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25 Jan 2016, 6:14 am
Here's the abstract: With the acceptance of international criminal procedure as a self-sustaining discipline and as the tribunals established to try the most serious crimes in the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and Rwanda have completed or are beginning to wind up their activities, the time is ripe for a critical evaluation of these international criminal tribunals and their legacy. [read post]
2 Jan 2013, 9:00 am
"Exposures to War-related Traumatic Events and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms among Displaced Darfuri Female University Students: An Exploratory Study," BMC Public Health 12:603 (Aug. 2012) [open access text] "High Initiation and Long Duration of Breastfeeding Despite Absence of Early Skin-to-skin Contact in Karen Refugees on the Thai-Myanmar Border: A Mixed Methods Study," International Breastfeeding Journal 7:19 (Dec. 2012) [open access text] "HIV/AIDS and Associated Conditions among… [read post]
Attempted Possession of A Stolen Vehicle Not Categorically an Aggravated Felony in the Ninth Circuit
24 Apr 2014, 9:11 am
The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) recently held, in Matter of Sierra, 26 I&N 288 (BIA 2014), that a conviction for attempted possession of a stolen vehicle in violation of Nevada law is not categorically an aggravated felony, under INA Section 101(a)(43)(G) and (U), as an attempted theft offense. [read post]
12 May 2014, 1:02 pm
In an complaint filed on behalf of the Sierra Club and Openlands in Cook County Circuit Court, the Environmental Law & Policy Center alleges that the expressway proposal has not received the required blessing of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, which acts as the gatekeeper for federal funds here. [read post]
30 Oct 2014, 12:14 am
A nurse who cared for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone was headed for a legal showdown with the State of Maine on Wednesday over whether the state can quarantine her against her will.The dispute is heightening a national debate over how to balance public health and public fears against the rights and freedoms of health care workers, and troops, returning from West Africa. [read post]
16 May 2013, 6:39 am
In practice, both top-down and bottom-up approaches to transitional justice are being formally and informally developed in places such as South Africa, Liberia, Peru, Chile, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, and Northern Ireland. [read post]
26 Aug 2013, 9:40 am
Drawing on qualitative comparative case studies spanning two decades, including situations where the council has intervened to stop mass killing (Somalia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Sierra Leone) as well as situations where it has not (Rwanda, Kosovo, and Sudan), Walling posits that the arguments council members make about the cause and character of conflict as well as the source of sovereign authority in target states have the potential to enable or constrain the use of military force in… [read post]
7 May 2015, 8:54 pm
” The group is lead by Robert Harris of Sunrun, formerly the executive director of the Sierra Club Hawaii. [read post]
15 Oct 2014, 12:00 am
“It also helps us understand why public health measures have been relatively ineffective in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, where poverty and living conditions create much greater impediments to effective quarantine programs. [read post]
26 Sep 2013, 10:41 am
The remaining species include two lizards, the eastern hellbender salamander (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) and Florida Keys mole skink (Plestiodon egregius egregius), as well as the Sierra Nevada red fox (Vulpes vulpes necator) and boreal toad (Bufo boreas boreas). [read post]
24 Mar 2014, 11:06 am
Members of the FutureGen Alliance, a consortium of energy companies, are aiming toward the start of construction in 2014.A Sierra Club lawsuit seeking to block the project is pending in federal court in Springfield. [read post]
27 Nov 2022, 5:00 pm
It was alleged that the company breached certain warranties and consumer protection laws by knowingly selling cars that caused excessive consumption of oil and had engine defects.This case involves GM vehicles sold between 2011 to 2014—such as the Chevrolet Avalanche, Silverado, Suburban and Tahoe, GMC Sierra, Yukon and Yukon XL—that had a particular engine (the Generational IV Vortec 5300 LC9).At trial, a class representative testified he could not drive his truck long… [read post]
1 Apr 2013, 5:01 pm
City of Sierra Madre (pdf), a recent decision out of the Second Appellate District, the plaintiffs-appellants were the subsequent owners of a piece of property originally purchased from the City through a Disposition Development Agreement. [read post]
30 Jun 2014, 9:08 am
<> Sierra Club v. [read post]
27 Aug 2015, 9:25 pm
Public Financial Management Reforms in Sierra Leone Rauli S. [read post]
13 Apr 2020, 8:30 am
Challenges to Refugee Self-reliance in Berlin, Germany [abstract]Refugee Entrepreneurship and Self-reliance: The UNHCR and Sustainability in Post-conflict Sierra Leone [abstract]*Some of these issues were explored in an RSC research brief, Oct. 2017. [read post]
8 Mar 2014, 2:00 pm
desultorySyllabification: des·ul·to·ryPronunciation: /ˈdesəlˌtôrē /ADJECTIVE1Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm:a few people were left, dancing in a desultory fashionMORE EXAMPLE SENTENCESSome putter along in a slightly languid and desultory fashion.The rather desultory attempts to bring ‘democracy’ to post-Taliban Afghanistan speak volumes.Every ten to fifteen years, the earth wobbles in a desultory fashion… [read post]
18 Jun 2023, 6:51 am
Drawing on research and interviews in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sierra Leone, this book develops a tripartite framework to analyse how states and tribunals work with, despite, or against one another in the fight against impunity. [read post]
29 Mar 2013, 11:09 am
African countries included in the handbook are: Gambia Kenya Namibia Nigeria Seychelles Sierra Leone South Africa Swaziland Zambia Zimbabwe, all fair dealing countries. [read post]
26 Oct 2014, 4:27 am
Currently, the nurse, Kaci Hickox, remains in New Jersey state custody over her objections, published in the Dallas Morning News and the objections of the international aid organization, Doctors Without Borders, for whom she’d worked in Sierra Leone. [read post]
