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26 Jun Weekday News Wrap: June 26, 2012
As NATO meets over the downing of Turkey’s jet by Syria, Turkey has also written to the UN Security Council that the attack is a “serious threat to peace and security”. The EU foreign ministers have urged Turkey to exercise restraint in its responses. Meanwhile, Syria has allegedly shot at a second Turkish jet. In an interview, the Director-General of MI5 has revealed that the UK has faced 11 credible terrorist threats since 2001, and that the terror threat has been widening since the Arab Spring. Rwanda’s foreign minister has...04 Jun Weekday News Wrap: Monday, June 4, 2012
...armed forces near the Colombia-Venezuela border. Syrian President Assad has condemned the massacre in Houla and has promised that the violence will end if Syrians pull together. He has denied involvement in the massacre. Regarding the Syria situation, Foreign Policy in Focus has called for an intervention…with Russia. CNN provides more about upcoming diplomatic efforts in Syria. The US Ambassador to France has marked the 68th anniversary of D-Day with a mass parachute jump in Normandy. The 23rd anniversary of the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square is creating overtime for...
11 Apr Blurring the Lines – Non-State Actors as Perpetrators of Enforced Disappearance
...are the instances where the de jure State is absent due to having lost control over a territory, with disappearances through non-State actors occurring under such circumstances. This may, for instance, be the case during a non-international armed conflict, where civilians find themselves living under the control of armed non-State actors. One only has to think of the time when the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) gained effective control over large parts of north-western Iraq and Eastern Syria, exercising control over 10 million people, with many individuals disappearing...30 Dec Weekly News Wrap: Monday, December 30, 2013
...has filed its first WTO complaint, against the EU’s energy policies. Following political protests, Ukraine is resuming negotations with EU. The UN has condemned UK PM Cameron’s immigration policies Middle East Israel-Gaza skirmishes were followed by the closure of the border crossing for goods. Gaza’s only power plant had to stop operations a few days later, but Jerusalem denies that this was caused by the blockade. Egypt has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization Hundreds of civilians killed in air raids in Aleppo, Syria. Meanwhile, President Assad has outlined...
19 Nov International Responses to the Obstruction of Humanitarian Aid
[ Eian Katz is Counsel and Program Manager at Public International Law and Policy Group. Opinions expressed here are his own. ] Recent allegations that Turkey has prevented humanitarian aid from reaching Nagorno-Karabakh mark the latest instance of a disturbing trend in global conflicts. In recent months, belligerent actors have engaged in similar acts of obstructionism in Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen to dire humanitarian effect. The abject politicization of aid delivery flouts the purported “right to humanitarian assistance” and necessitates a more forceful and coherent international response. Sovereign Consent Under international...
20 Apr ICC Sanctions Symposium: Sanctions and Exceptionalism
...Central African Republic, Guinea, Uganda, Syria, Iraq all received special mention. They highlighted the financial and in-kind support it offered to the Extraordinary African Chambers that tried former Chadian President Habré, the Specialist Chambers in Kosovo, the Special Criminal Court in the CAR and even towards Guinea’s efforts to bring to trial those responsible for the brutal crimes against civilians during the 2009 stadium massacre. All this changed the day that the ICC decided to turn its attention to the atrocities in Afghanistan, one of its member states. USA Government...09 Mar Weekly News Wrap: Monday, March 9, 2015
...to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Middle East and Northern Africa U.S. and coalition forces conducted five air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria and nine in Iraq since early Sunday, the U.S. military said on Monday. The Arab League called for the creation of a regional force to combat militants as countries face a growing threat from Islamic State and other groups. Islamic State militants in Libya seized a group of foreigners (from Austria, the Czech republic, Bangladesh, the Philippines and at least one...