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8 Apr 2005, 4:51 am
[JURIST] Leading Friday's international brief, opposition members in Togo [government website in French] clashed with police on the first day of political campaigning for the national elections required by the resignation [JURIST report] of Faure Gnassingbe [BBC profile]. [read post]
24 Feb 2006, 9:05 am
[JURIST] Leading Friday's international brief, South Korea has announced plans to create a national database containing the genetic profiles of individuals convicted of criminal sexual offenses and a national registry accessible by the public that would list names and addresses of convicted sex offenders. [read post]
19 Apr 2004, 3:15 pm
In international law news Monday, the UN Security Council convened an emergency meeting Monday afternoon to discuss the situation in the Middle East, following Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Abdelaziz Rantissi. [read post]
22 Jul 2005, 1:45 pm
[JURIST] Leading Friday's international brief, the main political opposition party in South Africa, the Democratic Alliance [official website], has called on South African President Thabo Mbeki [profile] to reject a request by Zimbabwean officials for financial aid to support the rapidly collapsing Zimbabwean economy. [read post]
10 May 2006, 2:09 am
[JURIST] Leading Wednesday's international brief, the High Court in London has recommended that the UK hacker behind unprecedented attacks on US military computer systems in late 2001 and early 2002 be extradited to the US to face criminal charges [US DOJ indictment]. [read post]
20 Jun 2005, 9:42 am
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minister Ali Chirau Mwakwere [Wikipedia profile] has announced that Kenya [government website] would actively be seeking to obtain one of the two permanent regional seats for Africa under the current proposed reform plans [JURIST report] for the UN Security Council [official website]. [read post]
13 Feb 2006, 12:22 am
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, the Nepal Supreme Court [official website] has handed down an historic decision holding that the Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC) [JURIST report], created by King Gyanendra [official profile, BBC profile] following his dismissal of the elected government [JURIST report], is unconstitutional and ordering the body to cease and desist all [read post]
21 Jan 2005, 12:25 pm
[JURIST] Leading Friday's international brief, a key member of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement [official website], now the ruling party in Southern Sudan, has expressed concern about the makeup of the proposed UN peacekeeping force to be deployed in March. [read post]
21 Jun 2005, 10:08 am
[JURIST] Leading Tuesday's international brief, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka [official profile], Executive Director of the UN Human Settlements Programme [official website], as Special Envoy to Zimbabwe [government website] to investigate the continuing mass evictions [JURIST report] taking place under Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe [Wikipedia profile] [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 4:15 pm
[JURIST] Leaders of 34 international bar associations and law societies called for the "immediate closure" of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in a letter [PDF text] released Monday. [read post]
25 May 2004, 4:14 pm
A representative of Amnesty International has challenged President Bush's plan to demolish Abu Ghraib prison, arguing that leaving the prison standing could aid in the prosecution of crimes committed there under Saddam Hussein's regime. [read post]
28 Nov 2005, 8:05 am
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, Kenyan Vice-President Moody Awori has announced that the Kenyan government is outlawing all rallies by the Orange Movement, the anti-constitution coalition that handed Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki [official profile] a solid defeat [JURIST report] in last week's referendum [JURIST report]. [read post]
7 Feb 2005, 3:57 am
[JURIST] In Monday's international brief, Spain [government website] has began an amnesty program that will allow a large portion of its illegal immigrant population to apply for legal resident status. [read post]
17 Feb 2006, 12:48 am
[JURIST] Leading Friday's international brief, four high profile Egyptian judges who spoke out against fellow colleagues accused of rigging votes in last year's presidential elections have been stripped of judicial immunity and are scheduled to be questioned by Egyptian police officials on charges of slander against government officials. [read post]
7 May 2006, 11:30 pm
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, a Sudanese government official has denied reports that Sudan would accept UN peacekeepers [CBC report] in the Darfur region [JURIST news archive] as inaccurate and unfounded. [read post]
1 Apr 2004, 11:13 am
In international law news Thursday, Afghanistan and six of its neighbors have signed an agreement to create an effective system to combat the region's drug trade. [read post]
21 Mar 2006, 1:06 am
[JURIST] Leading Tuesday's international brief, a Spanish judge has issued an indictment against 32 Islamic militants for an alleged attempt to set off explosives at Spain's National Court (Audiencia Nacional governing statute), the heart of its judicial anti-terror activities. [read post]
24 Feb 2004, 7:16 pm
In international law news Tuesday, Canada's foreign minister has written a letter to the US and the other G-8 nations asking them to promote the idea of a treaty banning weapons in outer space at the UN Conference on Disarmament. [read post]
19 Nov 2004, 9:35 am
The pledge follows a concentrated push by the international community to see the resolution of the conflict, including a rare meeting of the UN Security Council in Nairobi (webcast available here) to specifically address the Sudan question. [read post]
28 Aug 2023, 7:46 pm
The abstract deadline for ICEL4 (the Fourth International Conference on End-of-Life Law, Ethics, Policy, and Practice) has been extended two weeks, until September 15, 2023. [read post]
