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Oil and natural gas in the Occupied Syrian Golan, illegal exploitation by Israel as occupying power

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According to the Law of Occupation, Israel being the occupying country, has the legal obligation to act as just administrator of public property and natural resources. Nevertheless, at the beginning of 2013 Israel’s Energy and Water Resources Ministry granted Genie Energy, an American-Israeli company, an exclusive licence to explore for oil and gas in a 153-square miles radius in the southern part of the Golan.

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From Peaceful Demonstrations to Armed Conflict: Considering Humanitarian Intervention in the Case of Syria

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The current conflict in Syria has developed from an excessively violent suppression of civilian protestors by Syrian State forces into an allout Civil War. Beginning in March 2011, the conflict has troubled the conscience of the international community.

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Syrian Situation and the International Criminal Court, responsibility to referral and to investigate

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Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011 the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity by both the government and pro-government forces and the anti-government military groups has continued to escalate, leading to the worst humanitarian crisis since the Rwandan genocide.

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Al-Marsad’s Parallel Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial and Discrimination

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Al-Marsad welcomes the opportunity provided by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to submit an alternative report containing information which is of relevance to its review of Israel’s Fourteenth to Sixteenth Periodic Reports on its implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

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