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14 Dec 2009, 12:38 pm by Emmanuel Barthe
Sylvain Mulard — et votre serviteur — ont remarqué que le JORF du 13 décembre 2009 avait publié deux décrets intéressant les professions juridiques et, surtout, contenant un "rapport de présentation" qui explicite le nouveau dispositif (Publics concernés, Objet, Entrée en vigueur, Notice, Références). [read post]
22 Jun 2006, 6:08 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak [official website] told an Austrian radio station Thursday that European countries could help bring about the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center [JURIST news archive] by accepting some detainees into their judicial and penitentiary systems. [read post]
29 Dec 2016, 11:37 am by William Theisen
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un ordered the executions of 340 people in the five years that he has been in power, according to a report [materials in Korean] from the Institute for National Security Strategy [website in Korean], a South Korean think tank. [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 11:47 am by Brandon Gatto
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez [official website] last week formally accused [text, PDF] the US government of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment towards Pfc. [read post]
4 Aug 2006, 7:43 am
[JURIST] UN agencies working in Gaza joined Friday to urge respect for international humanitarian law and the obligation to protect civilians, reminding the international community in a joint statement [text, PDF] not to forget the violence there while attention to the ongoing Middle East conflict [JURIST news archive] is focused on Lebanon. [read post]
12 Mar 2004, 4:54 am
The UN Security Council Friday passed a US-sponsored resolution freezing the assets of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, now living in exile in Nigeria. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 5:43 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] said in a briefing paper [text] for the European Union (EU) released Thursday that the United Nations had "tarnished its reputation and undermined its legitimacy" by failing to hold individuals in the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the NATO Kosovo Force (KFOR) accountable for human rights violations committed by their [read post]
19 Mar 2004, 9:50 am
In international law news Friday, the UN's International Maritime Organization has said that governments are not acting quickly enough to prepare for the implementation of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code, a maritime anti-terror law that will come into force July 1. [read post]
5 Jan 2005, 11:19 am
[JURIST] UN officials have begun working with Indonesian government authorities to set up a child registration system that will help prevent and forestall illegal child trafficking in the wake of last week's South Asia tsunami that is now estimated to have killed 150,000, leaving tens of thousands of children homeless across the region. [read post]
27 Jun 2008, 9:03 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile; JURIST news archive] Thursday sharply criticized [press release] Zimbabwean political groups for violence surrounding the country's ongoing presidential elections and said that mediation efforts should be based on the need for accountability and justice. [read post]
4 Dec 2010, 11:03 am by Emmanuel Barthe
L'Université de Clermont-Ferrand a mis en ligne un des supports du C2i Métiers du droit [1] proposé par l'Université Numérique Juridique Francophone (UNJF) [2] : le module D2-3 "Rechercher et utiliser des ressources d'information et de documentation juridique" (version imprimable compressée au format ZIP) [3], [read post]
23 Dec 2004, 11:07 am
Nader Fergani, the editor of the Arab Human Development Report, said the US had threatened to pull its funding from the UN Development Program over the report, a charge the US and UNDP [read post]
21 Nov 2006, 1:18 pm
[JURIST] Israel's use of force during its 33-day standoff [JURIST news archive] with Hezbollah in Lebanon was "excessive, indiscriminate and disproportionate" in "flagrant violation" of international law, according to a report issued Tuesday by the UN Human Rights Council [official website]. [read post]
21 Apr 2005, 8:06 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Commission [official website] Thursday passed a resolution condemning rights abuses in Sudan. [read post]
19 May 2006, 9:05 am
[JURIST] The White House Friday responded to a report [PDF text; JURIST report] by the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) [official website] calling on the US to shut down its Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detention facility by reinterating President Bush's statement [JURIST report] that he hopes to close it at some point, and insisting that "everything that is done in terms of questioning [read post]
14 Apr 2004, 11:39 pm
In international law news Wednesday, the legal subcommittee of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space has concluded its forty-third session, during which it agreed on a draft General Assembly resolution on the concept of the "launching state. [read post]