Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena; Carpi, Estella; (2025) Special Issue: Southern Responses to Displacement – Editors’ Introduction. Journal of Humanitarian Affairs , 6 (1) pp. 1-12. 10.7227/jha.118.

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In December 2023, the South African government – a country that fought for and won its own freedom from apartheid and colonial occupation – brought a groundbreaking genocide case against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), seeking and being granted provisional measures to uphold ‘the right of the Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide’ (ICJ Order 2024: §54). Throughout this process, Southern1 and postcolonial states have sought to hold hegemonic states and institutions accountable for committing and/or being complicit in the most serious of crimes under international law. In turn, headlines around the world announced the end of the ‘Westernled world order’ (Callamard, 2024; The Economist, 2024; Islam, 2024; The Jordan Times, 2024; Mansour, 2024; Takahashi, 2024) as around the globe, politicians, academics, directors of international, national and local human rights organisations, as well as civil society networks, have highlighted the underlying hypocrisy and violence of a ‘rules-based’ order founded and led by Western states which perpetuates colonial systems of oppression and exploitation and systematically fails to uphold the rights of peoples affected by occupation, conflict, mass displacement and dispossession. Highly visible and audible on a global stage, states from across the global South have been recognised as diplomatic leaders at the United Nations (UN), and elsewhere, seeking a permanent ceasefire and compliance with the ICJ’s Interim Orders, with resolutions drafted inter alios) by Algeria, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan,2 Malta, Mozambique, Republic of Korea and Sierra Leone in March 2024 – Namibia submitting interventions in relation to the South African case brought before the ICJ (on the latter, see Mhaka, 2024) – and signing resolutions passed by the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League (on different African states’ roles in relation to the ICJ case, see Diallo, 2024)

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