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Author: Dan Bodansky

30 Mar

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="420" caption="Bonn Negotiations Get Underway"][/caption] The climate change “negotiations” resumed this week in Bonn.  I put “negotiations” in quotes (or as they say here in England, “inverted commas”) because there has been little negotiating over the past 18 months since the Bali Action Plan was adopted. (The UNFCCC web site characterizes the sessions this week as “talks”.)  Indeed,...

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26 Mar

Last month, the UNEP Governing Council voted to begin negotiation of a treaty on mercury pollution.  The negotiations will start next year and are supposed to conclude in 2013.  Meanwhile, negotiations on the future of the international climate change regime will resume next week in Bonn, aimed at reaching an agreement at the Copenhagen Conference in December. The development of any...

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24 Mar

More than 150,000 civilians under daily bombardment, with an estimated 2800 already dead (including 500 children) and more than 7000 injured.  Water and medicine running short.  The advancing forces rejecting a cease fire.  And the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights raising concern about potential violations of international human rights and humanitarian law...

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24 Mar

Thanks to Peggy for her introduction.  It’s a great pleasure to have the opportunity to guest blog on Opinio Juris, which I think has become essential reading for international lawyers.  Just recently I heard an ICC prosecutor remark how much his office had been influenced by Kevin Heller’s post criticizing the Pre-Trial Chamber’s decision on the genocide charges in the...

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