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Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Rwanda)

International Court of Justice

2006 I.C.J. No. 126

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The DRC (plaintiff) sued Rwanda (defendant) over alleged military activities, invoking jurisdictional clauses in several treaties, but Rwanda had entered reservations to the Genocide Convention's dispute-resolution clause that it never formally communicated as withdrawn (despite a later peace agreement referencing withdrawal of reservations to human rights agreements generally), and the DRC never attempted negotiations or arbitration under the separate Convention on Discrimination against Women before suing.

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Whether a court's jurisdiction over an international dispute may ever be established by a treaty.

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