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19 Dec Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, December 19, 2012

...Security Council approved a resolution extending the terms of 21 judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The US State Department has released the report (.pdf) of an internal examination into what went wrong during the September 11, 2012 attacks on the US Consulate in Benghazi. Six health workers administering polio vaccines in Pakistan have been killed this week by the Taliban. A US Court has issued an injunction ordering Sea Shepherd to stay at least 450m away from the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean....

09 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Monday, April 9, 2012

Guatemala became the 121st state to join the Rome Statute system of the International Criminal Court last week. The statute will enter into force on July 1st, 2012. In other ICC news, Libya’s justice minister has stated the country will not hand over Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to the Court, as it would rather try him in Libya. The UN-brokered Syrian ceasefire agreement is reportedly close to collapse. Foreign Policy offers a context piece about how they Syrian uprising is a sign of bigger battles to come in the proxy war...

20 Jul Weekday News Wrap: Friday, July 20, 2012

...in the Hariri case before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Afghanistan and Pakistan have plans to resume talks on Afghanistan’s peace process. China has condemned Russia for firing on and detaining dozens of Chinese fisherman who had entered Russia’s exclusive economic zone. As we’ve posted on before, the ICC will open an investigation into the violence since January 2012 in Mali. Mark Kersten at Justice in Conflict offers some preliminary analysis as does Professor Schabas at his blog, PhD Studies in Human Rights. Charles Taylor has appealed his conviction and...

09 Nov Weekday News Wrap: Friday, November 9, 2012

The International Court of Justice will deliver its judgment in Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia) on Monday, November 19, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. (Hague time). The European Court of Human Rights upheld the German judgment that placed a ban on the use of holocaust images in a PETA animal-rights campaign poster. Human Rights Watch published a report on migrant women living in Belgium who fear deportation if they report domestic abuse. Despite warnings from the US and Israel, the Palestinian Authority has circulated a draft of a UN...

19 Jul Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, July 19, 2012

...arrested this morning in Hungary. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed a lawsuit against the US Government regarding the deaths of Anwar al-Awlaki, Samir Khan and Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, three American citizens killed in Yemen drone strikes last fall. As Kevin Jon Heller has pointed out and analyzed on Opinio Juris, Mali has asked the ICC to investigate atrocities that have been going on there since January 2012. China has strengthened its ties to Africa by promising $20 billion in loans over the next...

25 May Weekday News Wrap: Friday, May 25, 2012

...government in Papua New Guinea to respect the rule of law and judicial independence after the Chief Justice was charged with sedition in a dispute over who is the rightful Prime Minister. Jurist has more context here. The new French President, Francois Hollande, made an unannounced visit to the French troops in Afghanistan. The Ukrainian President has downplayed threats by Western leaders not to attend the Euro 2012 matches in Ukraine over the treatment of jailed opposition leader Tymoshenko. Thirty have died in a border clash between Mali and Burkina...

28 Dec Weekday News Wrap: Friday, December 28, 2012

...vessel to the South China Sea, to the objections of the Philippines. Unsurprisingly, the NRA has vowed to continue fighting the Arms Trade Treaty. Israel has approved yet another 1,200 settlements around Jerusalem, bringing the total to 5,500 new settlements in the past week. The chief of Pakistan’s Taliban has said that the group will negotiate but not disarm. Foreign Policy offers a nice look back at the year with their most popular stories of 2012 and turning to 2013, they feature 10 conflicts to watch in the coming year....

23 May Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, May 23, 2012

...to decide if prisoners retain the right to vote. More context can be found at EJIL Talk. Human Rights Watch reports that Saudi Arabia is the only participating country of the 2012 Olympics that has not yet affirmed whether women will be allowed to participate in the games. Egypt is electing a new President today. As was the case a few years ago, there is once again a diplomatic dimension to the Eurovision Song Contest with Iran recalling its ambassador from Azerbaijan over claims that the organizers of the contest...

08 May Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, May 8, 2012

...in 13 years, refusing to renew the visa for an Al Jazeera correspondent. A Colombian drug lord, Jose Antonio Calle, has surrendered to US agents in Aruba on charges of distributing 25 tons of cocaine. Colombian rebel group FARC has confirmed it is holding a French journalist hostage. The informal “coalition of ambition” talks on climate change in Brussels reveal the division between EU Member States on how to divide contributions to the Green Climate Fund, established at the UNFCCC COP in Durban last December, after 2012. In a speech...

09 Jul Weekday News Wrap: Monday, July 9, 2012

Survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre re-enacted their escape in Bosnia this weekend ahead of Ratko Mladic’s trial, which resumed today at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Tomorrow, the International Criminal Court will deliver the sentence and reparations order for Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, convicted March 14, 2012 of conscripting and enlisting child soldiers and using them to participate in hostilities. Reuters offers an analysis showing that the crisis in Syria reflects the limitations of Turkish power. Additionally in Syria news, amid President Al-Assad leveling...

05 Jan Holiday Roundup: December 22, 2012 – January 4, 2013

...suggestion that Palestine could limit an ICC referral to the situation in the West Bank, Kevin advanced legal and political arguments against the notion that a self-referral could be geographically limited. Further on the ICC, Jelia Sane contributed a guest post reflecting on the Court’s first acquittal. The end of 2012 inspired Chris to look towards future areas of (international) law in 2013 and beyond, focusing in particular on the need for regulation to deal with the impact of technological change, such as flying cars and 3D printing. Ken has...