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Ukraine experienced a violent week of deadly protests in which parliament voted to oust President Viktor Yanukovych.
With the passage of an anti-homosexual law in Uganda the GLBTQ community faces persecution and violence in violation of Uganda's obligation to human rights.
07 March 2014
About a month ago, the International Court of Justice at the Hague (“ICJ”) issued a ruling in a dispute between Peru and Chile that was instigated in 2008. Over 14,000 square miles of ocean in international waters were at stake. The ruling granted Peru control over the majority of the disputed waters, but Chile retained […]
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27 February 2014
After a controversy spanning five years, Ugandan President Museveni signed a bill into law expanding the criminalization of homosexuality in Uganda. GLBTQ individuals could now face up to life imprisonment. Besides an inherent anti-GLBTQ sentiment, the rhetoric surrounding the passage of the bill has been strongly anti-colonial and anti-West. Decried by nations and NGO’s as […]
Posted in Alicia Gauch, DJILP Staff, TVFA Posts0 Comments
25 February 2014
Major upheaval in the Ukrainian government followed fiery and deadly protests in Kiev’s Independence Square last week. Parliament ousted President Viktor Yanukovych and declared a new interim president. Two groups, members of parliament (“MPs”) and hoards of protesters, played an integral part in the changes in Ukraine. Maintaining the tentative peace in Ukraine depends in […]
Posted in DJILP Staff, Katharine York, TVFA Posts0 Comments
21 February 2014
Very little in international intellectual property is more controversial than the internet. Hosted on the internet are millions of pieces of intellectual property – articles, blogs, software, logos, and trade names, just to name a few. Balancing protection for the authors with the aim of widespread information access has proven difficult, to say the least. […]
Posted in DJILP Staff, Samantha Peaslee, TVFA Posts0 Comments
13 February 2014
If you are reading this blog post then you have access to the internet, a network that you are currently sharing with 2.4 billion other people, some of which may not have your best interests at heart. Many people use this network for daily activities, ranging from shopping to social networking. As internet users interact […]
Posted in DJILP Staff, Matthew Aeschbacher, TVFA Posts0 Comments
08 February 2014
In the weeks and months to come, the international community will see the deployment of a number of new privacy initiatives. The new privacy laws are likely to have been spurned by several factors including: the need to update existing laws that are nearly 20 years old; data breaches and government leaks; and the increasing […]
Posted in DJILP Staff, Jordan Edmondson, TVFA Posts0 Comments
30 January 2014
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, Texas executed Edgar Arias Tamayo, a Mexican citizen convicted in 1994 for murdering a police officer. Mexican diplomats were required to be notified of his arrest under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, but the Mexican consular did not receive notification, and Mr. Tamayo was never informed of his rights […]
Posted in DJILP Staff, Lisa Browning, TVFA Posts0 Comments
28 January 2014
How did you ring in the New Year? Did you raise a toast to the 20th anniversary of North American Free Trade Agreement? Probably not, but January 1, 2014, marked the 20th year of NAFTA’s existence. NAFTA is one of the largest trading blocs in the world and thus still remains a relevant point of […]
Posted in Alicia Guber, DJILP Staff, TVFA Posts0 Comments
24 January 2014
A report released just days before the scheduled start of the Geneva II peace conference “is a smoking gun,” for a war crime prosecution of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime according to David Crane, one of the report’s authors. Copies of the report, which allege the systematic killing of detainees in Syrian jails, were sent […]
Posted in Caroline Marfitano, DJILP Staff, TVFA Posts0 Comments
21 January 2014
Over the past month, Australian navy and customs officers have been accused of towing or turning back boats carrying Indonesian asylum-seekers. Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, has reported little about Australia’s asylum-seeker policies, fearing that exposing such information may create a tactical advantage in a wartime scenario. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) […]
Posted in DJILP Staff, Stacy Harper, TVFA Posts0 Comments
