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A report released today by the Ved Nanda Center for International and Comparative Law found that the government of Bahrain is continuing to prosecute civil society leaders in violation of international law and the recommendations of a government-appointed human rights commission.
State practice suggests that IHL allows for limited reprisal attacks against civilians during armed conflict. This is true despite contrary pronouncements in the first Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions and the ICRC's study of customary international law.
Colonel Theoneste Bagosora, the Rwandan military official who made the decision to commit genocide against the Tutsis, recently had his life sentence reduced to 35 years. Bagosora's story is illustrative of the flawed sentencing scheme at international criminal tribunals.
The World Bank's new "Program for Results" (P4R) is meant to promote economic development and alleviate poverty. With its reliance on implementation at a national level, however, its actual effect on individuals, especially indigenous peoples, remains uncertain.
09 February 2012
On February 1, 2012, Russian President signed into law a ban on bribing foreign officials. Russia has now joined the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions (“the Anti-Bribery Convention”) of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The OECD created the Anti-Bribery Convention in 1997, which is comprised [...]
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08 February 2012
By Laura Wood On Friday, the hacking group Anonymous posted on YouTube a recording of a confidential conversation between the FBI and London’s Metropolitan Police. Anonymous also released a copy of an email sent to the invited participant of the conference call. The email, sent January 13, contained a single code to be used by [...]
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07 February 2012
In Madrid, the trial of famed Spanish Investigative will continue this week as the Spanish Supreme Court denied Garzón’s request to drop the charges against him. Garzón first rose to prominence in Spain and amongst human rights groups worldwide for his investigations of human rights crimes, most notably his role in the 1998 indictment of [...]
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06 February 2012
A report released today by the Ved Nanda Center for International and Comparative Law found that the government of Bahrain is continuing to prosecute civil society leaders in violation of international law and the recommendations of a government-appointed human rights commission. The trial of human rights attorney, Mohammad al-Tajer, is scheduled for February 7th while [...]
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03 February 2012
Last week, U.S. Navy seals rescued Poul Hagen Thisted and Jessica Buchanan, after being held hostage in Somalia for three months. Jon Huggins, director of the Oceans Beyond Piracy Project at One Earth Future, questioned why the US, thousands of miles away, was left to conduct this rescue. In short, the US has the means [...]
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26 January 2012
On January 20, 2012, the German President Christian Wulff remembered the 70th anniversary of the “Wannsee Conference,” in which historians believe Nazi leaders coordinated plans to exterminate European Jews and thus established the official German policy of genocide. The President reminded the German people not to forget the “unbelievable and unimaginable” history that Germany could [...]
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25 January 2012
By: Kaitlin Fox The European Union (EU) and the United States took further action on Monday to curb Iran’s nuclear program. The EU agreed to impose a phased ban on oil purchases from Iran while the United States expanded its sanctions on Iran to include the countries’ third largest bank, Bank Tajarat. Iranian Government Officials [...]
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24 January 2012
On Monday, Syria rejected the Arab League’s plan to end violence within the country. Violence between protestors and opposition forces demanding an end to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has been ongoing in Syria since March 2011, resulting in over 5,400 deaths during the ten-month time-span. On Sunday, the Arab League voted to extend the observers mission [...]
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23 January 2012
By: Sara Tracy-Ruazol On January 13, the Italian Cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground when it hit a reef off the western coast of Italy, near the island of Giglio. The collision left a 300-foot-long gash in the ship’s hull, causing the ship to list and eventually partially sink into the sea. As of this [...]
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19 January 2012
Since the September 11th attacks, the United States and its Allies have struggled in dealing with suspected terrorists found both on the battlefield and as civilians in their respective countries; a topic that has remained prevalent in the news and in political discourse over the last decade. The United Kingdom experienced similar problems. One solution [...]
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