News and Updates
Global Rally Against Complicity in Gaza Genocide
The global rally was a response to Canada and other governments' unconscionable decision to defund the UN aid agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) immediately after the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel is plausibly committing genocide, including through deprivation of...
From Turtle Island to Kashmir to Palestine: Settler Colonialism is a Crime
The roundtable addressed the legal frameworks providing parallels and distinctions between settler colonial projects in Palestine, Kashmir, and Turtle Island. It aims to demonstrate how the Indian, Israeli, Canadian, and US governments build on each other's actions to reinforce their...
Seminar: Palestine & International Law for activists & organizations, Wed. Jan. 31, 7 PM EST
Topics covered included the current International Court of Justice cases on the Gaza genocide and the il/legality of the occupation, the International Criminal Court investigations, the application of the Genocide Convention to the situation in Palestine, and the relationship between...
Immediate Release: Arms Exports to Israel Violate Canadian and International Law, Says Canadian and Palestinian Coalition to Federal Government
On January 28, a coalition of Canadians and Palestinians wrote to Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly demanding that the federal government immediately halt all exports and transfers of Canadian military goods and technology to Israel.
End Canadian assistance to military suspected of committing genocide
In response to the International Court of Justice finding that Israel may be committing genocide and delivering a provisional ruling that Israel must cease its genocidal policies in Gaza, the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute and Just Peace Advocates are calling...
Trudeau must support Israel genocide case
On, January 10, 2023, Canadian Foreign Affairs Institute with Just Peace Advocates hosted a press conference calling on Trudeau to support South Africa’s case to the ICJ with the South African High Commissioner, the Palestinian Authority’s representative in Ottawa, Richard Falk, Avi...
Statement Calling on Canada to Support Gaza Genocide Case at the ICJ
As civil society leaders and legal experts, we look to the Canadian government to uphold its international legal obligation to prevent genocide, by supporting South Africa’s complaint to the International Court of Justice regarding Israel’s genocidal military operations against Palestinians...
Press conference, Jan, 10th at 12 NOON EST: Trudeau must support South Africa’s ICJ submission
On Wednesday, January 10 at 12 NOON EST, South Africa’s High Commissioner, Palestine’s ambassador, legal experts and others will participte in a press conference to call on Canada to endorse South Africa’s request for the International Court of Justice...
2023 Highlights
Just Peace Advocates work in 2023 included holding the Canadian government, other governments & agencies, the media, corporations and others accountable for their complicity in war crimes and apartheid, and their silence about genocide. It included supporting those silenced and...
NDP support South Africa’s submission to the ICJ
On Friday , December 29, 2023, the South African government requested the International Court of Justice (ICJ)make an urgent order declaring Israel in breach of its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention. This important effort to curtail the apartheid state’s horrors...