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Comment RSSOur friends at Yahoo! convened their annual Yahoo! Business and Human Rights Summit earlier this month at the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, California earlier this month. I was, unfortunately, unable to attend, but Georgetown’s Yahoo! Fellow, Evgeny Morozov, was an active participant.
What follows is a post by Christine Bader on the Yahoo! Business & Human Rights blog of her reflection …
Article Archive for May 2010
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May 19, 2010 # 10:46 am # Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations # No CommentBreaking News: Russia, China agree to draft Security Council resoultion to impose new sanctions for Iran
May 18, 2010 # 10:05 am # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, International Law, International Organizations # No CommentThe New York Times is reporting:
The Obama administration announced Tuesday morning that it has struck a deal with other major powers, including Russia and China, to impose new sanctions on Iran, a sharp repudiation of the deal Tehran offered just a day before to ship its nuclear fuel out of the country.“We have reached agreement on a strong draft with …
Video: The Report on NATO’s Future by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General
May 17, 2010 # 12:51 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations # No CommentBreaking News: Supreme Court rejects life terms for juveniles that have not killed anyone
May 17, 2010 # 10:23 am # Human Rights, International Law, Supreme Court # No CommentThe AP reports:
The Supreme Court has ruled that teenagers may not be locked up for life without chance of parole if they haven’t killed anyone.
By a 5-4 vote Monday, the court says the Constitution requires that young people serving life sentences must at least be considered for release.
The court ruled in the case of Terrance Graham, who was implicated in …
Obama Administration defends the relevance of international law to detention authority
May 15, 2010 # 10:08 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations, Supreme Court # No CommentIn case you missed this, in a brief submitted to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday, May 13, the Obama Administration made an important statement about the applicability of the laws of war to the on-going “war on terror.” In Al-Bihani v. Obama, the D.C. Circuit upheld the decision of the District Court denying Al-Bihani’s petition for a …
MUSIC VIDEO: 8 Goals for Africa . . . The Millennium Development Goals
May 14, 2010 # 6:16 pm # Armed Conflict, Education, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations # No Comment8 Goals For Africa from 8 Goals For Africa on Vimeo.The ‘8 GOALS FOR AFRICA’ song is part of an awareness and advocacy campaign developed by the United Nations System in South Africa on the 8 MDGs.
From the Millennium Development Goals advocacy campaign by the UN in South Africa website:
End poverty by 2015 is the historic promise 189 world leaders …
Video: Assistant Secretary of State Arturo Valenzuela delivers remarks at the 40th Washington Conference on the Americas
May 13, 2010 # 11:11 pm # Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Organizations # No CommentElena Kagan: Professors Stephen Bainbridge and Paul Campos discuss her nomination on NPR
May 11, 2010 # 11:53 am # Supreme Court # No CommentMy dear friend UCLA Law Professor Steve Bainbridge and Professor Paul Campos of the University of Colorado Law School discuss the nomination of Elena Kagan on NPR. I think Steve clearly has the better of this discussion.
