 2026
A UN commission of inquiry finds the deliberate targeting of Palestinian children
“Palestinian children will not simply recover overnight.” — Srinivasan Muralidhar, Chair of the Commission
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June 2026
Lebanon: Mona Khalil killed in her own home in Mansouri, under an evacuation order
"I live each day to the fullest and do not worry about tomorrow." — Mona Khalil
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18 June 2026 — United States · Iran · UN
A deal born fragile: the US-Iran peace between coercion and non-bound third parties
«If anybody gets near the uranium, we'll blow them up.» — Donald Trump
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15 June 2026 — EU Foreign Affairs Council · Brussels
Sanctions on Ben Gvir: the EU blocked by unanimity, while individual states act
«We don't have the necessary unanimity that we need for this decision.» — Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative
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13 June 2026 — Middle East · UN
Iran: the 2026 war nears its end, and the unresolved question of the use of force
The UN Secretary-General stated the US-Israeli strikes violated the UN Charter, and condemned Iran's retaliation against Gulf states as unlawful too.
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12 June 2026 — European Union
The new EU Asylum Pact enters into force
"Labelling a country 'safe' does not make it safe." — Amnesty International
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11 June 2026 — Luxembourg
Albania: the CJEU opinion — "legitimate, but rights must be guaranteed"
"States remain free to locate the centres in Albania" — yet compliance with minimum standards of treatment remains unproven. (AG Laila Medina's opinion)
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June 2026 — Omer Bartov, «Israel: What Went Wrong?»
Gaza and the word "genocide": what third-party bodies have actually determined, and why a genocide scholar's voice carries weight
"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people." — Omer Bartov, Holocaust and genocide scholar (Brown University), New York Times, 15 July 2025
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May–June 2026 — Taipei · Washington · Beijing
Taiwan, the next test: deterrence wavers and the precedent emboldens Beijing
"The last thing we need right now is a war that's 9,500 miles away." — Donald Trump, returning from the summit with Xi Jinping, May 2026
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6 June 2026 — Tribeca Film Festival, New York
"I thought they only raped Palestinians" — rape jokes on the Tribeca red carpet
"I was only raped by two Israeli dogs" — Elon Gold, actor. "I thought they only raped Palestinians" — Lizzy Savetsky, influencer. On the red carpet of the Tribeca Film Festival, 6 June 2026.
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Academic research
The Israeli school system: a factory of the enemy
"You taught us they are a problem to be solved. So we are solving it." — Israeli student to Nurit Peled-Elhanan
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June 2026
Ben Gvir proposes kidnapping Lebanese women and children
"Kidnap women and children and bring them to the terrorists' prisons" — Itamar Ben Gvir, Israeli Minister of National Security
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June 2026
Ben Gvir investigated by Rome prosecutors — Flotilla
The Rome Prosecutor's Office registered Ben Gvir as a suspect in the Global Sumud Flotilla case. Ben Gvir responded by attacking Italy: "The country of flip-flops."
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June 2026
Italy requests EU sanctions against Ben Gvir
"I asked High Representative Kallas to bring a sanctions proposal against Minister Ben Gvir to the Foreign Affairs Council" — Antonio Tajani, Italian Foreign Minister
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3 January 2026 — Caracas
The United States militarily captures President Nicolás Maduro and announces it will "run" Venezuela. The capture of a sitting head of state, without Security Council authorisation or self-defence, violates Article 2(4) of the UN Charter and head-of-state immunity. It is the purest test of this platform's principle: the law applies to all or to none.
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