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27 Oct

...oversight to be expanded to more than a dozen other U.N. Security Council sanctions regimes to ensure fair process for the individuals and entities targeted. The chief U.N. investigator into human rights cases in North Korea said on Wednesday he has appealed to China to support calls to refer Pyongyang’s actions to The Hague on suspicion of crimes against humanity. The death toll from the Ebola epidemic has risen to 4,922 out of 10,141 recorded infections, with three West African countries accounting for most of the cases through October 23,...
27.10.14 | |

25 Apr

...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...
25.04.16 | |

31 Oct

...of Brazilians. He may have considered the US position as an insult to Brazil as a whole, and not a matter that concerned solely the military. He probably did not consider the legal background of the 200nm claim, but he certainly thought Brazil was in the right to insist in its claim. Nogueira later stated that he read newspapers during his breaks at work, and he thought it was outrageous that the US was threatening to impose sanctions and stop buying Brazilian coffee if Brazil upheld its 200nm claim. The...
31.10.23 | |

27 Apr

ECOWAS will dispatch troops to both Mali and Guinea-Bissau in order to swiftly reinstate civilian rule after recent coups. In a Reuters exclusive, the US Senate, after a three-year investigation, is expected to find that the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used failed to yield counterterrorism breakthroughs. As a result of ongoing clashes between Sudan and South Sudan, the United States has circulated a draft resolution through the UN Security Council outlining sanctions if the two nations do not cease their strikes and resolve their many disputes. The US will move 9000...
27.04.12 | |

16 Apr

...by Mothers of Srebrenica. The US and the Philippines have started their annual military exercises, involving 7000 troops, close to the disputes South China Sea waters. Australia has decided to lift financial sanctions and travel bans against more than 200 officials in Myanmar. Hearings in the tobacco giants’ High Court case challenging the legality of Australia’s plain packaging legislation will start tomorrow. In a move welcomed by the US and the IMF, China widened the trading band of the Yuan. On the first day of trading in this broader band,...
16.04.12 | |

25 Apr

...Court of Justice against Chile to regain access to the Pacific Coast it lost in a 1904 Treaty concluded after the War of the Pacific of the 1880s. Eric Posner has a column on Kiobel over at Slate. Eager not to be left at a competitive disadvantage after the EU lifted economic sanctions earlier this week, the acting USTR is travelling to Myanmar to discuss a framework agreement on trade and investment. The UK has signed a mutual legal assistance agreement with Jordan, which, according to the Home Secretary, includes...
25.04.13 | |

29 Sep

...to come. Afterwards, a panel of counter-terrorism experts will examine the relevance of transitional justice for counter-terrorism. Register here. Panel Discussion: The T.M.C. Asser Instituut is hosting the free event “Secondary Sanctions and the International Legal Order” at 18:00 CET on 5 November 2024 in The Hague, the Netherlands. Register here. The Law of International Society: A Road Not Taken : The Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki) on: “The Law...
29.09.24 | |

30 Nov

...other measures based on their capacity to influence the events and their legal positioning vis-à-vis the situation concerned. Still, it is hard to see how, in at least certain atrocity situations and despite Article 103 of the UN Charter a member wielding the veto against a Chapter VII resolution that, for example, imposes sanctions prohibiting all UN Members from supplying weapons to a brutal regime that is known to use those weapons to commit genocidal acts against a protected group would be compatible with such positive duties. Admittedly, the present...
30.11.20 | |

10 Sep

...still requires improvements. In particular, there is a need to clarify the obligation of transnational corporations to respect human rights,  the need to strengthen legal mechanisms to implement the treaty and sanctions in case of non-compliance, among others. One of the elements that has been a source of tension in the negotiation of a legally binding instrument is the recognition of the principle of human rights supremacy in the face of international economic agreements (IEAs). This concern was also raised by a group of civil society organisations recognising the need...
10.09.20 | |

23 Oct

...of parties to conflict committing grave violations against children; The establishment of a monitoring and reporting mechanism on the so called six grave violations against children (Recruitment and use of children, rape and other forms of sexual violence, killing and maiming, abductions, attacks on schools and hospitals, denial of humanitarian assistance); The creation of the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict; The endorsement of action plans, UN contracts with parties to conflict to halt and prevent violations and The adoption or mere threat of sanctions against parties...
23.10.20 | |

13 Feb

...day to eventually get rid of their nuclear program. Additionally, the U.S. and North Korea will start on bilateral talks aimed at restarting diplomatic relations and, probably, some sort of peace treaty aimed at ending the Korean War (remember that war?). Does the U.S. Congress get to weigh in? Not on the agreement itself, but since the U.S. has also promised to begin removing North Korea from its designation as a terror-sponsoring state list and also on ending U.S. trade sanctions, Congress will get to have their say, I’m sure....
13.02.07 | |

23 Nov

...symposium. Our first contributor is Ramesh Thakur, Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Professor Thakur’s article, ‘ Law, Legitimacy and United Nations’, identifies a gap between law and legitimacy in the practice of the United Nations and posits that this is a serious challenge to the authority of the organisation. Thakur detects this ‘ legitimacy deficit ’ with respect to a number of areas. He points to the difficulties with international sanctions regimes, the concerns regarding...
23.11.10 | |