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24 Aug Weekly News Wrap: Monday, August 24, 2015
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Suspected Boko Haram militants ambushed a convoy carrying Nigeria’s chief of army staff on a tour of towns in troubled Borno state, the army said early on Sunday. Middle East and Northern Africa The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has blown up a 2,000-year-old temple in the UNESCO-listed Syrian city of Palmyra, a rights group and the country’s antiquities chief have said. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has said that its...
12 Jul Reparations for War in Ukraine: A Harm-Based Approach
...(often decades), subject to judicial and political challenge, and prioritising resources to those most affected. The UN guidance on reparations remains declaratory on the norms for violations in war, and more recently we have outlined more specific best practices on how to implement such norms under the Belfast Guidelines. The efforts towards establishing a compensation claims commission for the war in Ukraine need to keep in mind that compensation by itself will not effectively remedy the harm caused and needs a nuanced approach to eligibility. Many reparations programmes developed at...
18 Oct Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza
...already been displaced, and Israeli forces have bombed the only possible exit route that Israel does not control, the Rafah crossing to Egypt multiple times. The World Health Organisation published a warning that “[f]orcing more than 2000 patients to relocate to southern Gaza, where health facilities are already running at maximum capacity and unable to absorb a dramatic rise in the number patients, could be tantamount to a death sentence”. There has also been an escalation of violence, arrests, expulsions, and destruction of whole Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank...15 Feb Luban on the Ethical Implications of the Torture Memos
...that no one has ever been disciplined for this kind ethical line-crossing when it comes to “candid advice-giving.” And, at least as regards the Geneva Conventions question, the client (President Bush, through his counsel, Alberto Gonzales) had access to the alternative view put forth by State. It nonetheless is an important discussion of slippery slope of ends-based advocacy, one which bears discussion with our students. No doubt, there are strong views on where the ethical line is appropriately drawn. To promote open discussion of this issue, ASIL has placed it...22 Jun Weekly News Wrap: Monday, June 22nd, 2015
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa South Africa’s main opposition on Sunday called for a full investigation into the government’s failure to arrest Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, who is due to face charges of genocide at the International Criminal Court. Somali armed group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for an attack on a military compound in Mogadishu where Somali intelligence officials train, claiming it killed “many intelligence forces”. Middle East and Northern Africa More than 20 air strikes by Arab forces hit...04 Nov Treaties, Contracts, or Political Commitments? What’s the Status of the China-Taiwan Deals?
...60 round trips per month crossing the 180-kilometre (112-mile) Taiwan Strait separating the island from China. For the most part these stories have focused on the economic and political aspects of these deals, i.e., looking at how business pressures moved the two sides together, the thawing of relations this signals, and the backlash within Taiwan that’s emerged to what some perceive as capitulation to the PRC by Taiwan’s government. I’m interested, however, in the legal implications of these deals. I haven’t been able to locate copies of the agreement texts,...
28 Sep Human Rights as Human Rights: Generating Enforceable Human Rights Standards by Shifting the Intrastate Solution from Moral Rhetoric to Strategic Legal Discourse (Part II)
...these elements, and for which the citizenry can help to hold its government accountable, is the United States’ 2018 “zero-tolerance policy” concerning the separation of immigrant families upon entering the country. In writing, the policy intended to criminally prosecute 100% of immigrants crossing the United States-Mexico border with their children and without prior authorization. In practice, the policy not only deterred immigration, but punished children for action taken by their parents. This punishment included separating children from their parents and siblings for an indefinite period – sometimes for months at...06 Aug ICC Submissions and the “Continuing Violation” (Non-)Doctrine
...for fear that it might also shed light on the fate and whereabouts of the missing Swapo detainees. The NSHR also wants Nujoma to be tried for gross violations in the Kavango region, which borders Angola, between 1994 and 1996. At the height of Unita’s attacks on northern Namibia, Nujoma imposed a state of emergency and ordered security forces to shoot on sight anyone crossing or found near the border. The article betrays a complete failure to understand how the ICC operates. The fact that the Prosecutor is “weighing the...15 Aug Weekly News Wrap: Monday, August 15, 2016
Here’s your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa At least 64 people have been killed in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in an attack carried out by suspected rebels. Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has published a video apparently showing recent footage of dozens of school girls kidnapped two years ago, and saying some of them have been killed in air strikes. South Sudan said on Sunday it would consider the U.N.’s decision to authorize sending extra troops to the country...
26 Jun A Libyan Playground for Foreign Powers: Presenting the Case for ‘Negative Equality’
...other military equipment. Over the course of six months, the Turks tipped the scales squarely in favour of the GNA – with a battle currently looming over the strategic coastal city of Sirte. Haftar’s foreign backers – including Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Russia and France – were left scrambling to formulate a firm response. That response came on Saturday 20 June, when Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi boldly declared Sirte and the inland al Jufra air base a red line, the crossing of which would trigger a direct...