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07 Aug New Rule: Let’s Not Invade the Amazon
...sanctions or even use of force if it refused to protect the rainforest might be feasible”. While he does not personally recommend this approach, he does conclude that the chances of this happening are “increasing”. The article has generated a lot of conversation within the Latin American international law community, and especially, of course, in Brazil. The ensuing discussion raised concerns not just on the merits of the article itself (why does the question of expansive criteria for the use of force arise only in cases involving developing nations and...18 May Witness Tampering and Obstruction of Justice in International Arbitration
...respect to the subject matter thereof,… as if the subject matter of the arbitration were pending before a superior court of this state in a civil action…. (b) The arbitrator or arbitrators themselves shall have power, in addition to the power of determining the merits of the arbitration, to enforce the rights, remedies, procedures, duties, liabilities, and obligations of discovery by the imposition of the same terms, conditions, consequences, liabilities, sanctions, and penalties as can be or may be imposed in like circumstances in a civil action by a superior...25 Apr Weekly News Wrap: Monday, April 25, 2016
...the isolated state might conduct a nuclear test or a missile launch ahead of a ruling party meeting in May. Police in the Pakistani city of Karachi have arrested an al Qaeda operative who is on the United Nations sanctions list, a police official said on Friday. Indonesia on Friday defended its use of the death penalty for drug traffickers, just days after its representative was jeered at a U.N. narcotics conference, citing a steep rise in demand and consumption in Southeast Asia’s most populous country. Europe Finland’s highest administrative...23 Mar A Dissenting View on Paul Kagame
...African Union, the country had made significant progress toward political pluralism, but parties were still “not able to operate freely” and faced legal sanctions if accused of engaging in divisive acts. The government’s continuing campaign against divisionism discouraged debate or criticism of the government and resulted in brief detentions and the holding of one political prisoner, former minister Ntakarutinka. All political organizations were constitutionally required to join the Forum for Political Organizations, which continued to limit competitive political pluralism, according to the 2006 APRM report. Despite a June 2007 law...
07 Feb ICC and Palestine Symposium: ‘Imprisoning’ Self-Determination–The Israeli Military Law Enforcement System in the West Bank and Its Relevance for the ICC
...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...