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March 2012

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Further Steps in ECCC Cases 003 and 004?

6 March 2012 by Administrator

The Phnom Penh Post has reported that the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia has taken steps to inform suspects of the charges against them in the controversial Cases 003 and 004.

EU “candidate status” granted to Serbia - a catalyst for positive change in the Western Balkans region?

5 March 2012 by Administrator

In a significant advance for the nation, European Union leaders, endorsing the Council’s Conclusions of 28 February 2012 on Enlargement and the Stabilisation and Association Process, have granted EU "candidate status" to the Republic of Serbia at a summit in Brussels on 1 March 2012.

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El Salvador's brutal civil war: What we still don't know

5 March 2012 by Administrator

From 1980 to 1992, civil war ravaged the Central American state of El Salvador, claiming the lives of approximately 75,000 Salvadorans. The two primary actors were the government of El Salvador, which received support from the United States, and a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group called the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), which was supported by Nicaragua, Cuba, and indirectly the Soviet government. The Salvadoran armed forces were responsible for the majority of human rights violations committed during the conflict, including a number of massacres during the early 1980s.

Book Review: Interpreting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by Daniel H Joyner, published by Oxford University Press

5 March 2012 by Administrator

This week, Gillian Higgins takes a break from international criminal law and reviews a new book on the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by Daniel Joyner.