Search for: "interns"
Results 7501 - 7520
of 240,160
Sorted by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
2 Jun 2004, 2:57 am
Amnesty International has released a new report, criticizing the Turkish government and judiciary for their failure to act over violence against women, including deprivation of economic necessities, verbal and psychological violence, beatings, sexual violence and killings. [read post]
11 Feb 2005, 2:02 am
[JURIST] In Friday's international brief, Nigerian President and current African Union Chairman Olusegun Obasanjo [official profile] expressed outrage Friday after a plane carrying a Nigerian advance party was diverted from the Togo capital city of Lome and denied permission to land. [read post]
28 Nov 2005, 8:05 am
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, Kenyan Vice-President Moody Awori has announced that the Kenyan government is outlawing all rallies by the Orange Movement, the anti-constitution coalition that handed Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki [official profile] a solid defeat [JURIST report] in last week's referendum [JURIST report]. [read post]
12 Jan 2005, 2:45 am
[JURIST] Leading Wednesday's international brief, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez [official website in Spanish] issued a presidential decree Tuesday creating a presidential and national land commission to implement the provisions of Venezuela's four year old land reform law. [read post]
21 Apr 2004, 8:03 pm
In international law news Wednesday, Russia has exercised its power to veto UN Security Council resolutions for the first time since 1994 by vetoing a draft resolution that would have terminated the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus and replaced it with the UN Settlement Force in Cyprus. [read post]
15 Sep 2016, 7:02 pm
“The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter is committed to promoting excellence in fact-checking. [read post]
25 Jan 2006, 5:31 am
[JURIST] Leading Wednesday's international brief, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres [official profile] has called on the UN Security Council [official website] to create a UN peacekeeping force for the Darfur region [JURIST news archive] of Sudan [government website]. [read post]
8 Apr 2004, 2:51 pm
In international law news Thursday, the US will miss an April 29 deadline to reduce its chemical weapons stockpile imposed by the Chemical Weapons Convention. [read post]
17 Sep 2004, 2:42 pm
After several recent attacks claiming the lives of civilians in Iraq, Amnesty International Friday called for an "urgent inquiry" into the incidents. [read post]
23 May 2005, 6:03 pm
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, the Egyptian Parliament [government website] has unanimously approved a decision by Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak [official profile] to send Egyptian troops to Sudan [government website] under the UN peacekeeping mandate in Security Council Resolution 1590 [official PDF text]. [read post]
17 Feb 2006, 12:48 am
[JURIST] Leading Friday's international brief, four high profile Egyptian judges who spoke out against fellow colleagues accused of rigging votes in last year's presidential elections have been stripped of judicial immunity and are scheduled to be questioned by Egyptian police officials on charges of slander against government officials. [read post]
8 Mar 2006, 1:11 am
[JURIST] Leading Wednesday's international brief, a bill passed by the out-going Fatah party in the Palestinian Authority which granted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas [BBC profile] greater presidential powers, including the power to set up a constitutional court [JURIST report] staffed by judges picked by the president, has been referred to the Palestinian Supreme Court. [read post]
7 Feb 2005, 3:57 am
[JURIST] In Monday's international brief, Spain [government website] has began an amnesty program that will allow a large portion of its illegal immigrant population to apply for legal resident status. [read post]
6 May 2013, 12:29 pm
Just received: from the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law/Revue internationale de Semiotique juridique, a link to volume 26, number 2. [read post]
19 Jul 2005, 6:58 am
[JURIST] Leading Tuesday's international brief, UN spokesman Penangnini Toure has announced that two UN peacekeepers serving in the UN Mission to Burundi [official website] peacekeeping force were found guilty of breaking the UN's new, strict code governing sexual conduct of peacekeeping personnel while on assignment. [read post]
12 Apr 2006, 2:58 am
[JURIST] Leading Wednesday's international brief, the UK Court of Appeal has overturned a lower tribunal's decision [JURIST report] to block the removal of failed asylum applicants to Zimbabwe where human rights agencies and NGOs allege that they face torture and inhumane treatment at the hands of Zimbabwe's security forces. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 7:42 am
Thinking Through Internment: 12/7 and 9/11 is an article by Jerry Kang, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. [read post]
30 Sep 2008, 6:14 pm
[JURIST] The Canadian Bar Association (CBA) joined with Lawyers Without Borders [official websites] and six other international legal organizations on Tuesday to call for the return [CBA news release] of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive], in the latest attempt to return Khadr to his native Canada to face charges under Canadian law. [read post]
26 Feb 2007, 1:24 pm
Book review of Peter Stone, EU Private International Law Harmonisation of Laws [Elgar European Law, Cheltenham, 2006, lvi+462pp, ISBN 1-84542-015-2]. [read post]
18 Mar 2005, 7:33 am
[JURIST] In Friday's international brief, a new poll published Friday by Le Parisien newspaper has the scheduled May 29 national referendum on the European Constitution failing with a 51% "no" vote. [read post]
