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27 Feb Security Council Refers the Situation in Libya to the ICC
The referral is part of a larger set of sanctions against Libya. From the UN News Centre: The Security Council today voted unanimously to impose sanctions against the Libyan authorities, slapping the country with an arms embargo and freezing the assets of its leaders, while referring the ongoing violent repression of civilian demonstrators to the International Criminal Court (ICC). In its Resolution 1970, the Council obligated all United Nations Member States to “freeze without delay all funds, other financial assets and economic resources which are on their territories, which are...
01 Dec The 24th Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute: Time to Act
...local legislation that can affirm the immunity and privileges of the Court. In particular for European Union States Parties, their leadership to enact a blocking statute against United States sanctions is overdue. Agenda items related to the report by the Court President, the Registrar, a representative from the Office of the Prosecutor, the International Criminal Court Bar Association, and the Board of the Trust Fund for Victims need to be carefully and actively listened to by States Parties. In each of these reports, each relevant organ or part of the...05 Jan Weekly News Wrap: Monday, January 5, 2015
...to the United Nations Security Council a resolution calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state that failed to win enough votes last week. Violence in Iraq in 2014 killed at least 12,282 civilians, making it the deadliest year since the sectarian bloodshed of 2006-07, the United Nations said in a statement. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called for curbs on the state’s involvement in business and an end to Tehran’s international isolation on Sunday to help rescue an economy hurt by sanctions, corruption and mismanagement. Asia North Korean leader Kim...
30 May ‘Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman’: Legal Implications of Threats Issued by U.S. Republican Senators
[Javier Eskauriatza is an Assistant Professor in criminal law at the University of Nottingham School of Law. He is also the Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Research Centre, and the Convener of the Criminal Law and Criminal Justice stream for the Society of Legal Scholars.] On 24 April 2024, twelve U.S. Senators (Republican Party) sent a letter to Karim Khan, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (‘ICC’), threatening him, other Court officials, and their families, with ‘sanctions’ and other less specific consequences if arrest warrants were to be issued...
19 Aug To Recognize or Not to Recognize – is That Really the Question? On State Recognition Amid Genocide
...obligations States have towards them as a people, and can be a positive step in contributing to the remedying of Israel’s violation of the right to self-determination. Yet with the ongoing genocide, the spectacle of recognition appears to serve not merely as a distraction, but a substitute for existing State obligations, enabling States to pat themselves on the back while the genocide rages on. The obligation to suppress the genocide through all legal means, to prevent war crimes, and to end the occupation, including through sanctions, arms embargos, and expelling...27 Feb Two Mistaken Defenses of Torture
...is incorrect, although the poor drafting of the statute makes it an easy mistake to make. Again, here is the text of the statute: (1) “torture” means an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control; (2) “severe mental pain or suffering” means the prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from— (A) the intentional infliction or threatened...
01 Aug Options for a Peace Settlement for Ukraine: Option Paper XII – A Dynamic Political Settlement: Adapting to the Evolving Post-agreement Context
...in the Ukraine, and their complex interplay, means that any of an infinite number of factors has potential to drastically alter the implementation landscape. One of these factors may be sanctions, in terms of both imposition and relief. It remains to be seen what costs need to be imposed on Russia, and President Putin specifically, to secure meaningful concessions from Russia in peace negotiations, despite the guaranteed loss of face given the unrealistic demands that were issued in the first place. For the implementation phase, questions may arise whether removal...30 Aug Of Fire and Fury: The Threat of Force and the Korean Missile Crisis
...international peace and security and imposed new sanctions on North Korea. On August 8th, the war-of-words between the US and North Korea escalated. Echoing President Truman’s warning that Japan would suffer “a rain of ruin” if it failed to surrender, President Trump warned that North Korea would be met with “fire and fury” if it threatened the US. Seemingly undeterred, North Korea announced that it was preparing plans to attack Guam, in response to which President Trump took to twitter to warn that “military solutions are now fully in place,...14 Dec Wikileaks and the Pentagon Papers
...these two inquiries. Chief Justice Burger, dissenting: I agree generally with Mr. Justice Harlan … but I am not prepared to reach the merits. I should add that I am in general agreement with much of what Mr. Justice White has expressed with respect to penal sanctions concerning communications or retention of document or information relating to the national defense. Justice Blackmun, dissenting: I join Mr. Harlan in his dissent. I also am in substantial accord with much that Mr. Justice White says, by way of admonition, in the latter...