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22 Mar 2004, 6:43 pm
In international law news Monday, the Working Group on Electronic Commerce of the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has agreed on the recommendation of a draft convention on e-commerce that will be submitted to UNCITRAL's full session in June. [read post]
14 Aug 2009, 3:18 pm
[JURIST] Israel's treatment of Palestinians during December and January's Operation Cast Lead [GlobalSecurity backgrounder], in Gaza [JURIST news archive] grossly violated international law according to a report [text, PDF] released Friday by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile]. [read post]
10 Aug 2006, 4:11 am
[JURIST] The human rights situation continues to deteriorate [press release] in some parts of Darfur [JURIST news archive] despite the Darfur Peace Agreement [DS backgrounder] signed in May by the Sudanese government and the main rebel group in the region, the Sudan Liberation Movement [Globalsecurity.org backgrounder], according to a report [PDF text] released Wednesday by the UN Office of the [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 2:13 am
This post on last week's American Society for Legal History meeting comes from Josh Stein, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellow at the New School for Social Research and the New York Historical Society and Karen Tani, Sharswood Fellow in Law and History, University of Pennsylvania.Another highlight of the 2010 ASLH annual meeting was a panel titled “Civilizing and Un-Civilizing War in [read post]
9 Feb 2008, 1:10 am
The (Un)Rule of Law in Puerto Rico: A Republican Approach, has just been posted on SSRN by Martin Hevia, School of Law, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and Joel I. [read post]
7 Sep 2006, 7:38 am
[JURIST] The Bush administration has been "disappointed" with the work [statement, PDF] of the newly formed UN Human Rights Council [official website; JURIST news archive], according to US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Mark Lagon [official profile] during his remarks Wednesday at a hearing [recorded video] of the US House of Representatives International Relations Subcommittee on Africa [ [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 12:25 pm
[JURIST] Upwards of 20.9 million people worldwide work in forced labor, the International Labour Organization (ILO) [official website], a UN agency focusing on labor rights, redported [text, PDF] Friday. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 1:34 pm
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous people James Anaya [official website] on Thursday urged [press release, in Spanish] the government of Colombia [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] to advance its negotiations with indigenous authorities in northern Cauca regarding the military presence in the area, as well as other pressing issues. [read post]
30 Jan 2006, 9:56 am
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, the Sudanese government [official website] has criticized a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights report [DOC text] released last Friday which sharply condemned the human rights condition in Darfur [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
19 Apr 2009, 4:16 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] is in violation of international law for declining to prosecute Bush-era CIA agents who allegedly used torture [JURIST news archive], UN special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak [official profile, DOC] said in an interview [text, in German] published Friday in Austrian newspaper Der Standard [media website, in German]. [read post]
9 Mar 2014, 12:50 pm
[JURIST] On Sunday North Korea held its first parliamentary elections under the leadership of Kim Jong-un, [BBC profile] successor and son of the late Kim Jong-Il. [read post]
31 Mar 2006, 3:07 pm
[JURIST] Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) [official website] Chief Prosecutor Desmond de Silva told the Associated Press in an interview Friday that Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] is being closely guarded by UN peacekeepers from Mongolia and Ireland as he awaits a war crimes trial. [read post]
8 Mar 2006, 7:33 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] will take up the issue of Iran's nuclear program after Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency [official website], transmitted his official report [PDF text] on Iran's nuclear program to the Security Council Wednesday. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 12:11 pm
[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday urged [press briefing] Sudan [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] to initiate an investigation into allegations of excessive force by government security forces against protesters in Darfur Tuesday resulting in eight deaths and more than 50 injuries. [read post]
17 Jun 2008, 3:38 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council Monday issued a short presidential statement [text] calling on Sudan to work with the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] to "put an end to impunity for the crimes committed in Darfur. [read post]
8 Dec 2009, 6:02 am
[JURIST] The North Korean delegation to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] defended North Korea's human rights record Monday while presenting a report [text, PDF] in compliance with the UNHRC's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) [materials] process. [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 10:30 am
[JURIST] Executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) [official website] Yvo de Boer said Wednesday that it is unlikely a new climate change treaty will be concluded until 2011. [read post]
3 Jul 2007, 6:22 am
In an interview with the UN News Service, he said that the large number of [read post]
8 May 2006, 10:12 am
[JURIST] All US personnel are prohibited from using torture when interrogating terror suspects and other detainees, US Department of State legal adviser John Bellinger [official profile] told the UN Committee against Torture [official website] Monday during a second day of questioning [meeting summary] in an annual review of the United States' compliance with the Convention against Torture [text] [read post]
20 May 2006, 3:28 am
[JURIST] The UN Committee against Torture [official website] report [JURIST document] released Friday on US compliance with the Convention Against Torture [text] urged the US to do more to protect domestic prisoners and suspects from violence and threats of violence, in addition to calling on it to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, stop renditions, and reveal secret prisons [JURIST report [read post]
