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...the Rules impose harsh penalties including criminal sanctions on intermediaries if they fail to comply with any provision of the Rules. Rule 7 states that any social media intermediary that fails to meet its obligations under the Rules would be liable for any punishment in force including the provisions of the Indian Penal Code. General Comment 34 of the UN General Assembly and the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of freedom of expression have both repeatedly affirmed that imposing penal sanctions on free speech cause a severe...

...for additional information regarding the Fall 2021 Lecture Series or other initiatives of the Society, kindly visit our website. You can also follow and engage with us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram! Call for Papers Call for Papers: “Sanctions and Africa: An International Law and Politics Conference”: Coventry University, The Graduate Institute Geneva, and University of Pretoria are pleased to announce a conference on “Sanctions and Africa: An International Law and Politics Conference” on 9-10 December 2021. The aim of the conference is to investigate and reimagine Africa as an...

...in the African state. Meanwhile, the EU has pledged to organize an international donor conference in mid-May to help with Mali’s reconstruction. The EU has eased sanctions on Zimbabwe and pledged to lift sanctions on a state-owned diamond company once fair elections have been held. North Korea on the other hand has to face increased sanctions from the EU, going beyond those already imposed by the UN Security Council. The EU has decided not to lift the arms embargo on Syria, but will increase direct support to the rebels. Meanwhile,...

...mostly be traced to Europe. Thus the very universality from which the UN draws its legitimacy is in some crucial respects more token than real. If Kosovo was an illegal and yet legitimate intervention, the reverse is true of many sanctions regimes. The Security Council is legally competent to impose sanctions. But as these sanctions became discredited for their harsh humanitarian consequences, instead of the UN legitimizing sanctions, the latter erode the UN’s legitimacy. With respect to the use of international force to avert or halt atrocity crimes inside states,...

...Council Sanctions Committee, including a determination as to whether the reasons for sanctions listings by the Council were well founded in fact. I argue that the assumption of such authority by courts to review decisions sourced in international institutions could be regarded as a move as revolutionary as Marbury v Madison and equivalent kairotic moments across domestic jurisdictions. It is not a move that should be made without significant thought being given to the legitimizing foundations of judicial authority in this context. When domestic and regional courts engage in such...

...and hard resources. Some States have made important moves, including South Africa and Nicaragua at the ICJ. Still others, like Spain and Belgium have imposed limited sanctions on Israel. But if the last 23 months of genocide shows us anything, it’s that the vast majority of other States – friend and foe alike – are still either unwilling or unable to do what is required to save the Palestinian people, no matter how bad things get.  Second, Palestine lacks the fundamental material, economic and human resources to defend itself. It...

...principled deviation from peacetime standards. A final reflection on the scope of jus post bellum comes from a related body of work I am engaged in on UN sanctions. In assessing the Security Council’s peacebuilding activities through the guise of sanctions, I have been struck by the extent to which the Security Council is an important player in the jus post bellum field. Although the Council’s actions are discretionary, sometimes inconsistent, and are not applied in a regular way to like-cases, the Council has, nonetheless, been involved in some way,...

...the largest burned areas had been punished through serious sanctions. The report stated that, ‘the Government of Indonesia claims to be serious about enforcing the law around forest fires, holding companies to account for fires on their land and deterring future fires. But this intention is not being implemented through a consistent and escalating use of serious civil/administrative sanctions against the offending companies.’ Prosecutors tending to push for lower charges is a further problem.What is more, even when serious sanctions are imposed by courts, there is weak enforcement. Greenpeace further...

...for example the procurement of DPRK-origin coal, or its STS transfer. Without domestic implementation, Setyamoko was able to successfully request the return of the illicit coal aboard the M/V Wise Honest (Case No. 682/Pid.B/2018/PN.BPP) and obtain authorisation to re-export the coal in breach, once again, of UNSC Resolutions and Indonesia’s obligations (below). As summarised by the Sanctions Committee: “The decision by the District Court to release the illicit coal and approve its re-export by the same broker who had facilitated the illegal transaction once again demonstrates the clear need for...

...the top, helping persecuted Belarusians, and ready to hold responsible those who violate human rights. The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that the EU will ‘reprogram money away from the authorities and towards civil society and vulnerable groups’, as well as EU States unanimously supporting sanctions on the Belarusian authorities. Thus, violations of human rights in Belarus should meet a proportional reaction from the international community, in the form of sanctions, or help for the victims of persecution. Right to self-determination Secondly, according to the...

...by the reviewer. Characterizing Murphy’s analysis of the evolution from blanket to smart sanctions as brilliant, Popovski fully agrees with the author’s conclusions and provides another argument in addition to his earlier proposal on the veto power elimination: the Security Council, liberated from veto, should impose mandatory sanctions upon states violators of international peace, security and human rights, to be implemented by the entire world, and to be robustly enforced by them. Again, this argument strikes us as a very logical and clear proposal, albeit implementing it in reality –...

...criminal charges in what way might these donations be considered a breach of directors’ duties? Likewise, consider potential prosecution for breaches of sanctions on Myanmar. At the time of the February 2021 coup, Australia, Canada, the European Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom all had pre-existing sanctions related to the 2017 atrocities against the Rohingya. While these sanctions clearly didn’t prevent the coup, policing and prosecuting sanction breaches can give sanctions proper ‘teeth’. Such breaches are strict liability offences the US and Australia. What entities might be further...