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In another worrying judgment generated by the Israeli HCJ, the Court upholds that the occupying power can restrict the basic human right to leave one’s country and the freedom of movement (Article 12 of the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, inter alia) of the occupied population by obliging persons seeking to leave their [...]
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Jess Bravin of the Wall Street Journal has a brief but very interesting and useful guide to what the US Supreme Court may look like following November’s presidential election. Interestingly, it is called into question whether it is a good idea to have a former constitutional scholar (Obama) to appoint justices to the Court.
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On Friday 3 October, the European Commission published a proposal on the extension and the improvement of the EU law framework on maternity leave (COM(2008) 600/4). The proposal forms part of a package of measures aimed at helping women to align their work with their family life. More specifically, according to Social Affairs Commissioner Vladimir [...]
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Although the current world-wide financial crisis is indeed a bad one, it could just be that it might lead to a few good outcomes. One such outcome could be, according to Tony Barber of the Financial Times’ Brussels Blog, further European integration. It certainly appears that the dismal economic situation in Iceland has lead to [...]
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The Court’s judgment in the case of HCJ 1355/08 Shorfa v Defense Minister (judgment of 28 September 2008) concerning a petition against the Defense Minister’s decision under Regulation 84(2)(b) of the Defense Regulations (State of Emergency) 1945, to issue a confiscation order against a container full of clothes and backpacks that was delivered to a [...]
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International Law Observer is proud to announce a new feature of the blog: the Conference Register. This register makes every effort to provide the readers with a coverage of the most important conferences and events on law and law-related issues worldwide. It is arranged in chronological order and contains reference to the original website (if [...]
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The Independent reports that the UK government has undertaken to pursue an investigation into physical and mental abuse of asylum-seekers in detention and upon removal by the staff of private security firms to which these functions have been outsourced. The piercing report – ‘Outsourcing Abuse: The use and misuse of state-sanctioned force during the detention [...]
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International Law Observer keeps expanding: this time we would like to welcome Innocent Mawire from Zimbabwe to our team. As you might have noticed, Innocent has already made his first contributions to the blog in the posts on Africa’s evolving Human Rights Architecture and Human Rights Protection on the African Continent: An Elusive Target or [...]
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This is a summary of a report produced by: Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT) after a two day seminar held from 28-29 June 2007 at Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town. The paper discusses the effectiveness of Africa’s human rights institutions. It specifically refers to an advisory group meeting held in South [...]
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The Council of Europe’s Committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (CPT) has published a new report on the United Kingdom yesterday where it details its conclusions on the situation it had witnessed during its visit in the country in December 2007, when it examined the safeguards afforded to [...]
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José Luis Jesus of Cape Verde has been elected as the new President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, replacing previous President, Rüdiger Wolfrum of Germany. President Jesus will serve a three-year term until 2011. President Jesus is no stranger to the Tribunal as he has served on the judicial organ [...]
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The Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law (HIIL) organizes a two-day conference on ‘The changing role of the highest courts in an internationalizing world’. The conference will take place on 23 and 24 October 2008 in the Peace Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands. The programme and additional information can be found on the [...]
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Climate change is obviously high up on the international agenda at the moment. Attention is firmly focussed on inter-governmental negotiations towards an agreement to replaced the climate change regime under the existing Kyoto Protocol which will expire in 2012. In this regard, two academic conferences on the international law of climate change will take place [...]
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The end of the colonial rule in the 1960s gave the people of Africa renewed hope for a better life. The formation of the inter-state Organization of African Unity (OAU), with the objective of improving the lot of the people of Africa, added momentum to this renewed hope. At last African leaders were coming together [...]
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