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16 Jan Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, January 16, 2013
...Colombia and Fixes a Single Maritime Boundary between Colombia and Nicaragua (.pdf). Senator Ron Wyden, a Democratic member of the Senate Intelligence Committee demanded in a letter (.pdf) to President Obama’s counterterrorism advisor John Brennan that he and other committee members be allowed to review secret Justice Department legal opinions justifying the killing of American citizens in counterterrorism operations. The United States is pushing for more sanctions against North Korea at the UN. China is planning a geographical survey of the contested Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. The...21 Sep Weekly News Wrap: Monday, September 21, 2015
...it has built. A senior U.S. defense official said on Thursday that additional sanctions were a possible response to any North Korea missile launch and the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific said he favored deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system in South Korea. Europe With a troubled peace plan for the Ukrainian conflict nearing its deadline, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will attempt a balancing act to reassure Kiev of the West’s support without antagonizing Moscow when he visits Ukraine on Monday. Bitterly-divided European leaders will seek to find...02 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, April 2, 2013
...weekend. Relatives of approximately 90 Yeminis held at the US Guantanamo Bay prison are protesting their “very poor” conditions at Gitmo and demanding their release. Arms Control Blog points to a new report about the effectiveness of sanctions against Iran. The UNGA is set to vote today on the Arms Trade Treaty, a week after Iran, Syria and North Korea blocked the adoption by consensus. Following the return of the two Italian marines to India, India’s Supreme Court has removed the order barring the Italian envoy from leaving the country....21 Nov Sixty Years Ago Today: Robert Jackson at Nuremberg
...criminals of this order of importance. It does not expect that you can make war impossible. It does expect that your juridical action will put the forces of international law, its precepts, its prohibitions and, most of all, its sanctions, on the side of peace, so that men and women of good will, in all countries, may have “leave to live by no man’s leave, underneath the law.” The full text of the speech is here. More on the Nuremberg Trials is available through Yale Law School’s Avalon Project here....02 Apr The Use of Statutory Construction in Defining Torture
Here is a key excerpt from pages 36-39 of the March 2003 “Torture” Memorandum: Section 2340 defines the act of torture as 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…. The key statutory phrase in the definition of torture is the statement that acts amount to torture if they cause “severe physical or mental pain or suffering.”...
26 May Futureproofing Human Rights Symposium: When the Center Cannot Hold – Grey Zones in “The Age” of Accountability
...contrast, the notion of grey zones refers to settings where the very possibility and relevance of accountability is called into question. This piece therefore understands accountability to refer to criminal sanctions and adjudication mechanisms, as well as to the more normative and foundational idea that actors –especially those in positions of power—must bear consequences for their actions and omissions regarding both negative and positive human rights obligations. Accountability can take place in various forums, not just legal ones, with political arenas also playing a crucial role. This broader understanding foregrounds...