The United Nation’s top court filed a ruling Friday that echoed what Palestinian advocates have been saying for decades: Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land, including its settlements in the West Bank, is illegal and must end.
The International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion also called for reparations for Palestinians who have lived under Israel’s occupation since it began in 1967, an unprecedented step for the court.
The court also notably declared Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians to be a form of segregation and apartheid. It further ruled that nations cannot offer aid in support of the illegal occupation without violating international law, and upheld the Palestinians’ right to self-determination.
the advantage of having a supranational organization is that everybody is looking at it and its reputation relies on how good it is. the disadvantage is that they have no power other than advisory
There are other terrible international organizations, though. Like the IOC or FIFA.
fifa is weird, it is a private company kinda but not really. And they have all rights to the word football (?)
FIFA is absolutely private. They’re an association. Which is also the case for their members, which are national football associations, and that’s generally also the case for the members of those, which are the clubs. Long story short the reason FIFA sucks is because its members don’t properly reign it in. Part of the issue is that it’s not just handling the world cup, it’s also handling erm development aid, lots of money flowing to poorer regions so that they can buy cleats to develop more players which is all well and proper trouble is it invites corruption.
OTOH they’re not actually as powerful as it seems, in the end the Brits are severely over-represented when it comes to laying down the laws of the game.
The IOC is also an association, also under Swiss law, but a quite different beast: They’re basically a gentleman’s club travelling around the world making deals. It’s not like the world association of track and field or whatnot (which do exist for pretty much any sport) are members of it.