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27 Jun Weekday News Wrap: June 27, 2012
As a second boat of refugees in less than a week sinks on its way from Indonesia to Australia’s Christmas Island, Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard wants to revive an earlier plan to have refugees processed in Malaysia in exchange for the acceptance of genuine refugees. Syria’s President Assad has claimed that his country is in a state of war. Notwithstanding the recent wave of defections, US intelligence reveals that Assad’s inner circle is still intact. Senior UN diplomats are convening a meeting of world leaders on Syria for this...
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...07 Jul Weekly News Wrap: Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Burundi’s parliamentary elections on Monday were not fair or free and human rights were violated, the United Nations said on Thursday. Middle East and Northern Africa US President Barack Obama has said that the US-led coalition battling fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was “intensifying” its campaign against the armed group’s base in Syria. A suicide bomber from Syria’s al-Qaeda offshoot – the Nusra Front – has blown himself up...14 Jul Weekly News Wrap: Monday, July 14, 2014
...on Saturday as a U.N. envoy warned of chaos if divided lawmakers did not make progress on Sunday towards naming a government. Europe must open its doors to more Syrian refugees, having welcomed only a “miniscule” number while Syria’s neighbors have reached “saturation point”, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday appointed veteran U.N. official Staffan de Mistura, a former U.N. special envoy to Afghanistan and Iraq, to replace Lakhdar Brahimi as the international mediator seeking an end to Syria’s civil war....15 Aug New Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Report Out
The United Nations Secretary General’s fifth Report on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) was released last week. This Report is titled “State Responsibility and Prevention” and focuses generally on governance mechanisms and early warning. It also mentions the situation in Syria, stating that “[r]ecent events, including in the Syrian Arab Republic, underline the vital importance of early action to prevent atrocity crimes and the terrible consequences when prevention fails.” On the whole, the Report is consistent with prior work, but doesn’t contain much that is new. The Report focuses in...17 Jul Bush/Blair Sidebar at the G-8
...is what they need to is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it’s all over… Blair: Dunno… Syria…. Bush: Why? Blair: Because I think this is all part of the same thing… Bush: (with mouth full of bread) Yeah Blair: Look – what does he think? He thinks if Lebanon turns out fine. If you get a solution in Israel and Palestine. Iraq goes in the right way Bush: Yeah – he’s [through] Blair: Yeah…. He’s had it. That’s what all this is about –...