13 Jul Weekday News Wrap: Friday, July 13, 2012
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- Reports say that over 200 civilians have been massacred in execution-style killings in the Hama region of Syria after government forces bombarded the area with helicopter gunships and tanks yesterday.
- Following talks with the International Olympic Committee, for the first time Saudi Arabia will send female athletes to London to compete in this year’s Olympic Games. Human Rights Watch points out this breakthrough but also highlights the barriers for female athletes who want to participate in sports inside the Kingdom.
- In other Olympics news, the 2012 Games (the UK’s largest ever peacetime security operation) have put a large amount of stress on Great Britain’s spy agencies.
- After being taken to the hospital for tests, Ratko Mladic remains hospitalized for a second day and his trial at the ICTY has been adjourned until he is fit enough to continue.
- IPS points to a recently released report stating the UN is increasingly reliant on private military and security contractors to carry out its missions across the globe.
- In more commentary to the 14-year sentence for Thomas Lubanga Dyilo at the ICC earlier this week, Professor William Schabas offers his analysis of the sentencing and IPS covers the negative reaction from a collection of NGO’s in the Democratic Republic of the Congo about the Court’s judgment, labeling it inadequate and potentially dangerous.
- Professor Schabas also points to the University of Virginia Law Library, which has recently created the Tokyo War Crimes Trial: A Digital Exhibition, an archive containing documents related to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (the “Tokyo Tribunal”).
- The United States will host approximately 12 countries for a two-day meeting with the US State Department and the Department of Transportation at the end of this month to discuss their opposition to a new EU law forcing foreign airlines to pay for greenhouse gas emissions.
- At this week’s ASEAN Summit, South China Sea issues dominate discussion.
- The United States has strengthened its military presence in the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea to prevent Iran from blocking the Strait of Hormuz with mines.
- SCOTUS Blog is hosting an online symposium about the Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, the case currently before the US Supreme Court involving transnational human rights litigation.
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