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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...

10 Dec Weekday News Wrap: Monday, December 10, 2012

Today is International Human Rights Day; 64 years ago, the UN Declaration of Human Rights was signed. The Empire State Building in New York will be illuminated in blue today to honor the work of Human Rights Watch. Also today, and with the end of the year fast approaching, Amnesty International has released its year in human rights for 2012. The 18th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change concluded in Doha, Qatar, with an agreement to extend the Kyoto Protocol until 2020, and on...

12 Dec 2012 ASIL Annual Meeting: Confronting Complexity

...otherwise hear. Among others, we hope to bring in people from other fields – science, technology, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, etc. – who might broaden our understandings of what’s possible. We are already working on some exciting speakers for the Annual Meeting (stay tuned), and if successful, we hope this will become an ongoing ASIL feature. We welcome your thoughts on good candidates. The Annual Meeting will be held March 28-31, 2012 at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, DC. Registration is here. We hope you’re getting excited for it. We certainly are!...

23 Mar LJIL Symposium: The Debate Continues at ASIL on March 30, 2012!

We hope you enjoyed this first Opinio Juris/LJIL Online Symposium. For those who want to prolong these debates in real life, while waiting for the next online symposium, the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL) will celebrate its 25th anniversary on 30 March 2012 during the American Society of International Law’s Annual Meeting. The journal will host a casual roundtable discussion featuring two articles in its latest and forthcoming issues, followed by Q&A and a cocktail reception. Here’s the programme: Introduction by LJIL editors-in-chief, Leiden Law Professor Larissa van den...

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....

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...

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....

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...

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 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...