Posted on May 19, 2012 by salmayusuf
MOSCOW, May 18 – . Russia hopes that the International Criminal Court will assess all of the NATO bombardments in Libya that resulted in civilian casualties, Foreign Ministry Commissioner for Human Rights and Democracy Konstantin Dolgov said on Friday. He added that Russia has closely studied Human Rights Watchs report, “Unacknowledged Deaths: Civilian Casualties in [...]
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Posted on May 19, 2012 by salmayusuf
Ratko Mladic led ethnic cleansing, war crimes trial told BBC’s Mike Wooldridge: “The prosecutor said Ratko Mladic was implementing a plan to exterminate non-Serbs” Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic intended to “ethnically cleanse” Bosnia, the opening day of his war crimes trial has heard. Gen Mladic faces 11 counts of war crimes and [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2012 by Valentina Azarov
Some discussion has taken place with regards to whether human rights treaty bodies along with the Human Rights Council, all part of the United National human rights machinery, apply and develop international humanitarian law in time of armed conflict and occupation, in concurrence with international human rights law (IHRL). Even less, if any, discussion has been [...]
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Posted on January 11, 2012 by Gentian Zyberi
Today is the tenth anniversary of the transfer of the first detainees to the United States naval base in Guantánamo Bay, in Cuba. And with the recent adoption of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) (section 1021) the practice of indefinite detention without charge or trial of terrorism suspects has been legalized in the US; for foreign nationals that is. [...]
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Posted on August 3, 2010 by Dr. Fozia Lone
Solon Solomon, The Justiciability of International Disputes – The Advisory Opinion of Israel’s Security Fence as a Case Study (Jerusalem: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2009) ISBN: 978-90-5850-437-1 By Dr. Fozia Nazir Lone Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong, fnlone@cityu.edu.hk Solon Solomon, in this book presents a comprehensive legal description on the justiciability of international disputes. [...]
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Posted on May 20, 2010 by Gentian Zyberi
New initiatives have been aired recently in high political circles about creating two new courts to deal respectively with piracy off the Horn of Africa (stemming from Somalia), which continues to make headlines, and nuclear security issues. Not long ago, there was a Dutch proposal that the UN should support the establishment of a tribunal [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2010 by Dominik Zimmermann
We have at several occasions here on International Law Observer raised the question of whether or not an international (ad hoc) court (could/) should be established to try pirates (see for example here, here, here and here). On Tuesday (27. April) the UNSC unanimously adopted a resolution in which a next and important step in this [...]
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Posted on April 19, 2010 by Dr. Fozia Lone
Nigel D. White, Democracy Goes to War – British Military Deployments under International Law (Oxford: OUP, 2009) ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921859-2 Nigel D. White, Professor of International Law at the University of Sheffield, in this book presents a clear doctrinal narrative on a very sensitive issue of the use of military force and peacekeeping. The book specifically [...]
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Posted on December 18, 2009 by Gentian Zyberi
Michael Lewis, Eric Jensen, Geoffrey Corn, Victor Hansen, Richard Jackson and James Schoettler , The War on Terror and the Laws of War: A Military Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2009) ISBN13: 978-0-19-538921-0ISBN10: 0-19-538921-2 This book is written by six American legal scholars with experience as members of the legal profession in the US armed forces. [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2009 by Valentina Azarov
Administrative detention has been a contentious topic for international lawyers since its invocation by governments claiming that it is a principal tool in the often-lawless global ‘War on Terror’. Despite the popularity that this mechanism has earned amongst a growing number of states, principally those participating in the ‘War on Terror’, it has been neglected [...]
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Posted on August 26, 2009 by anadolli
On August 20, 2009 the Washington Post reported that the US administration was making progress in resettling detainees from Guantanamo Bay. According to the article, six European Union countries – Britain, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain – have agreed to receive the inmates. Four EU countries have privately told the US administration that they [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2009 by Ole W. Pedersen
If you fancy combining the job of hunting down terrorists with a career on TV then The Wanted, aired on NBC Monday night, might just be something for you. NPR has the story. Maybe some of our American-based readers who happened to watch it can shed some light on the programme. In the programme, the [...]
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Posted on March 30, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
According to a press release of the UN, Antonio Cassese, the former (and first) president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has been elected president of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). Pursuant to Art. 8(2) of the Statute of the STL (annexed to UN Security Council resolution 1757) this makes judge [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2009 by Dominik Zimmermann
Jurist has an interesting article on the need of the Obama Administration to redefine the concept of “enemy combatant”. The article picks up a discussion that has been going on for the last couple of years and which has been characterized by a clash of different schools of dealing with international terrorism from the perspective [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2009 by franzebert
After a battle of several year the Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (“PMOI”) has succeeded in getting its name off the EU’s black list of terrorist organisations. As EUobserver reported on Tuesday, the EU Foreign Ministers agreed to remove the name of the organization from the list due to a lack of evidence [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2009 by Ole W. Pedersen
The news is just out that President Obama has signed an executive order facilitating the closure of the US detention centre in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. A draft version of the Order is available here and news links here and here. Section 3 of the Order reads: Closure of Detention Facilities at Guantánamo. The detention facilities [...]
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Posted on January 8, 2009 by Ole W. Pedersen
Professor Philippe Sands of UCL gives an interesting interview on NPR’s Fresh Air on the chances of officials from the Bush administration facing “international” investigations given their alleged role in the use of torture in, for instance, the Abu Graibh prison in Iraq. Sands argues that new evidence has recently emerged showing that the abuse which [...]
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Posted on January 6, 2009 by Ole W. Pedersen
Well, if you were at Gitmo, certainly not the US. As more evidence emerges of the horrific abuses committed as part of the global “war on terror”, this seems to be the approach taken by the US government according to this article by Jane Perlez, Raymond Bonne and Salman Masood in today’s NY Times, describing [...]
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Posted on September 11, 2007 by Dominik Zimmermann
Today it is six years ago, terrorists attacked the free world by flying commercial airliners into the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Much has happened since and due to these attacks; not at least from an international law perspective: the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, the trial of Saddam Hussein, “Guantanamo” [...]
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Posted on August 3, 2007 by Dominik Zimmermann
On Wednesday, the Financial Times published an interesting article by Professor Jack L. Goldsmith on the seeming convergence between Europeans’ and Americans’ approach to fight terrorism. Another sign which might point in this very direction is the recent agreement reached between the European Union and the United States on the sharing of passenger flight data. According to [...]
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