09 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, April 9, 2013
09.04.13
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- Global leaders have paid their respects to Margaret Thatcher, the UK’s first female prime minister, after her death yesterday.
- Thousands of North Korean workers have failed to show up for work at a shared industrial complex with South Korea after the North Korean leadership said it would withdraw workers and suspend work.
- With more on the North Korea situation, Foreign Policy asks whether Kim Jong Un can use his nukes and get away with it.
- Syria has alleged that the UN is widening its scope of the current chemical weapons probe in the country.
- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has warned of a spillover from the conflict in Mali to Western Sahara.
- Uhuru Kenyatta is set to be sworn in as president in Kenya leaving backers of the International Criminal Court in a sticky situation as Kenyatta faces a warrant of arrest by the ICC.
- Human Rights Watch has a Q&A on the recent developments of the ICC regarding Kenya as well as a call to the new Kenyan leadership to uphold rights and obligations.
- The Pakistani Supreme Court ordered former president Pervez Musharraf to respond to allegations of treason stemming from his 1999 military overthrow of prime minister Nawaz Sharif and the suspension of the constitution.
- During Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Germany and the Netherlands, he was greeted by gay-rights activists and topless protesters meant to put the spotlight on Russia’s human rights record and treatment of sexual minorities.
- ECHR Blog points us to the Draft Agreement of the European Union to the European Court of Human Rights, finalized last week.
- OUP Blog has three new featured posts, one on The 1997 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, one entitled The Arms Trade Treaty: A major achievement and Lessons from Iraq 10 years on.
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