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09 Apr What’s the Status of the US-Canada Boundary after Medellin?
...legal authority for enforcing the boundary line at all? Is there some statute out there that authorizes the Executive Branch to maintain the boundary line where it is and keep folks from crossing it, moving it, or building much larger obstructions than a 3 foot retaining wall? If not, could Medellin have the unintended consequence of wiping out our border with Canada until Congress legislates it? Now, I’d assume that the courts would not go so far, even if that’s the direction Medellin clearly points. For example, I’d expect that,...16 Mar Bluefin Tuna, Polar Bears, and Elephants at the Parties Meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
...scare tactics at world talks on wildlife protection on Monday as it campaigned against a proposal to curb trade in bluefin tuna, the succulent sushi delicacy…. “Japan’s lobbying is formidable. Three or four people from the Japanese delegation are constantly criss-crossing the Convention, arranging meetings,” he told AFP. On Sunday, Japanese delegates met with some African nations, said a negotiator from west Africa. “We are used to it. They do the same thing before each meeting of the International Whaling Commission,” the body that oversees global whale populations, he said....23 Oct Book Symposium The Electronic Silk Road: New Trade Rules for Cross-Border Flows of Information?
...(be it GATS, services chapters in FTAs or the plurilateral TISA under negotiation) classify “trade in services” remains very much linked to the idea of physically supplying a service from one country to one other country, with either “the service” crossing the border (mode 1), the consumer physically traveling to the place where the supplier is located (mode 2) or the supplier setting up a physical “commercial presence” (mode 3), or sending a “natural person” (mode 4), to the country of consumption. This focus on the physical is a far...25 Aug 20 Things About Americans and the World
...patriotism seem to be universal values. I remember trying to cross the street once in Palau, one of the smallest countries in the world, and a high school kid came up to me and said, “This is how we cross the street in PALAU!” Even crossing the street became an act to tell me about his pride in his country. People involved in making foreign policy should be very aware of this. 13) America and Canada share a common culture. This may irk Canadians, but we really do share a...25 May A Breath of Fresh Air as the Supreme Court of Malawi Breaks Rank with Its Own Precedent and Peers in Southern Africa: Part 1
...prescriptions of the law; the focus being on maximizing the numbers by whatever means, without complying with the law.” In my view, the Supreme Court of Malawi’s departure from the quantitative approach is a welcome development because, it places the need to comply with electoral rules at the center of election management and litigation. In 2015, SADC Member States adopted a set of electoral principles and guidelines known as SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections. These principles enjoin SADC Member states to ensure that they conduct regular, free and...11 Jul A Canal Runs Through It
...feet apart with hazard signs in English and Spanish (apparently not every canal-crossing large mammal is bilingual). But ladders won’t cut it, plaintiffs argue, and many more deer will drown if they are forced to climb canal ladders rather than traverse escape ridges. That argument works, right? No. Why not? Well, the problem is there are no large American mammals trying to cross the All American Canal! The court concluded that following a year of deer tracking and aerial surveillance there was no sign of deer in the area in...17 Jan Some Thoughts on the Politics and Power Struggles of “Global South” Diversity
...my identity as a white Peruvian in Peru and as a Latin American anywhere north of the 30°N parallel, was at the root of my confusion that day. Certainly, I had not transformed into a person of colour overnight, by the sheer fact of crossing an invisible line that separated the Global South from the Global North, right? And yet the categories available seemed frustratingly limited. I don’t think the politics of my situation as a (white) (Latino) migrant are the same as that of a white person from Europe...
03 Jan The ICC Prosecutor’s Double Standards in the Time of an Unfolding Genocide
...statements shortly after the start of the Russian 2022 invasion. A Shift in The Prosecutor’s Approach to the Palestine Situation Since the 29th October 2023 The Palestine situation constitutes one of most widely documented contexts of alleged commission of international crimes. It took to the Prosecutor 23 days since the Hamas attacks (1,139 killed in Israel and 8.005 deaths in Gaza, including 3.324 children), to take direct and public action in the situation in Palestine. On 29 October, Khan visited the Rafah crossing point between Gaza and Egypt, which was...
09 Aug Solidarity “A La Carte”: The EU’s Response to Boat Migration
...conclusion, given the above, we argue that informal, partial and ad hoc solidarity seems to have taken asylum policy back to a pre-CEAS intergovernmentalism approach which threatens the EU credibility and legitimacy in this area. It does so by circumventing the solidarity obligations in the EU treaties. The structural flaws of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) including the failure of the Dublin Regulation is the backdrop against which current trends discussed above must be understood. The situation of the rescued migrants and refugees crossing the Mediterranean should be compared...10 Jan UN Heal Thyself
...place. As the Washington Post reports today, Volcker uncovered serious problems in the Commission’s auditing function, including troubling allegations that the Commission paid out undocumented claims against the Iraq government by third countries: The auditors cited several cases in which countries made huge, undocumented claims. Iran claimed $2.7 billion in costs for providing humanitarian assistance to waves of refugees crossing its border. It received $7.87 million. Jordan put in a claim for more than $6.5 billion for providing relief to people fleeing Kuwait and Iraq, but received $72 million. Israel,...