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18 Mar 2003, 1:16 pm
[JURIST] The Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists [advocacy website] said Tuesday it was "deeply dismayed" that "a small number of states are poised to launch an outright illegal invasion of Iraq, which amounts to a war of aggression. [read post]
28 Feb 2005, 1:43 pm
[JURIST] In Monday's international brief, France's National Assembly [official website in French] met today in joint session with the country's Senate [official website] at the historic Palace of Versailles to approve an amendment to the French constitution [official text] that would permit the nation to hold a referendum on approving the proposed European constitution [official website]. [read post]
19 May 2005, 5:06 pm
[JURIST] Leading Thursday's international brief, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe [Wikipedia profile] has refused to sign a controversial bill that would have severely limited the rights of NGOs to act in Zimbabwe [government website], according to newspaper reports. [read post]
29 Jul 2004, 9:00 am
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Thursday reduced from 45 to nine years the sentence of a Bosnian Croat general after quashing many of the charges against him. [read post]
7 Apr 2005, 6:57 am
[JURIST] Leading Thursday's international legal news, the continuing dispute over how to remove former Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev [archived profile] has resulted in the postponement of the national elections originally scheduled for June. [read post]
17 Feb 2005, 9:30 am
[JURIST] Amnesty International [official website] said Thursday that the recent imposition of emergency rule in Nepal by King Gyanendra [BBC profile] has taken the country to the "brink of disaster" and that the human rights crisis in the country could turn into a "catastrophe". [read post]
5 May 2006, 2:38 am
[JURIST] Leading Friday's international brief, the newly formed political cabinet [JURIST report] in Nepal has agreed on the membership of a judicial commission that will investigate state police and security force actions during pro-democracy protests [JURIST news archive] last month that led to the capitulation of King Gyanendra [official profile], allowing the formation of a new democratic [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]
12 May 2006, 2:23 am
[JURIST] Leading Friday's international brief, five individuals who served as the political cabinet for King Gyanendra [official profile] after he dissolved the lawfully elected government [JURIST report] in February 2005 have been arrested on charges of "making statements aimed at disturbing the public peace. [read post]
11 Apr 2006, 2:59 am
[JURIST] Leading Tuesday's international brief, Israel's cabinet has declared Prime Minister Ariel Sharon [official profile; BBC profile] to be permanently incapacitated [press release], marking the official end of the Sharon administration and opening the way for acting-PM Ehud Olmert to assume control of the administration as interim prime minister. [read post]
24 Nov 2006, 3:43 pm
[JURIST] The International Bar Association (IBA) [official website], the leading global organization of legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies, announced [press release] Friday that it has canceled a training program for Cambodian lawyers representing defendants in the genocide trial of Khmer Rouge [JURIST news archive] leaders. [read post]
17 Mar 2004, 9:53 am
In international law news Wednesday, Poland's Foreign Minister has said that the country is ready to compromise in the deadlock over voting rights in the draft European constitution and called for an agreement before the end of June. [read post]
2 Nov 2008, 1:57 pm
[JURIST] Officials from the German Foreign Ministry [official website] on Saturday said that Germany will seek a ruling from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) [official website] to block new claims for personal damages resulting from Nazi actions in World War II. [read post]
14 Nov 2007, 12:02 am
Richard Oppong, Lancaster Law School, has a new article, "Private International Law in Africa: Past, Present and Future" in the latest issue of the American Journal of Comparative Law ((2007) 55 AJCL 677-719.) [read post]
14 Jun 2005, 7:24 am
[JURIST] Leading Tuesday's international brief, the Argentine Supreme Court [judicial website in Spanish] has struck down the nation's two amnesty laws preventing former military and government officials from being investigated and prosecuted for alleged crimes and human rights abuses during the 1970s and '80s military dictatorship and the anti-leftist campaign called the Dirty War [Wikipedia [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]
27 Sep 2005, 10:04 am
[JURIST] Leading Tuesday's international brief, China's Supreme Peoples' Court [official website] regained the power to review death sentences on Tuesday, after nearly six months of intense criticism of the old process, which allowed regional courts to review death sentences. [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]
5 Apr 2004, 2:32 pm
In international law news Monday, Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has called for changes to the EU Stability and Growth Pact in order to emphasize nurturing economic growth instead of curbing deficits. [read post]
19 May 2004, 10:58 am
In a strongly-worded statement issued Wednesday and presumably timed to coincide with the first court-martial over the Abu Ghraib prison abuses, UK-based human rights group Amnesty International has called for the US Congress to establish an impartial and independent commission of inquiry to investigate US "war on terror" detentions across the globe:Since the outset of the "war on terror", the US [read post]
