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02 Jun The UN’s New Report on Targeted Killing
...governing their use in situations of armed conflict.” The clearest challenge to this principal today, according to the independent expert, comes from the program operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency in which targeted killings are carried out from unmanned aerial vehicles or drones. “It is clear that many hundreds of people have been killed, and that this number includes some innocent civilians. Because the program remains shrouded in official secrecy, the international community does not know when and where the CIA is authorized to kill, the criteria for individuals...25 Jan The ICC and Mainstream TV: A Recent Episode of The Blacklist
...because the US is not a party to the ICC. (Venezeula, of course, is). On the other hand, the writers glossed over the fact that “delivering” a high level US government official to the ICC’s front door does not equal a referral – the ICC has the power to determine whether its jurisdictional requirements are met under Arts. 12 & 13 of the Rome Statute. The other creative fiction of the show is that the ICC has an ongoing investigation into US activities (drones, torture, and rendition). In reality, the...12 Feb The Shift from Proportionality to Necessity and an Indirect Comment on Gaby Blum’s Article
...name of “necessity” in treating non-state actors, but the reciprocal obligations elaborated for soldiers turn out to mean nothing, as usual. In any case, it does not seem to me to travel outside this special circumstance. In the case of targeted killing using drones or special forces, in counterterrorism rather than part of a conventional overt conflict, or outside the overt parts of it, however, I think it is a useful and important discussion. Necessity and distinction take center stage, because the status is not self-defining through uniforms or such....20 Jun Events and Announcements: 20 June 2022
...be equitably and meaningfully shared with the Global South? How does current knowledge allow us to understand and respond to forms of children’s association with violence that take place in regions not affected by armed conflict? And how can this knowledge base contribute to moderating the global “victim” discourse?What about the involvement of children with cyber-conflict, drones, and autonomous weapon systems? In the end, here, we aim to diminish the ‘us and them’ binary approaches to child soldiers that divides according to age, place, and space. We welcome proposals for...
12 Aug Emerging Voices: The Use of ‘Stabilization’ in the Mandates of UN Peace Operations
...supported by attack helicopters and drones, and has had skirmishes with armed groups, make the intensification of hostilities a distinct possibility. Where there are sustained, direct clashes between MINUSMA and armed groups it would be difficult for the UN to contest the applicability of IHL. Whether a peace operation is a party to the conflict under IHL is also relevant where the UN is providing support to the host state military. Peace operations do not typically fight a war against an enemy but, for instance, MINUSMA is mandated to conduct...29 Jun Too Bad Administration’s WPR “Hostilities” Gambit Isn’t Working (It Might Have)
...contingency planning — there are lots of reasons not to get into quagmires, but the WPR isn’t one of them. At the same time that Koh seemed to be playing up the spirit of the WPR in his live testimony, he also persuasively highlighted how the vision of the 1973 Congress doesn’t really jive with the present day world. (See this from Slate’s William Saletan on Koh’s apparent argument that the WPR doesn’t cover drones.) And even though Senator Kerry said that the Administration has “affirmed” the constitutionality of the...05 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Friday, April 5, 2013
...on International Law and the Future of Peace upon receiving the Prominent Women in International Law award during yesterday’s ASIL Women in International Law Interest Group Luncheon. Foreign Policy outlines the dangers of low-tech warfare in Why Sticks and Stones Will Beat Our Drones. The Christian Science Monitor has an article discussing the options available to the EU in response to Hungary’s latest instalment of controversial constitutional amendments. EU authorities have also expressed concern over legislative proposals in Egypt to curtain civil society. Syria has stepped up propaganda efforts against...01 Mar Weekday News Wrap: Friday, March 1, 2013
...moving ahead with its plans to establish a North Korea trade zone. The ruling on compelling the United States to hand over evidence against Kim Dotcom, accused of mass copyright infringement, money laundering and internet piracy, has been overturned by the court of appeal in New Zealand. In case you were hoping to submit public comment to proposed changes to the IAHCR, the deadline is today. In light of Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, Esquire has a post about why the drones used by the US are just a sideshow....08 Jun Weekly News Wrap: Monday, June 8, 2015
...United Nations resolutions. Vietnam is in talks with European and U.S. contractors to buy fighter jets, maritime patrol planes and unarmed drones, sources said, as it looks to beef up its aerial defenses in the face of China’s growing assertiveness in disputed waters. Europe Group of Seven (G7) leaders vowed at a summit in the Bavarian Alps on Sunday to keep sanctions against Russia in place until President Vladimir Putin and Moscow-backed separatists fully implement the terms of a peace deal for Ukraine. Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders will discuss...