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On Wednesday 14 March, Arab magazine The Majalla published an article entitled “The Other Side of Justice in Afghanistan – Has Time Run Out for Afganistan and the US?” Read more... | In an interesting post on the International Herald Tribune’s “IHT Rendevous” site, Mark McDonald asks, “Why Not a Massacre Tribunal in Afghanistan?“ Read more... | In an historical moment for international criminal law, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has handed down its first verdict since the Court opened in July 2002, in the war crimes trial of the Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. Read more... | Today at 12.00 pm, 9 Bedford Row International in association with the University of Middlesex School of Law will host the launch of David Scheffer’s new book: “All the Missing Souls – A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals” Read more... | Since the beginning of the year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has seen 3,000 people displaced following 20 new attacks by the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), in which one person was killed and 17 others have been abducted, according to Fatoumata Lejeune-Kaba, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Read more... | War crimes were committed by both sides in the war in Libya, according to the latest Report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Libya. The advanced unedited version of the Report, which details the results of an investigation by a three-member commission on human rights and international law violations during the war in Libya, was published on 2 March 2012. Read more... | 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. Read more... | 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. Read more... | 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. Read more... | 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. Read more... |
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