Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa The Liberian government has closed most of the West African nation's border crossings and introduced stringent health measures to curb the spread of the deadly Ebola virus that has killed at least 660 people across the region. Nigerian Boko Haram militants kidnapped the wife of Cameroon's vice prime...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Suspected Islamists raided the remote northeast Nigerian town of Damboa over the weekend, shooting dead more than 40 residents and burning down houses in a familiar pattern of killing that has forced tens of thousands to flee their homes this year. South Sudanese rebels and government soldiers clashed...
Announcements A one-day conference on the UN Migrant Workers Convention will be held at the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice on Monday, 28 July. The conference, which boasts a stellar line-up of speakers, will take place in the 12th century monastery of San Nicolò and is free and open to the public. Workshop: Foreign Investment in the Services Sector. A workshop...
Last year's inaugural Emerging Voices symposium was a big success, so today we’re kicking off our second annual edition. Through mid-August, we will be bringing you a wide variety of posts written by graduate students, early-career practitioners and academics. Tune in over the next several weeks if you'd like to read more about litigation of international law in domestic courts, interstate arbitration, statelessness, and rape as a war crime--to...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa In Nigeria, Boko Haram-style violence radiates southwards. Ebola continues to spread in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, with a combined 44 new cases and 21 deaths between July 6 and 8, the World Health Organisation has said. Asia North Korea has fired artillery shells into waters near its sea border with South Korea,...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa West African countries and international health organizations adopted a fresh strategy on Thursday to fight the world's deadliest Ebola epidemic, which has killed hundreds of people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Asia India summoned a senior U.S. diplomat to explain reports that the U.S. National Security Agency was...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa The two main factions in the Central African Republic's conflict have taken a tentative step towards ending violence that has killed thousands and forced more than a million people to flee their homes. Asia India's domestically-produced Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) has blasted off from the southern spaceport of Sriharikota, carrying satellites from...
Events The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals will take place on 18 July 2014 in Geneva. The seminar, the program of which is found here, will focus on the dialogue between the International Law Commission and international courts and tribunals. Members of the ILC, experts and practitioners will take part. The event is open to all. Calls for Papers The Editorial...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Three armed groups from northern Mali have agreed to begin peace talks with the government aimed at resolving long-standing disputes in the country. More than 50,000 children in South Sudan face death from disease and hunger, the United Nations has warned while seeking over $1bn to support those...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa A Liberia-flagged oil tanker has gone missing off the coast of Ghana and a senior port official told Reuters on Saturday the captain sent a distress call to say the vessel was attacked by pirates. Up to 37 people including women and children were killed in Democratic Republic...
Call for Papers The American Society of International Law has extended the deadline for submissions of scholarly paper proposals for the ASIL Research Forum to be held during the Society’s Midyear Meeting in Chicago November 6-8, 2014. Papers can be on any topic related to international and transnational law and should be unpublished. Interdisciplinary projects, empirical studies, and jointly authored papers are welcome. Interested paper-givers...
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa China and the African Development Bank jointly unveiled a US$2 billion multilateral investment fund last week, marking a symbolic shift in their partnership. A bombing in a bar in Nigeria's northeast has killed at least 14 people and injured another 14 in the second attack targeting football fans...
