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13 Aug Emerging Voices: Momentum Builds for Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence
...it is conducted? Or is it to hold companies accountable for human rights abuses? This is where opinions diverge. Unsurprisingly, businesses want assurances that being more transparent about their human rights risks won’t increase the risk of litigation. Conversely, civil society is concerned that mHRDD legislation should have some “teeth”, and include meaningful sanctions for non-compliance and/or provide a remedy for victims. Navigating these competing demands represents a challenge for legislators. France and the Netherlands have adopted different approaches. Under the French law, a company may be ordered to remedy...
04 Feb A Reminder of the Importance of the Crime of Aggression: Considering the Situation of Russia and Ukraine
...exception. While there are informal ways to try to “enforce” international law, for example, through economic sanctions, a cursory glance at the situation of Crimea, a victim of earlier Russian annexation, reveals that sanctions are not always capable of changing state behavior. While the crime of aggression (i.e., “crimes against peace”) were prosecuted already in 1945-46 before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, the crime was added late to the International Criminal Court’s Rome Statute, in negotiations held after the Court was already operational and able to prosecute its other...
09 Sep Contemporary International Criminal Law After Critique Symposium: Accountability for the Unaccountable? Article 15 Communications Beyond the ICC
...their view of complicity to include the active support, tacit support, and deliberate silences and inaction of other states and political leaders. By engaging in this form of advocacy, the authors of communications might be able to leverage the stigma of international criminal law to influence public opinion and generate sanctions against illegitimate conduct. Extralegal sanctions can include protests, boycotts, and the reputational damage that arises from being named as a person who has allegedly committed an international crime. For politicians, who rely on public support for re-election, the consequences...
04 Apr Equality and Non-Discrimination in International Arbitration: Recent Developments in the English Context
...appoint a more diverse tribunal? Such sanctions might risk gamesmanship by creative litigators, proving ammunition to challenge appointments or awards based on any deficits in the constitution of the tribunal. But in the absence of sanctions, what would be the point of adding an anti-discrimination provision? Finally, one may query whether this is an obligation which should solely be imposed on parties. What about the role, for instance, of appointing institutions or party-appointed arbitrators jointly selecting a chair? Conclusion While initiatives to increase diversity in arbitration should be welcomed, there...02 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Monday, April 2, 2012
...on Human Rights has accepted jurisdiction in the case brought against the United States by an Algerian man who has been detained at Guantanamo Bay without charges or trial for more than a decade. West African leaders have delivered an ultimatum to the military coup leaders in Mali asking them to leave power by Monday or face economic sanctions At the conference on Syria in Istanbul, the 83 members Friends of the Syrian People group has recognized the Syrian National Council as the legitimate representative of the Syrian opposition. The...10 Jun Dear Secretary Tillerson (and the World Media): Qatar is NOT Under a “Blockade”
...are simply preventing anyone in their territories from traveling to or trading with Qatar. A blockade would mean that the Gulf nations actually used military force to interdict all shipping and flights into Qatar by any nation and through international waters. Israel has essentially established such a blockade of the Gaza Strip, but that has not happened to Qatar (yet). Until that happens, there is no blockade. Why is it so shocking that Secretary Tillerson did not recognize this legal distinction? Because the U.S. frequently engages in economic sanctions of...12 Apr An Unusual Setback for the New Jersey Nets
...they vetted this deal.” He said the project received tax-exempt bonds. “It’s being financed partly by the taxpayer, and the public has a right to know,” he said. Prokhorov’s Renaissance Capital investment bank has interests in the Zimbabwean stock exchange, banks, a cellphone company, mining and a swanky, private big-game reserve. The company is intertwined with Onexim, the $25 billion Prokhorov-controlled investment fund behind the deal to bring the struggling NBA team to Brooklyn. Pascrell said he will ask the Treasury Department, which oversees the sanctions, to investigate Onexim. In...07 Jul Weekly News Wrap: Tuesday, July 7, 2015
...month of Ramadan on July 17, to allow for deliveries of humanitarian aid. Iran and world powers made progress on future sanctions relief for Iran in marathon nuclear talks on Saturday, but remained divided on issues such as lifting United Nations sanctions and the development of advanced centrifuges. Asia The Philippines will start on Tuesday its legal battle against China’s territorial claims before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. The Philippine navy recently found a large steel marker bearing Chinese inscriptions and hundreds of yellow buoys in waters...