  {"id":298791,"date":"2024-03-15T15:07:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T19:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=298791"},"modified":"2024-07-18T17:40:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T21:40:48","slug":"public-hearings-icj-press-release","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/public-hearings-icj-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Public hearings on the Request for the indication of provisional measures &#8211; Proceedings instituted by Nicaragua against Germany &#8211; ICJ Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/icj-and-question-of-palestine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To learn more about all ICJ cases related to the question of Palestine, click here to visit the dedicated webpage.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>15 March 2024<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Proceedings instituted by Nicaragua against Germany on 1 March 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Request for the indication of provisional measures<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Public hearings to be held on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 April 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">On Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 April 2024, the International Court of Justice will hold public hearings at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court, in the proceedings instituted by the Republic of Nicaragua against the Federal Republic of Germany on 1 March 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">It is recalled that Nicaragua filed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/nicaragua-institutes-proceedings-against-germany-1mar24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Application instituting proceedings<\/em><\/a> against Germany concerning alleged violations by Germany of its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, \u201cintransgressible principles of international humanitarian law\u201d and other norms of general international law in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly the Gaza Strip (see press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/nicaragua-institutes-proceedings-against-germany-1mar24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>2024\/19<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The hearings will be devoted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/nicaragua-institutes-proceedings-against-germany-1mar24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>request for the indication of provisional measures<\/em><\/a> contained in Nicaragua\u2019s Application. Nicaragua asks the Court to indicate provisional measures as a matter of extreme urgency, pending the Court\u2019s determination on the merits of the case, with respect to Germany\u2019s \u201cparticipation in the ongoing plausible genocide and serious breaches of international humanitarian law and other peremptory norms of general international law occurring in the Gaza Strip\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule for the hearings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monday 8 April 2024 10 a.m.-12 noon.: Oral argument (Nicaragua)<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 9 April 2024 10 a.m.-12 noon.: Oral argument (Germany)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; To learn more about all ICJ cases related to the question of Palestine, click here to visit the dedicated webpage. &nbsp; 15 March 2024 Proceedings instituted by Nicaragua against Germany on 1 March 2024 Request for the indication of provisional measures Public hearings to be held on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 April 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/public-hearings-icj-press-release\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[846,1020],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[1777],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,5811,2005,6790],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542,6541],"class_list":["post-298791","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-germany","country-nicaragua","document-category-press-release","document-source-international-court-of-justice-icj","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-convention-genocide","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-genocide","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english","document-language-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/298791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/298791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298797,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/298791\/revisions\/298797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=298791"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=298791"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=298791"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=298791"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=298791"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=298791"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=298791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}