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Financial markets faced uncertainty after both the US and the EU implemented sanctions against Russia for its actions in Crimea.
As the UN discusses the possibility of a new international treaty to protect marine biodiversity, other countries have already started plans for taking action to conserve the ecosystems.
15 April 2014
Introduction The US is ready to impose further sanctions on Russia for its continuing activities in Ukraine, and the markets are once more faced with uncertainty. This announcement is the latest development in US and EU exchanges with Russia over events in Ukraine and suspected Russian involvement. In November 2013, Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych […]
Posted in DJILP Staff, Greg Henning0 Comments
09 April 2014
Part 1: What Does “Privacy” Mean? This is the first post in a three part series examining the issues multinational corporations face in complying with privacy regulations in the U.S. and abroad. This post will explore privacy generally by analyzing privacy as the concept is understood and applied in the European Union, in China, and […]
Posted in DJILP Staff, Greg Henning, TVFA Posts0 Comments
09 April 2014
For four days in the first week of April, the United Nations held meetings to negotiate the possibility of a new international treaty to protect marine biodiversity. The UN working group, High Seas Alliance (HSA), a partnership of 27 non-governmental organizations, plus the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), discussed creating a new […]
Posted in DJILP Staff, Kristen Pariser, TVFA Posts0 Comments
08 April 2014
The Turkish government under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan remains in its worst political crisis since coming to power in 2003. On April 3, access to Twitter in the country was restored after the Constitutional Court ruled that a ban imposed by Erdogan on March 21 was illegal. The prime minister had announced he would […]
Posted in DJILP Staff, Scott Petiya, TVFA Posts0 Comments
07 April 2014
On Monday, April 7, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law will welcome Nigerian human rights attorney Hauwa Ibrahim. Ibrahim has spent her career protecting woman from the harsh penalties meted out under Shariah law in Nigeria’s northern states such as death by stoning and amputations for stealing. Another area of grave concern in Nigeria […]
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04 April 2014
This is the final blog post in a series of three blog posts proposing that the Smart Grid is a possible contributing remedy to fighting global climate change. This post addresses potential obstacles and developments of the Smart Grid within the United States, the European Union, and China and touches on international collaborations amongst those […]
Posted in DJILP Staff, Jaclyn Cook, TVFA Posts0 Comments
02 April 2014
Though the term is defined differently in different countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has come up with a working definition of what constitutes a counterfeit drug in an effort to understand the global implications of counterfeit pharmaceuticals and to facilitate the exchange of information between countries regarding this issue. An estimated 5% of world […]
Posted in Katelynn Merkin, TVFA Posts0 Comments
01 April 2014
Russia’s recent annexation of Ukraine raises an interesting question: What is required for legal territory annexation or secession under international law? It is illegal under international law to annex territory by coercion or force, but the possibility remains that one country can annex the territory of another through “legal” means. Russia’s actions in annexing Crimea […]
Posted in DJILP Staff, Laura Wood, TVFA Posts2 Comments
28 March 2014
It is Sunday the 9th of March. Imagine if today, voting day for Congress in Colombia, Bogotanos could not go to the polls because they live in the Districto Capital (nation´s capital district) and not in a departmento (state); would this violate human rights law? Imagine this same day if afro descendants, indigenous, women or […]
Posted in Todd Howland, TVFA Posts0 Comments
27 March 2014
On March 20, 2014, Turkey blocked its citizens from the social media website, Twitter. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the main culprit for this act. During a campaign rally, he stated “Now there is a court order. Twitter, mwitter, we will eradicate it all.” His purported reason behind the block: privacy concerns. Prime […]
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