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31 Jan 2005, 11:53 am
[JURIST] In Monday's international brief, the United Kingdom's Special Immigration Appeal Commission [text of empowering legislation] has granted bail to three terror suspects individuals being held without charge or trial in London's Belmarsh Prison [official website]. [read post]
26 Jul 2010, 2:16 pm
Legal History and Ethnology, Legal Culture and Legal TransplantsThis session was chaired by Reinhard Zimmermann, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany, and the opening General Report was delivered by Jorge Sanchez Cordero, Director, Mexican Center of Uniform Law.Use of term "transplant" will govern the discussion. [read post]
29 Mar 2005, 1:34 pm
[JURIST] In Tuesday's international brief, the upper house of the Kyrgyzstan [DC Embassy website] pre-election parliament has agreed to dissolve itself in order to allow government officials and OSCE experts a chance to resolve the nation's current constitutional crisis before violence returns to the tiny Central Asian nation, while ousted President Askar Akayev [official profile] revealed his [read post]
12 Jan 2005, 2:45 am
[JURIST] Leading Wednesday's international brief, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez [official website in Spanish] issued a presidential decree Tuesday creating a presidential and national land commission to implement the provisions of Venezuela's four year old land reform law. [read post]
23 May 2005, 6:03 pm
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, the Egyptian Parliament [government website] has unanimously approved a decision by Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak [official profile] to send Egyptian troops to Sudan [government website] under the UN peacekeeping mandate in Security Council Resolution 1590 [official PDF text]. [read post]
9 Apr 2004, 5:23 am
In international law news Friday, the UN Security Council has begun a closed session debate on a US-sponsored draft resolution (see a March 24 press briefing on the draft resolution by US UN Ambassador John Negroponte here) that would keep weapons of mass destruction off the black market. [read post]
13 Dec 2008, 12:04 am
Intern at Red Red Whine:I'm more than a little punchy and can barely keep my eyes open. [read post]
15 Mar 2006, 10:33 pm
[JURIST] Leading Thursday's international brief, a Ugandan high court judge has refused to grant a defense motion that would have dismissed charges of treason and concealment of treason [JURIST report] against Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye [BBC profile]. [read post]
17 May 2008, 1:30 pm
[JURIST] Amnesty International welcomed [advocacy press release] Saturday the recently-announced public inquiry [MOD press release; JURIST report] into the death of Baha Mousa [BBC report; JURIST news archive], an Iraqi hotel receptionist who died in British military custody in 2003. [read post]
25 Mar 2003, 7:42 pm
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan met Tuesday at UN Headquarters in New York with US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice:The Secretary-General repeated his public call on all parties involved in the war to meet their obligations towards civilians under international humanitarian law. [read post]
24 Nov 2005, 7:43 am
[JURIST] Leading Thursday's international brief, the Turkish Parliament [government website in Turkish] has voted to investigate the grenade bombing of a former Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) [advocacy website] member in the primarily Kurdish town of Semdinli. [read post]
14 Feb 2006, 1:01 am
[JURIST] Leading Tuesday's international brief, South Korea has nominated its Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon [official profile] as a candidate for the office of the UN Secretary-General [official website]. [read post]
22 Feb 2006, 8:39 am
[JURIST] Leading Tuesday's international brief, Israeli attorney Eran Shahar, representing Civil Coalition (CC), a civil rights group, has filed a lawsuit against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [BBC profile] in the German Constitutional Court on charges of incitement and denying the existence of the World War II Holocaust [BBC backgrounder]. [read post]
26 Apr 2006, 8:53 am
[JURIST] Leading Tuesday's international brief, members of Thailand's Supreme Court [government backgrounder] have agreed to a request by Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej [official profile] that they take an active role in resolving the country's ongoing election crisis [JURIST report]. [read post]
27 Jan 2005, 10:15 am
[JURIST] In Thursday's international brief, senior African Union [official website] officials are reporting that the Sudanese government [official website] bombed a Darfur village Wednesday, with NGO workers present for the first time to actually witness the explosions. [read post]
15 Apr 2005, 6:05 am
[JURIST] Leading Friday's international brief, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque [official profile in Spanish] announced Friday that Cuba rejected the UN Human Rights Commission [official website] resolution calling on Cuba [government website] to allow a special envoy to visit the island nation to investigate abuses. [read post]
16 Feb 2006, 1:47 am
[JURIST] Leading Thursday's international brief, the civilian criminal trial of Ugandan opposition leader Dr. [read post]
12 Apr 2006, 2:58 am
[JURIST] Leading Wednesday's international brief, the UK Court of Appeal has overturned a lower tribunal's decision [JURIST report] to block the removal of failed asylum applicants to Zimbabwe where human rights agencies and NGOs allege that they face torture and inhumane treatment at the hands of Zimbabwe's security forces. [read post]
29 Oct 2013, 7:52 am
The Associazione Italiana Diritto e Letteratura (AIDEL) announces its International Conference 2013: "Pwers of Voices/Voices of Power" will be held in Verona from November 14 through November 16. [read post]
19 Apr 2006, 2:28 am
[JURIST] Leading Tuesday's international brief, following China and Russia's block of an attempt to implement targeted sanctions [JURIST report] in the UN sanctions committee on Sudan against four Sudanese officials alleged to have intentionally hindered the peace process in the Darfur region [JURIST news archive] of Sudan, the US has proposed an official Security Council [official website] [read post]
