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21 Mar

...every participating nation features at least one female athlete. The US exempted 10 EU countries and Japan from sanctions as they have significantly cut crude oil purchases from Iran, but this move leaves China and India exposed. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a statement here. Israel has asked to clear out its embassy in Cairo, highlighting growing tensions since the ousting of Hosni Mubarak last year. Jurist covers the ACLU’s petition filed yesterday with the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights on behalf of Afghan and Iraqi citizens who were...
21.03.12 | |

15 Dec

...the international rule of law, sanctions against the International Criminal Court and UN individuals, combined with the resources crisis facing multilateral institutions, are very concerning. The resource crisis makes child-specific expertise incredibly precarious. An OHCHR representative explained that investigative bodies are operating at a maximum of 60% of their mandated capacity. Within this scarcity, specialized roles related to child rights are often the first to disappear. Child rights expertise remains vested in individual positions rather than embedded in institutional practice – when experts leave, their knowledge disappears with them. Participants...
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17 Jun

...to, lawful sanctions), whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on that individual for such purposes as obtaining from that individual or a third person information or a confession, punishing that individual for an act that individual or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, intimidating or coercing that individual or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind; and (2) mental pain or suffering refers to prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from— (A) the intentional infliction or threatened...
17.06.24 | |

07 Feb

...or slogan or playing an anthem or voicing a slogan, or any similar explicit action clearly expressing such […] sympathy’, to ten year imprisonment. Every person who throws an object, ‘in a manner that […] may harm traffic in a transportation lane’ or ‘at a […] property, with the intent to damage the property’, therefore without necessity for the damage to effectively result from the action, is liable to ten years imprisonment. Moreover, the Order sanctions members of a group in which one or more of its members have committed...
07.02.20 | |

26 May

...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...
26.05.25 | |

21 Nov

...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....
21.11.05 | |

10 Feb

...and the tribunal operates outside of national laws – the judges in each case define the applicable norms and procedures. Decisions by the tribunal are not appealable, and a country faces economic sanctions if it does not comply with its rulings. So after a petition to appear before ICSID filed by 300 organizations in 43 different countries was denied, activists took to the streets. Thousands sent e-mails to corporate executives. Protesters in San Francisco blocked the entrance of Bechtel’s corporate headquarters, and San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a resolution...
10.02.06 | |

02 Apr

...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....
02.04.13 | |

21 Sep

...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...
21.09.15 | |

16 Jan

...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...
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17 Oct

...the existence of a grey zone is well-known. In practice the divide may not always be clearly visible. Yet, large parts of the debate have been devoted to the establishment of one or more criteria to decide what makes an instrument law (be it sanctions, formalities, intent, effect, substance, or belief). Thus, depending on how one distinguishes between law and non-law, informal law output may or may not be part of international law. If formalities or intent matter, a lot of the informal output would not be law. If, in...
17.10.12 | |

07 Jun

...and Commonwealth Office. He warned that a UNGA-created non-consensual hybrid tribunal on Syria could backfire against the US, and raised two problems with the polling questions of a recent study of Pakistani attitudes towards drone strikes. Kristen updated us on the new briefs filed in the Haiti Cholera case, and on the launch of a high level sanctions review at the UN, while Chris discussed the many hurdles in the path of the Eurasian Economic Union. As always, Jessica wrapped up the news (1, 2) and we listed events and...
07.06.14 | |