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28 Sep Weekday News Wrap: Friday, September 28, 2012
According to a Kenyan military spokesman, Kenyan forces have captured the Somali port city of Kismayo, a bastion for Al-Shabbab fighters. At the UN General Assembly, China’s foreign minister accused Japan of stealing the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has said he will seek a vote on an upgraded status for Palestine to non-member state, like The Vatican, from the UN General Assembly. At the UN, Tunisia’s President has called for the creation of an International Constitutional Court with the power to declare domestic laws unconstitutional when they...03 Jan Good Luck with the ICC, Muslim Brotherhood (Updated)
Alexander Common Lawyers. Sigh. Their own fault. Non liquet Regarding your update, I think there is an interesting parallel to the Ivory Coast, though Ouattara ultimately had to reconfirm jurisdiction once he was firmly in power and then the ICC kicked off its investigation there (and Gbagbo already had accepted jurisdiction as well). I had often thought that would be the way to try to get the ICC involved in Syria. . . Rob Most likely the Muslim Brotherhood assesses a filing to the ICC as a good way to...28 Feb Comment on Kiobel and Mohamad
...v. Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization, the Supreme Court will decide whether or not torture victims can sue corporations and other non-governmental entities, for their injuries. The two federal statutes at issue—the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA) and the Alien Tort Statute (ATS)—have been used for more than a decade to hold corporations liable for torture, genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, even when those violations occurred outside of the United States. While Kiobel and Mohamad do not represent the first time that torture victims have sued corporations...14 May Weekday News Wrap: Monday, May 14, 2012
...case information sheet here). He is faced with charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. American drones have allegedly killed 10 militants in Yemen, in a stepped-up effort to get a strangle hold on AQAP. Foreign Policy explores some of the potential dangers in for this move. Through an exchange of letters, Israel and Palestine have made a rare joint statement that both parties are “committed to peace.” Various subgroups of the Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol are meeting in Bonn from...
21 May Transparency, Accountability and Legitimacy—Chatham House Report on Military Drones in Europe, Part I
...To date, there is no clear-cut consensus on how states answer these questions, despite the continued expansion and evolution of drone warfare. Some examples of this expansion include Pakistan, Nigeria, Iraq and Turkey, all of which have conducted drone strikes against targets within their own borders. Israel has done the same in Palestine. Turkey has been accused of violating Iraq’s sovereignty and the US launched a drone strike in Iraq, a country in which it was not in a recognized armed conflict, that killed Qassem Soleimani (Alonso Gurmendi wrote here...22 Sep Weekly News Wrap: Monday, September 22, 2014
...changing its flag, newly re-elected prime minister John Key said on Monday, as the country looks to assert an identity independent of colonial ties to Britain. UN World leaders gather in New York at the UN General Assembly this week to tackle a host of crises: the violence Islamic State militants are wreaking in Iraq and Syria, the exponential spread of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa and deadlocked negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program. The United Nations Relief and Works agency for Palestine Refugees has urged the international community to...14 Mar Can International Law Fight Terrorism?
...infrastructure is far more focused on restraining the use of military force against terrorism by governments. For instance, the much vaunted internationalist hobby horse, the International Criminal Court, is much more likely to prosecute a U.S. soldier for engaging in war crimes in the prosecution of the war on terror than it would prosecute a terrorist for engaging in terrorist acts. Why? Because terrorism itself is not a crime within the ICC’s jurisdiction. Rather, terrorist acts would have to be shoehorned into one of the ICC’s other categories as a...