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27 Oct Weekly News Wrap: Monday, October 27, 2014
...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,...13 Feb North Korea Agrees to Nuclear Deal
...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....27 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Friday, April 27, 2012
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...16 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Monday, April 16, 2012
...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,...25 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, April 25, 2013
...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...29 Sep Events and Announcements: 29 September 2024
...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...20 Mar The (International) Right to Bear Arms
...(Via Instapundit) Closely examining the Darfur, Sudan, genocide, and making reference to other genocides, this Article argues that the genocide prevention strategies which are currently favored by the United Nations are ineffective. The Article details the failures of targeted sanctions, UN peacekeepers, and other anti-genocide programs. Then, the Article analyzes the Genocide Convention and other sources of international human rights law. Because the very strong language of the Genocide Convention forbids any form of complicity in genocide, and because the Genocide Convention is jus cogens (meaning that it prevails over...15 Jul Hobbling the Monitors: Should U.N. Human Rights Monitors be Accountable? by Philip Alston
...food, health, etc.), represents the Council’s most effective system for independent human rights monitoring. In 2010, in the context of major discussions about the future of the Council, the same group of governments proposed the establishment of a Legal Committee to enforce compliance with the Code through sanctions. Other governments, the SRs themselves, and civil society groups have been highly critical of the way the Code has been used so far to stifle the work of the monitors and are strongly opposed to the creation of any compliance mechanism. In...
31 Oct Third Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: This Sea Belongs to Me, Take Your Boat Elsewhere- Nationalism, Samba and the Law of the Sea
...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...