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SEMINAR: Terrorism & Security Research in the UK: Using and Understanding Legal Resources Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London This training is designed for PhD candidates & early career academics; researchers in NGOs and government; and those in policy or related positions who use academic research. It will benefit researchers with or [...]
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The third anniversary celebrations since the end of a three-decade war that ravaged Sri Lanka was held on 19 May 2012. The following op-Ed assesses the prospects for Transitional Justice as the nation moves on from a phase of post-war to a phase of post-conflict. The potential and promise, three years after the end of [...]
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Global May Manifesto As hundreds of thousands of people around the world prepared to take to the streets throughout May 2012 as part of a global call for change, the International ‘Global Spring’ Assembly released its first statement describing concrete suggestions for a ‘global change’. 11th May 2012 – Published by Occupy London As hundreds [...]
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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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Today, Friday 18 May 2012, Former US President George W. Bush and seven members of his administration, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo – were found guilty of war crimes following their trial in abstentia by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC) – a non-governmental [...]
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THEME: “Creating the Future We Want” Future begins with the vision we hold now. What kind of future do you wish to create for yourself and the world? Please share your dream and ideas for making it a reality. DEADLINE: Entries must be received by June 30, 2012. PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING LINK FOR SUBMISSION [...]
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Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: What happened to ‘garibi hatao’? India’s Congress Party and the politics of poverty James Chiriyankandath (ICwS) Date: Tuesday 22 May 2012 Venue: Room 265 (Senate House, second floor) Venue addresses: Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DN IALS, 17 Russell Square, London, WC1B [...]
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TITLE OF ESSAY : HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT – A VIEW FROM THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AUTHOR OF ESSAY: SALMA YUSUF BASED ON A PAPER PUBLISHED AT UNITED KINGDOM ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The paper is set within the context of the emerging discourse on environmental security and sustainable development. It [...]
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Greetings to fellow members of the international legal community representing the diverse jurisdictions and legal systems of the world! It is both a pleasure and a privilege to be welcomed to the distinguished Panel of Authors of the Editorial Team at the International Law Observer. Thank you, Dominik Zimmerman, Editor-in-Chief of the International Law Observer, [...]
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The annual Minority Rights Summer Course has been running for over a decade, bringing together human rights law practitioners, researchers and students to review and discuss legal, political and practical issues faced by minority rights law, including the rights of indigenous peoples. This year, the school has invited speakers ranging from established academics in fields relevant to [...]
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Cross-posted from Opinio Juris. —– This is the third post of our Symposium on the Functional Approach to the Law of Occupation. Earlier posts can be found in the Related Links at the end of this post. By far one of the most challenging questions for the international law of belligerent occupation pertains to the termination of [...]
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Dr. Chantal Meloni (researcher in international criminal law at the University of Milan, and an Alexander Von Humboldt scholar at the University of Berlin, who was based in Gaza during 2010 at the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)), and Dr. Gianni Tognoni (Secretary-General to the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, residing in the Lelio Basso Foundation, [...]
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Cross-posted from The Jurist. On April 3, 2012, the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) for the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its decision on the situation in Palestine, stating that is unable to proceed with its preliminary examination at this time. The decision came over three years after Palestine submitted a declaration under Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute of the [...]
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* Prepared on the basis of ICJ Press Release No. 2012/13, 21 March 2012. The public hearings in the case concerning Questions Relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Belgium v. Senegal) currently pending before the International Court of Justice (ICJ or Court) opened on Monday, 12 March, and concluded on Wednesday, 21 March 2012. [...]
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At its 19th session on the 20th of March, the UN’s Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on human rights and the environment facilitating an independent expert on human rights obligations related to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment. The resolution was adopted by consensus, with more than 80 States co-sponsoring. The [...]
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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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On Wednesday 14 March, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea issued its judgment in the Dispute concerning Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary between Bangladesh and Myanmar. The dispute concerned the delimitation of the territorial seas, exclusive economic zones and continental shelves of these two states in the Bay of Bengal. The Judgment [...]
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* Based on an ASIL announcement of 1 March 2012. Call for Scholarly Papers ASIL Research Forum The American Society of International Law calls for submissions of scholarly paper proposals for the ASIL Research Forum to be held at the University of Georgia School of Law on October 20-21, 2012. The Research Forum, a Society [...]
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Cross-posted from EJIL:Talk!. On 26 December 2011, the Israeli High Court of Justice rendered its judgment in the case concerning Israel’s quarrying activities in the occupied Palestinian territory filed by the Israeli human rights organisation Yesh Din, who demanded that Israel terminate its quarrying activities since they violate Israel’s obligation as an Occupying Power to administer the [...]
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a new report, on 5 February 2012, that exposes the ways in which Israel controls immigration and nationality in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) through the population registry, which it established in September 1967. The first census conducted upon its establishment resulted in the exclusion of at least 270,000 individuals. [...]
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ or Court) issued its eagerly-awaited judgment in the case Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy: Greece intervening). This judgment basically holds that Italy has violated its obligation to respect the immunity enjoyed by Germany under international law. Here below follows the Court’s Press Release No. 2012/7 with [...]
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This week, Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich announced that as President, he would support building an American colony on the moon. According to Gingrich, by 2020, “we will have the first permanent base on the moon… a manned colony on the moon which flies the American flag.” Whilst the idea has been ridiculed in some quarters, [...]
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The Cambridge Companion to International Law is edited by James Crawford, University of Cambridge and Martti Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki. The book was launched today at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. It provides a perfect introduction to international law from both traditional and critical perspectives. The companion brings together a group of leading [...]
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This post draws attention to Resolution ICC-ASP/10/Res.2, on cooperation, adopted by consensus on 20 December 2011 by the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court during its 7th plenary meeting (10th Session). There are other important resolutions adopted during the 10th Session, including that dealing with reparations (see previous post); amendments to the rule [...]
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