#India supreme court hearing case that could reverse controversial 2019 legislation taking away #Kashmir's self-rule, splitting it in two, and downgrading it from state of India to a central govt controlled territory. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/2/india-top-court-hears-petitions-challenging-kashmir-special-status-removal
#autonomy #admin1 #disputedterritory #statehood #politicalgeography #geography #SouthAsia @geography @geopolitics
#southasia #geography #politicalgeography #statehood #disputedterritory #admin1 #autonomy #Kashmir #India
#Venezuela apparently didn't outright reject ruling that #WorldCourt (#ICJ) can resolve its #territorialdispute with #Guyana, which will be considered binding under international law, despite largely boycotting the proceedings so far. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/world-court-says-it-can-rule-guyana-venezuela-border-dispute-2023-04-06/
#geography #internationallaw #IL #geopolitics #Caribbean #borders #disputedterritory
#disputedterritory #borders #caribbean #geopolitics #il #internationallaw #geography #Guyana #territorialdispute #icj #worldcourt #Venezuela
The disputed area claimed by #Venezuela, known as the #Essequibo or #GuayanaEsequiba, makes up 3/4 of #Guyana's total area (based on current control), but less than 1/3 of its population. The seas off its coast contain major oil resources.
#geography #geopolitics #geographyteacher #SouthAmerica #Caribbean #borders #borderstudies #internationallaw #disputedterritory #borders #geography #worldcourt #ICJ
#icj #worldcourt #disputedterritory #internationallaw #borderstudies #borders #caribbean #SouthAmerica #geographyteacher #geopolitics #geography #Guyana #GuayanaEsequiba #Essequibo #Venezuela
Proposal for #Lesotho to initiate territorial dispute over large parts of #SouthAfrica says it relies on a 1962 UN resolution. That resolution advocates Lesotho's independence, but doesn't seem to imply it should have any more territory than it does today. https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/204509?ln=en
#irridentism #geography #internationallaw #borders #ethnonationalism #decolonization #disputedterritory #territorialdispute #enclaves
#enclaves #territorialdispute #disputedterritory #decolonization #ethnonationalism #borders #internationallaw #geography #irridentism #southafrica #Lesotho
#Lesotho legislature discussing whether to claim large parts of #SouthAfrica, which would more than quadruple the country's claimed size. https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/world/2023-03-29-lesotho-mps-to-discuss-reclaiming-parts-of-south-africa/
#irridentism #geography #borders #disputedterritory #territorialdispute #enclaves #landlocked
#landlocked #enclaves #territorialdispute #disputedterritory #borders #geography #irridentism #southafrica #Lesotho
International Court of Justice (#ICJ) has ordered #Azerbaijan to help clear protester blockade of #LachinCorridor, supply route connecting #Armenia to self-declared #Artsakh republic in #NagornoKarabakh.
https://www.icj-cij.org/public/files/case-related/180/180-20230222-PRE-01-00-EN.pdf
#geography #geopolitics #worldpolitics #Caucasus #disputedterritory #defactostates #internationalpolitics #internationallaw
#internationallaw #InternationalPolitics #defactostates #disputedterritory #caucasus #worldpolitics #geopolitics #geography #nagornokarabakh #artsakh #Armenia #lachincorridor #Azerbaijan #icj
Crew members onboard a Philippine coast guard vessel were temporarily blinded after the lasers targeted their ship.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bmye/china-shoots-lasers-at-philippines-ship
#SouthChinaSea #conflict #china #phillipines #disputedterritory
#southchinasea #Conflict #China #phillipines #disputedterritory
#Belize is taking #Honduras to court, hoping to invalidate the latter country's claim to the #SapodillaCayes, a group of small, uninhabited #Caribbean islands administered by Belize. https://icj-cij.org/public/files/case-related/185/185-20221117-PRE-01-00-EN.pdf
#ICJ #WorldCourt #geography #borders #islands #disputedterritory
#disputedterritory #islands #borders #geography #worldcourt #icj #caribbean #sapodillacayes #Honduras #Belize
#Belize is taking #Honduras to court, hoping to invalidate the latter country's claim to the #SapodillaCayes, a group of small, uninhabited #Caribbean islands administered by Belize. https://icj-cij.org/public/files/case-related/185/185-20221117-PRE-01-00-EN.pdf
#ICJ #WorldCourt #geography #borders #islands #disputedterritory
#disputedterritory #islands #borders #geography #worldcourt #icj #caribbean #sapodillacayes #Honduras #Belize