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06 Jun Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, June 6, 2013
South Korea has agreed to negotiate with North Korea on the reopening of a joint industrial park that was closed in April after rising tensions. The ICC Prosecutor has reported to the UN Security Council on the situation in Darfur. The EU Counter-Terrorism Co-ordinator wants member states to do more to restrict their citizens travelling to Syria to fight with extremist groups. Syrian rebels have seized the only border crossing between Syria and Israel on the Golan Heights. The IMF has issued a report admitting that it made mistakes in...
30 Sep India – China Conflict, POWs and the IHL Selectivity Redux
...the very next day by the Indian army. During the three days period (15th to 18th June), no information was provided on the whereabouts of the Indian soldiers. In the highly militarised and border-obsessive countries, the reluctance of both governments to publicly accept the detention of the uniformed men makes it all seem kafkaesque. While both countries did not recognise the Galwan clashes as ‘war’ and continued to reflect on the situation as a mere ‘incident of crossing over the border’, the factual situation on the ground attracted the invocation...
11 Jul The New STCoA: The Good, the Bad, the Curious, and the Terrible
...personal immunity applies at the STCoA, in the “bad” category. I’m putting it in the “good” category for two reasons. First, given that there is no argument that an STCoA created by the CoE and Ukraine qualifies as “international” within the meaning of Arrest Warrant, denying personal immunity to the so-called “troika” would violate international law. And second, I think the provision is actually pretty clever, going right up to the Arrest Warrant line without actually crossing it. The Arrest Warrant judgment basically prohibits any national exercise of enforcement jurisdiction,...03 Sep Washington Post Stories on the CIA and JSOC – and My Prediction of Harold Koh’s Legacy as Legal Adviser
...the target than conventional military operations would require — this is, after all, what makes it intelligence-driven targeted killing. In that particular aspect, covert action (again speaking loosely) ought to have standards that are higher than simply those that are and legally should be applied to that other use of drones – not targeted killing, but instead the targeting of a mass of combatants id’d as fighters crossing the Afghan border to fight Americans. (Drones have a role in both conventional warfare and special operations targeted killing, but the latter...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...01 Jun Weekday News Wrap: Friday, June 1, 2012
...in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Canada has finalized its withdrawal from the UN World Tourism Office following the decision to appoint Robert Mugabe as tourism ambassador. The UN meanwhile disputes that it involves a formal appointment. Aung San Suu Kyi has warned against “reckless optimism” over the reforms in Myanmar and has asked foreign investors to focus on job creation to defuse the time bomb of high youth employment. An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian gunman were killed at a border crossing in Gaza this morning. The Italian Supreme Court...
06 Nov Forced Displacement of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh: A Response
...retroactivity to 10 May 2021. Thus, the ICC will have jurisdiction over the displacement of the Armenians the same way that it does over that of the Rohingya for acts of deportation “by expulsion or other coercive acts” under Articles 7(1)(d) and 7(2)(d) by virtue of victims crossing the border from a State not Party to a State Party to the Rome Statute (see here, para. 73). To the extent that such deportation targeted the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh as the Rohingya on impermissible grounds (e.g. ethnic, religious, political, or other),...
01 May Beyond Territoriality: Symposium on Jurisdictional “Hooks” for (Extraterritorial) Human Rights Obligations – Human Rights Relationships Across Borders in the Triple Planetary Crisis
...of both state obligations and business responsibilities in relation to environmental and climate justice, topics I have explored inspired by the work of Knop and others. A relational approach flows easily if the starting point is international environmental law, rather than international human rights law. For example, physical border crossing movements of hazardous substances (such as air or water pollution) from a state of origin that impact the territory of a second state are generally understood as transboundary. This idea is reflected in Principle 2 of the Rio Declaration, often...18 Jun The Great Tomato Trade Wars
...that all exports to the United States have come to a complete halt. “We can’t sell a single box of tomatoes,” said Jesus Macias, sales manager at the Productora Agricola Industrial del Noreste in the border state of Baja California. “Mexican growers said their produce is subject to double the scrutiny that U.S. tomatoes face: inspected first by Mexican officials and then again at the border when crossing into the U.S.” The FDA salmonella warning provides a useful heuristic about the intersection between international trade litigation and investment arbitration. I...
07 Feb Biometric Data, Data Protection Authorities, and Migrants: A Complex Nexus
...the Italian Department of Public Security: Data refer to disembarkation events recorded before 8 a.m. until 8 September 2023. Although it may appear that the most difficult and complicated part is the sea crossing, people arriving on European shores are faced with another part of the journey that is no less important for their future: the identification and asylum application procedure. Leaving aside the technical aspects of the latter, what is addressed here are the critical issues that the identification procedure entails with respect to the protection of personal data enshrined...