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10 Mar Online Symposium: The Globalization of High Seas Interdiction–Sale’s Legacy and Beyond
...decades. Unauthorized border crossing into the European Union has reached its highest levels since record-keeping began in 2008, and the majority of these migrants arrive by sea. Approximately 17,000 unauthorized boat migrants arrived in Australia in 2012, a staggering increase from previous years. Migrant interdiction and migration by sea also triggers its own escalating dynamic. The highly visible tragedies that often result from these dangerous voyages and the bad publicity they spawn spur more intensive policing operations, which, paradoxically, lead to greater risk-taking by those migrants attempting to penetrate intensified...26 Oct US-Mexico Fence Could Be an Ecological Disaster
...cactuses, to the birds that eat them, right up to the large predators like the jaguars,” said William Radke, the manager of the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, east of Douglas, Arizona. Radke said the fence would prevent snakes and turtles, as well as wild turkeys and road runners from crossing. In addition, the bright lights at the top of the tall fence would interfere with birds’ ability to navigate by the stars. “A lot of migratory birds actually migrate at night, using stellar navigation and the moon to navigate....06 Jul Weekend Roundup: June 29-July 5, 2013
This week on Opinio Juris, Kevin posted how there will be no golden arches in the West Bank, kept track of the latest episode of Crossing Lines, and wondered about the anonymity of an ICTY witness whose name was made public by the ICTY. Ken turned the spotlight back to the Chevron/Ecuador dispute. A Washington Post profile on the dispute led him to inquire about third-party litigation finance. He also pointed to Julian’s WSJ op-ed, with George Conway, on Chevron’s legal offensive. Julian has been busy, he also posted an...23 Apr The U.S. Relationship with the ICC Blossoms into a Love Affair?
...the foreseeable future. And the Palestine investigation that Kevin mentions below is going to return the ICC to the U.S. Congress’ attention in the context of Israeli relations, which is the absolute worst context for the ICC. I would say the ICC’s only hope of US ratification one day lies in a slow cultural change. Perhaps this new NBC drama “Crossing Lines” will help. Then again, since it seems to propose that the ICC will operate with a shadowy investigative team of former cops, I wonder if this might backfire…...
01 Aug ICC ratione loci Jurisdiction for Belarus: The Bangladesh/Myanmar Blueprint
...7(1)(d) encompassed two distinct crimes, deportation and forcible transfer, with the former involving a victim crossing an international border. The Chamber acknowledged that the crime of deportation implies that “the conduct related to this crime necessarily takes place on the territories of at least two States”. Consequently, the Court can exercise jurisdiction over the crime of deportation when it is initiated in a non-State Party and completed upon the forcible transfer of victims to a State Party. Following this, on 4 July 2019, the OTP submitted a request to open...
15 Oct The Global Risk in Trump’s AI Action Plan and the Need for Governance
...General Assembly, calling for action to develop “red lines” on AI development before the “window for meaningful intervention closes.” We agree. In this post we examine, first, how Trump’s AI Action Plan radically increases the risk posed by AGI by sparking a nationalistic competition in AI development, and by deliberately undermining domestic and international AI regulation; and second, why and how it is increasingly urgent that we develop global governance structures designed to address the specific risks associated with AGI. The AI Action Plan – National Dominance & Anti-Governance President...
04 Jan A Response to Mariniello About the Palestine Investigation
...A. Khan KC, concludes first visit to Israel and State of Palestine by an ICC Prosecutor: “We must show that the law is there, on the front lines, and that it is capable of protecting all” – 3 December 2023 Statement of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A.A. Khan KC, on the Situation in the State of Palestine: receipt of a referral from five States Parties – 17 November 2023 Prosecutor’s Op-Ed in The Guardian and various newspapers – 10 November 2023 Press statement from Cairo –...
25 Oct Framing Critique, on Celluloid and Paper
...team members are Black.” Moreover, Insider Magazine notes that “only 6.3% of [Oscar] nominations went to Black creatives, while 2.6% went to Latinx people and 1.4% went to Asian people.” As a result, most movies produced in Hollywood have adopted white and Western frames of reference for their storylines and characters. In fact, even when the movies discuss stories involving Black, Indigenous and/or other ethnic minority characters, they tend to fall in the “White Saviour” trope, where a white person is “the great leader who saves blacks from slavery or...
27 Feb The Proposed Amendments to the International Health Regulations: An Analysis
...of health care products for effective distribution to the recipients across States Parties’ (p. 12); ‘develop and maintain a database containing details of the ingredients, components, design, know-how, manufacturing process, or any other information required to facilitate health products required for responding to the potential PHEICs’ (pp. 12-13); ‘establish a repository of cell-lines to accelerate the production of similar biotherapeutics products and vaccines’ (p. 14); ‘develop appropriate regulatory guidelines for the rapid approval of health products of quality’ (p. 14); to (presumably) build institutional capacity to globally coordinate infodemic management,...26 Oct Weekly News Wrap: Monday, October 26, 2015
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa At least 55 people have died and almost 100 were wounded after suicide bombings struck two mosques in different cities in northeast Nigeria, officials said. A senior al Shabaab commander and about 20 of his followers have pledged allegiance to Islamic State, the first move of its kind to emerge in the Somali militant group. Cameroonian soldiers drove Boko Haram insurgents back across the country’s northern border into Nigeria on Friday, a day after the...