Over at the Monkey Cage, my friend and colleague, Erik Voeten posts:
Henry Farrell and Eric Posner have been sparring over international law and the role of the UN Human Rights Council in a number of posts at Crooked Timber and the Volokh Conspiracy. Some of these posts were about two articles I wrote with Jim Lebovic about the Council’s predecessor: …
In case you missed it, Yahoo!’s Program in Business and Human Rights has just begun a new blog! Under the leadership of Ebele Okobi-Harris, Director of the Business and Human Rights Program, the blog contains a series of posts on critical issues for the human rights community. From the inaugural post, Ebele writes:
Hello, and welcome to the Yahoo! Business & …
As a previous post noted World Food Day was October 16. This past week, the United Nations held a ceremony to commemorate World Food Day and draw public attention to the urgency of global hunger. Under the UN umbrella, three specialized agency of the United Nations system, the World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the …
TRANSCRIPT 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 …
Our 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 …
From 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 …
Professors Eric Posner and Henry Farrell discuss Posner’s new book, The Perils of Global Legalism.
Anthony Clark Arend is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the Director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service in the Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Commentary and analysis at the intersection of international law and politics.
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