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21 Oct 2007, 11:10 pm
Allow me now to introduce myself and show you why I chose Sacagawea (right) as my IntLawGrrls transnational foremother.Sacagawea is best known for her contribution to the Lewis and Clark expedition, which was sponsored by President Thomas Jefferson, funded by Congress, and charged with exploring the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and finding navigational waterways across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 3:02 am
Last week's Executive Order to close the Guantánamo detention camp by this time next year -- about which IntLawGrrl Kristine A. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 5:15 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post)Yesterday, the former President of the United States, George W. [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 8:35 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post)Upon his return from exile in 2010, Jean Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier (left) was promptly charged for financial and political crimes. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 4:39 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post)In 2010, the U.S. government imposed over US $1.7 billion in penalties and disgorgement for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act – the greatest amount in the history of the enforcement of the Act. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 10:12 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post)TUNIS - In Tunis last week, human rights defenders from across North Africa gathered to discuss the role that the regional African human rights system can play in the current transformation of North Africa. [read post]
9 Oct 2011, 5:07 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post)Beginning in 1999, the Government of Rwanda passed and implemented a series of laws, regulations, and policies designed to reform the land tenure system as well as grant women rights to own and use land on an equal status with men. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 7:20 pm
(Another in IntLawGrrls' series of Kampala Conference posts)KAMPALA, Uganda – The adoption in 1998 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court marked the first time that an international criminal body was authorized to award against individual perpetrators of mass atrocities a range of reparations for the benefit of their victims. [read post]
5 Jul 2010, 10:04 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post)For over a century, concerns have been expressed about a ‘crime wave’ involving women and girls. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 6:33 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post)In their quest to hold individuals accountable for war crimes and abuses of international human rights laws, in conflict and post-conflict situations, the international community established varied forms of international tribunals/courts. [read post]
17 Dec 2011, 6:02 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post)My Fordham Law students and I recently returned from a research trip to Cape Town, where we’re working with the Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Task Force (logo at right) and other stakeholders on the campaign to decriminalize sex work in South Africa. [read post]
10 Apr 2012, 11:16 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this introductory post)The phrase “rape and pillage” is common parlance in our society: JayZ raps about it, Sarah Silverman jokes about it. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 6:18 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this introductory post)A report titled Women and the Draft Constitution of Palestine, recently was released by the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling, a nongovernmental organization with offices in Hebron, Ramallah, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem. [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 5:29 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this introductory post) Two back-to-back earthquakes, measuring 6.4 and 6.3 on the Richter scale, struck the towns of Varzaghan and Ahar in northwestern Iran this past Saturday. [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 1:30 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this introductory post) Two back-to-back earthquakes, measuring 6.4 and 6.3 on the Richter scale, struck the towns of Varzaghan and Ahar in northwestern Iran this past Saturday. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 7:57 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post)As is well known to readers of this blog, the first trial of the International Criminal Court, respecting charges that Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (left) had recruited child soldiers, was delayed back in 2008 because the Prosecutor’s failure to disclose exculpatory materials rendered the fair trial of the accused impossible. [read post]
26 Dec 2010, 9:18 pm
UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues and IntLawGrrls contributor Gay McDougall (photo, right) organized and convened the Third Session of the Forum on Minority Issues at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on 14-15 December. [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 3:00 am
First of all, let me extend my thanks to IntLawGrrls for encouraging me to appear as a guest blogger. [read post]
18 Sep 2011, 6:31 am
(Thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post on my paper entitled "Regulating the Irregular – International Humanitarian Law and the Question of Civilian Participation in Armed Conflicts")It has been over thirty years since the adoption of the 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and sixty since the adoption of the Geneva Conventions themselves. [read post]
15 Jan 2011, 12:13 am
For the latest and best analyses and comments on recent events in Tunisia, see Juan Cole’s post, “The First Middle East Revolution since 1979,” Karima Bennoune’s post at IntLawGrrls, “North African People Power,” and Marc Lynch, “The Political Economy of ‘Democracy Promotion,’” at the New Left Project. [read post]
