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27 Dec 2010, 7:49 am
As a result, we are losing species at rates three orders of magnitude greater than would otherwise be expected.The IUCN Red List (prior IntLawGrrls posts here, here, and here) reported that 1/5 of vertebrate species, ranging from 13% of birds to 41% of amphibians, are threatened with extinction. [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]
26 Dec 2010, 2:00 am
Among the many others taking part will be IntLawGrrls Elizabeth Hillman (Hastings) and guest/alumna Mary L. [read post]
26 Dec 2010, 12:04 am
Sophonisba Breckinridge (photo credit), a political scientist and attorney profiled in an earlier IntLawGrrls post. [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 8:38 am
(credit for EFE photo) Yesterday's relegation of once-powerful men to una cárcel común ("a common prison") was the latest in a string of national prosecutions in Argentina; IntLawGrrls' prior posts on this accountability process are available here. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 9:54 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post) Last week, two very interesting things happened in the world of accountability for sexual violence. ? [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 9:51 am
It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Kim Thuy Seelinger (left) as today's guest blogger. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 1:45 pm
(updated)Building Barricades to Protection (IntLawGrrls, Nov. 2010) [text]Egypt: End Traffickers’ Abuse of Migrants - Rescue People Held for Ransom From Sinai Hideouts, Prosecute Captors (HRW, Dec. 2010) [text]- Scroll down for info. on Israeli policy.Hostages, Torture, and Rape in the Sinai Desert: A PHR-Israel update about recently arriving asylum seekers (Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, Dec. 2010) [text]"Israel Repatriates 150 Sudanese in Broader Effort to Discourage… [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 6:48 am
The 1st such conference, held in 2007 at the University of Akron in Ohio, was described a while back in a guest post by the organizer of that conference, Akron Law Professor and IntLawGrrls alumna Tracy A. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 10:07 am
(Prior IntLawGrrls posts available here.) [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 10:04 am
It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Ioana Cismas (right) as today's guest blogger. [read post]
18 Dec 2010, 12:58 pm
For the first time, as described in IntLawGrrls posts available here, the Prosecutor exercised proprio motu powers by issuing summonses in relation to the 2008 post-election violence in Kenya. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 7:15 am
Buffeted in the Borderland: The Treatment of Asylum Seekers and Migrants in Ukraine (Human Rights Watch, Dec. 2010) [text]EU Common Guidelines on (Joint) Fact Finding Missions: A Practical Tool to Assist Member States in Organizing (Joint) Fact Finding Missions (European Country of Origin Sponsorship, Nov. 2010) [text via Ecoi.net]Going Back to Baghdad (IntLawGrrls, Dec. 2010) [text]Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Trafficking: Commentary (OHCHR, Nov. 2010) [text… [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 12:30 am
This post is written with patient tutoring from our resident ECHR expert Fiona de Londras, whose articles in today’s Guardian and over on IntLawGrrls are essential reading on A, B & C v. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 10:10 am
That this situation has persisted for 18 years is an abject failure of Irish politics; if it continues following the General Election it will further reinforce the unwillingness of Irish politicians to finally confront one of Ireland’s most persistent social and legal controversies.There is more commentary, including from IntLawGrrls alum Máiréad Enright, on Human Rights in Ireland. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 8:44 am
It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Lesley Wexler (right) as today's guest blogger.Lesley's an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, Urbana-Champaign, also the home institution of IntLawGrrls guest/alumna Jacqueline Ross. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 8:43 am
(Thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post)The opening and expansion of global markets has created and exacerbated resource curses, the phenomenon in which natural resource abundance creates governance problems.Yet international legal scholarship has been slow to recognize the relationship between freer trade and the financing of internal conflicts. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 11:52 am
That accord, about which IntLawGrrls posted here and here, thus has been officially integrated into the United Nations process.? [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 6:40 am
For a brief summary of what the meetings accomplished, read this post on IntLawGrrls.: Winning & losing (mostly losing) in Cancun. [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 10:06 am
The series anticipates balloting next year, during which Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (right; prior IntLawGrrls posts), President since 2006, will vie for re-election. [read post]
