Abstract
Until recently, it was rare for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to decide cases based in international human rights law, particularly in its contentious jurisdiction. 1 Yet, the ongoing Case concerning Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination between Georgia and Russia has brought to the Court a dispute relating only, due to the limits of the Court's jurisdiction, to a specialised human rights treaty. Georgia brought the case during the recent armed conflict between it and the Russian Federation, after Russian forces had on 8 August 2008 entered Georgian territory. Russia had ostensibly acted to support the Georgian breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, following armed action against the former by the Georgian government. But the roots of the conflict are much deeper. 2 In the case now before the Court, Georgia complains not only of events in the...
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