It is time to move the UN and international law out of the West

Author: Unknown
Published on: 05/02/2025 | 00:00:00

AI Summary:
Israel has killed UN workers, banned UNRWA, barred UN representatives from entry, and repeatedly insulted the UN and its officials. Successive Israeli governments and their allies have also used all means possible to exert pressure on the International Criminal Court not to investigate Israeli crimes. Attacks on the court have only intensified after it issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. Chilean legal scholar Alejandro Alvarez proposed a “new international law” some 70 years ago. He argued that the European legal tradition was inadequate to address legal questions in places like the Americas. In a series of dissenting opinions in cases he deliberated on, alvarez called for a new international law which accommodated the particular historical moment of the decolonisation across the world. If the US decides to cut funding to all of the UN, then there is a clear response. Move the UN outside of the US and fortress Europe to somewhere in the Global South. Relocating the UN Headquarters out of New York would drastically cut costs. It would do away with the dilemma of an international legal institution headquartered in a state that has proven to be the most consistent perpetrator of the crimes that the institution was created to prevent. The current moment of genocide, neocolonialism, climate crisis and sickening impunity imposes on us the duty to reimagine the status quo. Cynicism is something we cannot afford. We need to start laying down the foundation of a new international legal system that finds virtue in justice rather than power.

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