It is time to transfer United Nations and international law from the West United Nations

The exceptional immunity that Israel has enjoyed for decades and its institutions has placed on the edge of a knife. Israel has killed the United Nations workers, banned UNRWA, banned United Nations representatives of entry, and the United Nations has repeatedly.

The successive Israeli governments and their allies have also used all possible means to put pressure on the International Criminal Court (ICC) by not investigating Israeli crimes – from direct threats to physical violence to sanctions and defamation. The attacks were intensified on the court only after it issued arrest orders to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yov Galet.

US President Donald Trump – a supporter of the thirsty Israel – has already an executive order to re -submit sanctions to the international criminal court staff. This is in addition to other decisions he made – including the American withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization – which constitute a direct attack on international pluralism. On Tuesday, the US President boasts his complete ignorance of international law by declaring his intention to “take over” Gaza and “possess it”.

All of these developments raise questions about whether the current global system led by the United Nations goes beyond salvation.

Despite his creation “to save subsequent generations from the scourge of war” in 1945, the United Nations has largely failed to prevent conflicts and stop them for decades. Its creation looked in the era of “peace for some” – peace for the economically advanced countries that participate in the wars of an agent in the former colonial countries. So, do we abandon the idea of ​​the international legal order completely?

Since we face the imminent danger to climate change and the rapid escalation of militarization, it is clear that we need a system that unites people under justice. Various thinkers have suggested an international legal matter that is not preferred.

For example, prominent Chilean legal researcher Alejandro Alvarez has suggested a “new international law” about 70 years ago. During his term (1946-1955) as a judge in the International Court of Justice, he argued that the European legal tradition, which was based on a lot of international law, was not enough to address legal questions in places like the Americas.

In a series of opposition opinions in the cases he circulated, Alvarez called for a “new international law” that accommodates the special historical moment to end colonialism all over the world and reflected the interests and positions of the severed countries.

There was A clear attempt At that time by the states of the global south to demand international law in its favor. However, economically developed countries have used their influence to eliminate such attempts.

We are now at a historical turn where these efforts must be renewed if the idea of ​​the international legal order is to survive. Work on Palestine can be the driver, as the genocide in Gaza is a symbol of greater patterns of domination and exploitation that defines the current world order.

There are already efforts made by the southern global states to exclude Israel from the United Nations. A petition signed before 500 legal scholars He also called on the United Nations General Assembly to abolish Israel in order to preserve its legitimacy.

In response, the US Congress sent a message to UN Minister Antonio Guterres, who threatens to withdraw American financing if this vote is moving forward. While the power of the American lobby at the United Nations is not secret, the general threat to withdrawing funds from the United Nations if it carries out its natural functions is a form of economic coercion that publicly undermines the authority of the Foundation and the international buildings of a law.

If the United States decides to reduce funding for all the United Nations, there is a clear response – the United Nations moves outside the United States and the castle to a place in the global south. The transfer of the United Nations headquarters from New York will significantly reduce costs, enhance the global support of the south, and enable its strongest participation. It would get rid of the dilemma of an international legal institution based in a country that has proven to be the most revolutionary perpetrators of the crimes that were created to prevent it.

At the institutional level, history clearly shows the need to cancel the institutional structures that devote the imperial authority, such as the United Nations Security Council, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. The calls to cancel these institutions were led by leading figures in the colonial termination movement such as Thomas Sankara and Amskar Kabral. As platforms for global southern voices, the United Nations General Assembly and the International Court of Justice must be granted with more power – and this point has been repeatedly confirmed by Algerian judge Mohamed Bidgoy. Moreover, this can be a moment of the status of rapid international law that depends on historical efforts to create a new international legal system. The Pacific Islands have already defied the restrictions of international law by asking the International Court of Justice to the role of the state’s responsibility towards climate change.

Progressive International, an alliance of progressive organizations from all over the world, sought to revive some previous efforts by launching a project to develop a framework for a new international economic order. There is strength in the unity of votes, and people in the global south unite in their experience in economic, physical and subjugation domination. In order for this change to happen, the tidal needs to be aligned – even if it is only a brief moment.

The current moment of genocide, new control, climatic crisis, and sick drags impose on us the duty to re -imagine the current situation. The irony is something we cannot afford. We need to start laying the basis of a new international legal system that finds virtue in justice instead of power.

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