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Comment RSSA number of previous posts have discussed the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri. Today, he was sentenced to eight years in a federal prison. The New York Times reports:
A man who confessed to aiding Al Qaeda in the United States was sentenced by a federal judge Thursday to more than eight years in prison.
Under a plea bargain with federal …
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Al-Marri Sentenced to eight years for supporting terrorist organizations
October 29, 2009 # 7:05 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, Supreme Court # No CommentVideo and Transcript: Interview with UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions Philip Alston on the legality of US Predator drone attacks
October 29, 2009 # 3:03 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations # No CommentTRANSCRIPT from Democracy Now:
AMY GOODMAN: In Pakistan, at least eighty people have been killed, scores hurt, by a large car bomb in a crowded market in Peshawar. Similar attacks have killed more than 200 people in recent weeks, as the Pakistani army carries out an operation against Taliban militants in South Waziristan.
The blast came as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton …
VIDEO: “Pins of Diplomacy” Madeleine Albright on Craig Ferguson
October 29, 2009 # 11:47 am # Foreign Policy, International Organizations # No CommentOur Georgetown University colleague, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, has just written a new book entitled, Read My Pins: Stories from A Diplomat’s Jewel Box. In this book, she discusses her now-famous dress pins that she began wearing as US Ambassador to the United Nations and continued to don during her time as Secretary of State. Last night, Albright …
US Ambassador for War Crimes: Stephen Rapp
October 28, 2009 # 2:22 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations # No CommentFrom today’s Christian Science Monitor:
Madrid – New US ambassador for war crimes Stephen Rapp knows firsthand what it takes to prosecute man’s inhumanity to man. The former Iowa district attorney has already prosecuted participants in the Rwanda genocide and former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor.
The United States is much criticized abroad for its attitude toward international justice and world courts. The …
Video: “”The Perils of Global Legalism”– A debate between Henry Farrell and Eric Posner
October 27, 2009 # 9:47 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations, Supreme Court # No CommentProfessors Eric Posner and Henry Farrell discuss Posner’s new book, The Perils of Global Legalism.
Radovan Karadzic’s phone taps
October 27, 2009 # 9:18 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations # No CommentFrom his the Karadzic trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, the Times reports:
Radovan Karadzic showed his contempt for international justice by shunning his own trial again yesterday, but the chilling threats he made before Europe’s worst atrocities since the Second World War still echoed around the UN courtroom.
Judges in The Hague refused to let Dr …
Video: State Department releases 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom
October 26, 2009 # 10:13 pm # Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law # No CommentHere is the full 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom. The text of the press conference follows below:
SECRETARY CLINTON: Hello, everybody. How are you? Am I up?
MR. KELLY: Yes, you are.
SECRETARY CLINTON: Oh, there’s no like, opening band or anything? (Laughter.) Hello, Matt.
QUESTION: Hello.
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, good afternoon, everyone. I feel honored to be here today to announce the publication …
Video: UN Special Representative John Ruggie on efforts to end human rights violations by corporations in areas of conflict
October 25, 2009 # 1:28 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations # No CommentDr. John G. Ruggie is the Special Representative of the Secretary‐General on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises. Last week, he announced efforts by a group of states to address the problem of corporate involvement in human rights violations in areas of conflict. The UN News Centre reports:
With the worst abuses of human rights by corporations …
