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Comment RSSOver at Foreign Policy, Colum Lynch opines on his candidates for this dubious honor. Not sure I would agree with all the choices, but it makes for interesting conversation! Lynch writes:
Following is a list of the 10 of the most ill-conceived, pointless, or just plain bad resolutions that have been adopted by the 15-nation security club. Some of these resolutions …
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May 29, 2010 # 10:12 am # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, International Law, International Organizations # No CommentDC Circuit Court of Appeals rules that detainees at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan do not have habeas rights
May 22, 2010 # 10:26 am # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, Supreme Court # No CommentIn case you missed this . . .yesterday, a three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals reversed District Judge John Bates’s ruling on the right of detainees held at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The opinion of the court in Fadi Maqaleh v. Robert Gates can be found …
Video: Yahoo! Business and Human Rights Summit 2010
May 19, 2010 # 10:46 am # Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations # No CommentOur 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 …
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 …
