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The leading international NGO working to secure rights for ethnic, religious minorities, Minority Rights Group International, published a new report (and the Press Release) on the African Court on Human and Peoples’ rights which has yet to hear a case ten years after the African Unity’s summit signed the Protocol in Burkina Faso founding it [...]
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More than 35 years after the publishing of Christopher Stone’s epic essay (at least for environmental lawyers) Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects (45 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1972) it looks as if Stone’s pleadings have been heard. At least in Ecuador, which yesterday approved the country’s 20th constitution. The approved [...]
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This week’s “Clip of the Week” is the speech from the current chief prosecutor at the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Serge Brammertz, held at a conference entitled “2nd Annual International Humanitarian Law Dialogs” on 25-26 August 2008. The conference was co-sponsored by the Robert H. Jackson Center. The event saw the gathering of nine prosecutors [...]
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