8/12/2014
AS IF the Israel vs. Hamas battle didn't lead to enough Internet name-calling, the comments sections are about to add a celebrity angle.
The U.N.'s three-member commission on possible violations of the rules of war in Gaza will include George Clooney's fiancee, British-Lebanese lawyer Amal Alamuddin.
The president of the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council announced the appointments yesterday. Alamuddin is a London-based international-law specialist and former legal adviser to the prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
Canada's William Schabas, an international-law professor at Middlesex University, will chair the commission. Also tapped was Doudou Diene, of Senegal, a lawyer who has filled U.N. posts on racism and human rights in Ivory Coast.
Gabon Ambassador Baudelaire Ndong Ella, who presides over the U.N.'s top human-rights body in Geneva, said that the commission would investigate all violations of international humanitarian and human-rights law according to the council's July 23 resolution and report back in March.
Guess no one's in a rush to get the answers.
Let's just hope the fighting is over long before then.
The Geneva-based advocacy group U.N. Watch called on Schabas to recuse himself from the commission because of prior statements critical of Israeli leaders. The group's executive director, Hillel Neuer, also questioned whether the U.N. is "trying to inject some Hollywood publicity into the process" by appointing Alamuddin.
Given how many celebrities have already weighed in on both sides of the conflict, Tattle thinks enough Hollywood publicity has already been injected.
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Amal Alamuddin, Fiance of Actor George Clooney attends the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict at ExCel on June 12, 2014 in London, England. The four-day conference on sexual violence in war is hosted by Foreign Secretary William Hague and UN Special Envoy and actress Angelina Jolie. (Photo by Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images)
AS IF the Israel vs. Hamas battle didn't lead to enough Internet name-calling, the comments sections are about to add a celebrity angle.
The U.N.'s three-member commission on possible violations of the rules of war in Gaza will include George Clooney's fiancee, British-Lebanese lawyer Amal Alamuddin.
The president of the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council announced the appointments yesterday. Alamuddin is a London-based international-law specialist and former legal adviser to the prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
Canada's William Schabas, an international-law professor at Middlesex University, will chair the commission. Also tapped was Doudou Diene, of Senegal, a lawyer who has filled U.N. posts on racism and human rights in Ivory Coast.
Gabon Ambassador Baudelaire Ndong Ella, who presides over the U.N.'s top human-rights body in Geneva, said that the commission would investigate all violations of international humanitarian and human-rights law according to the council's July 23 resolution and report back in March.
Guess no one's in a rush to get the answers.
Let's just hope the fighting is over long before then.
The Geneva-based advocacy group U.N. Watch called on Schabas to recuse himself from the commission because of prior statements critical of Israeli leaders. The group's executive director, Hillel Neuer, also questioned whether the U.N. is "trying to inject some Hollywood publicity into the process" by appointing Alamuddin.
Given how many celebrities have already weighed in on both sides of the conflict, Tattle thinks enough Hollywood publicity has already been injected.
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