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24 Aug 2007, 9:21 am
[JURIST] International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte [official profile] will serve as Switzerland's ambassador to Argentina [press release] when her term as ICTY prosecutor expires at the end of the year, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said Thursday. [read post]
24 Aug 2007, 7:22 am
In the 27 countries of the European Union and in Switzerland, where I live, capital punishment is rightly banned as cruel and inhumane, an offense against human dignity and an ineffective deterrent to violent crime. [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 2:50 pm
Switzerland (note the translation links for French and German at the top of the page)20. [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 2:32 pm
[JURIST] The Swiss Federal Tribunal [official website], Switzerland's supreme court, ruled Thursday that Swiss authorities cannot hand over to Russia financial documents linked to Russian oil giant Yukos [corporate website; JURIST news archive], finding that the Russian prosecution of former Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky [defense website; JURIST news archive] and his business partner Platon [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 5:54 am
In a league of 22 European countries between 2000-02, England comes out 7th bottom, Northern Ireland 5th bottom and Scotland 3rd bottom in terms of the number of patients alive 5 years after diagnosis - much closer to the slightly inferior performance of countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic than the best performing countries such as Sweden, Finland and Switzerland. [read post]
21 Aug 2007, 12:58 pm
Augusto Pinochet, former Indonesian president, decided not to visit Switzerland due to concerns over prosecution, so prosecution can have a deterrent effect in some situations. [read post]
20 Aug 2007, 9:51 am
Switzerland, Sweden and Finland benefit from clusters of world-class companies in high-tech sectors and a highly educated workforce. [read post]
18 Aug 2007, 10:40 am
.- In Switzerland every citizen is required by law to have access to a bomb shelter.- In Burma it is illegal to get internet access. [read post]
14 Aug 2007, 7:07 am
Financial Events International is sponsoring a program entitled Mastering Trusts Blending the key factors of success for an efficient trust in Zurich, Switzerland on October 9-10, 2007. [read post]
11 Aug 2007, 12:15 am
Even if we assume that the Lanham Act takes priority over the U.S. ratification of the treaty, the prior use could void the mark under the Lanham Act (although perhaps it's too late for the ARC to make this argument).The ARC could even argue that the red cross is not trademarkable because it is very nearly the flag of Switzerland. [read post]
9 Aug 2007, 2:04 pm
like J&J may have done just that: 1863: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is founded in Geneva, Switzerland, as a private humanitarian institution. 1887: The year J&J claim to have first used the mark in commerce in the USA. 1895: The ARC & JJ sign the deal that is the basis of the J&J suit today. 1900: ARC chartered by Congress for non-commercial purposes. 1906: J&J gets a federal registratrion for the red cross mark, citing… [read post]
9 Aug 2007, 5:05 am
Each of the other top-rated countries share high scores on labour capability, although three (Denmark, Switzerland and the UK) suffer from labour supply problems and two (Denmark and Switzerland) from high wage costs The web page informs also that this ranking is not followed by direct foreign investement. [read post]
7 Aug 2007, 8:49 am
Is the asset management arm of Switzerland’s Julius Baer headed to market? [read post]
30 Jul 2007, 4:59 pm
After all, it's hard to see, say, Switzerland extraditing to the US for something that wouldn't even be a criminal case in Geneva or Lucerne, never mind one commanding a century in jail. [read post]
30 Jul 2007, 1:59 pm
Switzerland, Sweden and Finland benefit from clusters of world-class companies in high-tech sectors and a highly educated workforce. [read post]
29 Jul 2007, 8:34 am
This time the reporter was Valéria Guimarães de Lima e Silva, who is pursuing a Masters in International Law and Economics at the World Trade Institute in Bern, Switzerland (she also holds a PhD in International Law from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil). [read post]
28 Jul 2007, 1:11 am
Abolitionist for all crimesCountries whose laws do not provide for the death penalty for any crime(View this information in table format)ALBANIA, ANDORRA, ANGOLA, ARMENIA, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA, AZERBAIJAN, BELGIUM, BHUTAN, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA, BULGARIA, CAMBODIA, CANADA, CAPE VERDE, COLOMBIA, COSTA RICA, COTE D'IVOIRE, CROATIA, CYPRUS, CZECH REPUBLIC, DENMARK, DJIBOUTI, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, ESTONIA, FINLAND, FRANCE, GEORGIA, GERMANY, GREECE, GUINEA-BISSAU, HAITI, HONDURAS, HUNGARY,… [read post]
27 Jul 2007, 2:55 am
Historically, almost all countries imitated before they invented-including the US, Germany (product patents in pharma only in 1967), Switzerland (product patents in pharma only in 1977), Japan ('87) etc.TRIPS and other international IP instruments are to be strategically used by countries and standards of protection calibrated according to thier local needs. [read post]
26 Jul 2007, 11:00 pm
... 1929, delegates concluded a 7-month diplomatic conference in Geneva, Switzerland, by adopting the Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field, a revision of 1864 and 1906 treaties on the same subject, and the Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, which operated to "complet[e]" the effort begun in the Hague Regulations of 1899 and 1907. [read post]
20 Jul 2007, 5:05 pm
Other charter members of the alliance -- now with 26 states parties -- were Great Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, Portugal, Iceland, and Canada.... 1954, negotiators in Geneva, Switzerland, concluded a ceasefire agreement in the Indo-China War. [read post]
