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17 Apr 2017, 7:14 am
The growing despair amongst victims requires urgent redress.Filed under: Domestic Implementation of International Law, Gender Issues, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, Public International Law, Transitional Justice [read post]
12 Apr 2017, 6:00 am
Case Study Series: Dam Displacement (IDMC, April 2017) [access]- Two new reports in this series are now available: 1) Dams and Internal Displacement: An Introduction; 2) China: Lessons Learned from the Manwan Dam. [read post]
11 Apr 2017, 10:09 am
…” The Trump Administration’s blueprint for FY2018 for 150 international affairs budget functions included no budget proposal for the Peace Corps. [read post]
1 Apr 2017, 2:59 am
I was invited to give a presentation of around 20 – 25 minutes to Amnesty International’s 2017 Chairs Assembly & Directors Forum (CADF) meeting, held for the first time in Colombo, Sri Lanka. [read post]
26 Mar 2017, 7:00 am
Choosing the path of cooperation would demonstrate that China intends to use its burgeoning power to improve international security. [read post]
23 Mar 2017, 10:23 am
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official profile] presented his report on Sri Lanka [press release] to the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday, stating that much work remains to make Sri Lanka's judiciary conform with international expectations. [read post]
21 Mar 2017, 6:30 am
See also related Amnesty International statement. [read post]
20 Mar 2017, 7:26 am
(Pix Coastal exposure of the Point Aconi Seam (Nova Scotia))The Norwegian State continues to project its national environmental policies onto its investment strategies.With effect from February 2016, the Ministry of Finance added a new product-based criterion, under which mining or power companies with 30 per cent or more of their operations associated with thermal coal may be excluded from the GPFG. [read post]
17 Mar 2017, 8:33 am
The internal mechanism: firmware. [read post]
17 Mar 2017, 5:31 am
After travelling through Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka, it will conduct joint naval exercises with the Indian and American navies in the Indian Ocean in July. [read post]
15 Mar 2017, 1:17 pm
Among other claims, they argued that the LTTE is not a terrorist organization because the conflict between the group and the government of Sri Lanka is a non-international armed conflict governed only by IHL, not by EU and international counterterrorism measures. [read post]
15 Mar 2017, 11:33 am
The Aris 13 oil tanker, with a crew of eight Sri Lankans, sent out a distress signal while on its trip from Djibouti to Mogadishu. [read post]
5 Mar 2017, 9:22 am
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena [official website] on Sunday rebuffed [press release, in Sinhala] calls for international judges to participate in the country's war crimes tribunals. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 11:25 am
Geeta was honored with the Joan Bavaria Award (2015) for Building Sustainability into the Capital Markets at the CERES conference and the SRI Service Award (2013), recognizing leadership and innovation in SRI (Sustainable, Responsible, Impact) investing at the SRI Conference. [read post]
17 Feb 2017, 8:00 am
"Australia Increases Pressure, Cash Offers for PNG Asylum Seekers to Return Home," Reuters, 14 Feb. 2017 [text]A Comparison of Coalition and Labor Government Asylum Policies in Australia since 2001 (Parliamentary Library of Australia, updated Feb. 2017) [text]Contextualizing the Reasonableness Test of Internal Relocation in International Refugee Law: Empirical Analysis of Decisions of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal of Australia concerning Afghanistan, Pakistan,… [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 7:51 am
These schemes, however, have no basis in treaty law or in authoritative articulations of customary international law (CIL) and will do little to deter unscrupulous parties willing to use human shields in the first place. [read post]
20 Jan 2017, 9:56 am
The aim of the project, which has been conducted by SRI International for the Bank of America over the course of five years, was to automate bank bookkeeping. [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 8:08 am
Reaffirms the sovereign right of all countries to develop their own legal systems, including determining appropriate legal penalties, in accordance with their international law obligations;”While the number of the votes in favour remained the same as in 2014, there have been some interesting changes in the voting, both positively and negatively:Positive changes:-Guinea, Malawi, Namibia, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka moved from abstention to vote in favour;-Zimbabwe moved from… [read post]
8 Jan 2017, 11:22 am
Christopher Gregory Weeramantry, a distinguished lawyer who served as a judge on the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and later as a judge on the International Court of Justice died on January 5, 2017 at the age of 90. [read post]
7 Jan 2017, 2:48 pm
A Sri Lankan panel of the Consultation Task Force on Reconciliation Mechanisms [official website] has recommended [press release] the appointment of a hybrid court composed of local and international judges to oversee the adjudication of allegations of war crimes committed during the nation's civil war. [read post]
