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04 Jan Weekly News Wrap: January 4, 2016
...demands to limit the rights of European Union migrants if London helps it bolster the NATO presence in central Europe, Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski told Reuters. The head of a special team investigating alleged abuses by British soldiers in Iraq has said he’s confident there will be sufficient evidence for war crimes prosecutions. Americas The U.S.-led coalition carried out 24 strikes against Islamic State militants on Wednesday, putting pressure on the group around Ramadi and Mosul in Iraq and along the Mar’a line in Syria, the U.S. military said in...17 Nov Weekly News Wrap: Monday, November 17, 2014
...the communique released at the end of a two-day summit in Brisbane. UN/World Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are committing war crimes and crimes against humanity on a large scale in areas under the group’s control in Syria, UN investigators say. In its first report focused squarely on acts by ISIL, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria presented on Friday a horrifying picture of what life was like in areas controlled by the group, including massacres, beheadings, torture, sexual enslavement and forced pregnancy....07 Apr Weekend Roundup: March 31 – April 6, 2012
...“foreign law”, and discussed the legal differences between the Libyan intervention and a possible military intervention in Syria. He also questioned why the faculty of Osgoode Hall Law School rejected a $60 million donation for the study of international law. Deborah Pearlstein challenged claims that the political and legal difficulties surrounding detention have caused an increase in the targeted killing operations. Kevin Heller posted about the disarray at the ECCC, as catalogued in a note by the recently resigned International Co-Investigating Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet. Kevin argued that while Henry Ford...01 May Humanitarian Intervention
Wilbur Ross, the Secretary of Commerce: Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross recalled the scene at Mar-a-Lago on April 6, when the summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping was interrupted by the strike on Syria. “Just as dessert was being served, the president explained to Mr. Xi he had something he wanted to tell him, which was the launching of 59 missiles into Syria,” Ross said. “It was in lieu of after-dinner entertainment.” As the crowd laughed, Ross added: “The thing was, it...
16 Feb Symposium on Rewriting Histories of the Use of Force: What Narratives Do
...by mythical belief, blind faith, or a kind of stubborn optimism that has turned out to be cruel. Other recent contributions within the discipline have followed a similar pattern, across different fields of inquiry. Sigrid Boysen has, for instance, drawn attention to the narrative effects that it has had when the field of international environmental law places its origins at the 1972 Stockholm Conference, thereby seeking to distance the law from its entanglements with patterns of colonial exploitation. Or one may consider Jessica Whyte’s history of human rights, which draws...