However, the Act does not apply to LRA leader Joseph Kony and four of his top commanders who were indicted in 2005 by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity. About 13000 LRA combatants have been granted...
The trial of former Serbian military leader Ratko Mladic for suspected war crimes was suspended indefinitely today due to "errors" by prosecutors. | The International Criminal Court's presiding judge Alphons Orie said he had no choice but to delay the trial because of "significant disclosure errors" by prosecutors who are required to share all evidence with Mr Mladic's lawyers but did not do so.
Journalist Salameh Kaileh suffered brutal torture while in custody in a Syrian prison and military hospital. | Unfortunately, the hospital was much worse than what I was subjected to in prison. It was not a hospital, but a slaughterhouse | Disclaimer: Amnesty International is not responsible for information on third party websites.
Thank you, Mr. President. I would like to thank the Prosecutor for his briefing on the work of his office and actions taken pursuant to Resolution 1970. | As we have consistently noted, Resolution 1970 and its referral of the situation in Libya to the International Criminal Court represented a historic milestone in the fight against impunity.
Discrimination and persecution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in South Africa and Cameroon must be halted, Amnesty International said as activists around the world mark the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia.
Last week, the North Gauteng High Court ruled that South Africa's investigating and prosecuting authorities must investigate systematic torture amounting to crimes against humanity committed in Zimbabwe. Those investigations may result in prosecutions and currently hold the best chance of Zimbabwean officials who are responsible for severe human rights abuses facing any form of justice.
Angola Press - Angop - Africa - News - Luanda: A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited another 149 boys and teenagers since April, according to a Human Rights Watch investigation published Wednesday. | The children and teens were abducted from their homes, their schools, from fields and the sides of roads in eastern Congo.
3, Ed. 2 of the University of Puerto Rico Law School's Business Law Journal. An additional paper, written by Safran for his International Human Rights Law course, entitled "Juvenile Justice Policy from the Perspective of International Human Rights,"...
In Chicago, NATO must agree to commitments to ensure all Afghan forces can uphold law and order for Afghan men and women and children. | Twenty leading international and Afghan NGOs today called on NATO and the Afghan government to agree commitments to ensure Afghan National Security Forces are able to protect civilians and are held accountable if they commit abuses or violate international law.
Ratko Mladic, who led Bosnian Serb forces during the Yugoslav wars of the early 1990s, went on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity in The Hague. | Rebekah Brooks, a former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch€™s British newspaper operations, her husband and four associates were charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
JURIST Guest Columnist Leila Hanafi, Regional Coordinator of the Middle East and North Africa at the Coalition for the International Criminal Court says the ICC is necessary for Libya to develop its own fair and productive justice system.
The government should adapt to changes in society and not just "switch off Twitter" in the event of civil unrest, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. | "I think here we should apply a general scope of conduct appropriate to the situations that arise, wherever that may be, whether in New York, London or Moscow," Medvedev said at the International Law Forum in St. Petersburg.
Julian Pecquet: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has scheduled a hearing next week on the decades-old international Law of the Sea Treaty, confirming the Senate's desire to try again for ratification after failing five years ago. The treaty is championed by the State and Defense departments, which argue that the treaty would create a new legal framework for the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes.
Arnold Munthali: UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said on Wednesday he would not oppose a delay to the start of a trial of four prominent Kenyans, including two leading presidential hopefuls, accused of fuelling post-election violence in 2007. The group, including former Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and former Higher Education Minister William Ruto, are charged with masterminding the bloodshed that killed...
Chan, who specialises in insurance law , previously headed up the legal teams at AXA China Region Insurance Company and New York Life Insurance Worldwide Limited in Hong Kong. Dewey's Hong Kong office is among the last of the firm's overseas hubs...
Sanya Khetani: "The hearing is adjourned sine die," said Judge Alphons Orie, three hours into the trial's second day at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. Orie said judges aim to establish a new starting date "as soon as possible." Mladic's attorney has asked for a six-month delay, according to the AP.
Courtenay Griffith, his lead counsel, has pointed out that all those awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court , including the former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, are from Africa. During the trial, Mr Griffiths also said Africans...
Mr. Suleiman, who completed the school in 2001, who now holds a Masters Degree in International Law from the University of Sydney, said he would forever remain grateful for the tuition and guidance he received at the SHS. He pledged more support...
This report explores the key challenges and critical areas of focus for foreign financial institutions arising from the Dodd-Frank Act. Since becoming law in July 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act has come to dominate the financial sector landscape in the US.
The head of the University of Connecticut's Insurance Law Center is scheduled to testify before a Congressional subcommittee about insurance regulation at the state, federal and international level. | The Congressional hearing is about America's insurance industry, its international competitiveness and jobs.
Former Bosnian Serb army commander Radko Mladic went on trial yesterday in The Hague accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He is accused of ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims and Croats between 1992 and 1995. | Mass killings in Rwanda and the Balkans led to the establishment of the International Criminal Court in 2002. There are some similarities between the various cases in The Hague.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Todd D. Robinson visited Lebanon on Thursday and met with Internal Security Forces (ISF) Commander General Ashraf Rifi and toured the ISF training facility...
Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev believes that it is only the Syrian people who should decide what Syria's future should be. | Mr. Medvedev said this at a forum devoted to problems of international law in St. Petersburg. | He added that Russia will stick to this position at the G8 summit, which is due to take place in the US city of Camp David on May 18 and 19. Mr. Medvedev will represent Russia at this forum.
Griffiths maintained that Taylor's conviction sends two messages to world leaders: “if you are a leader in a small country and you are weak, the International Criminal Court will be after you, but if you are a powerful nation, you have nothing to fear.
The title of this just-published book sounds academic. But don€™t be misled. It is fiction: a novel about how West Africa became a transit zone for the international drug trade, how the region€™s politicians and security agencies got lured into the business protecting the intricate web of the drug barons, and how in the end these leaders were outmanoeuvred and got Africa humiliated in the amoral game of big power international diplomacy.
A new United States report on Narcotic which was on Thursday presented by William R. Brownfield, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs before the US Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control has indicted traffickers from Nigeria and other West African countries.
NATION Reporter,: International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo has said he is not opposed to delaying the trial of four Kenyans facing crimes against humanity charges until an appeal on jurisdiction is determined.
A Democratic Republic of Congo rebel general who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for recruiting child soldiers is again forcing boys into military service, Human Rights Watch said Wednes...
United Nations Security Council diplomats vote on a resolution during a meeting on Libya at U.N. headquarters in New York on February 26, 2011. | The Security Council should make clear to the Libyan government that when it referred the situation to the ICC before the war, it never intended to allow a victors' justice.
The convicted war criminal Charles Taylor has accused the international community of selectively targeting African heads of state with prosecutions while ignoring offences committed by US forces in Iraq.
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court argued in summing up Tuesday that two Congolese ex-militia leaders are guilty of a bloody massacre of villagers that claimed more than 200 lives. | Germain Katanga, 34, and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, 41, face war crimes and crimes against humanity charges over the 2003 attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral-rich north-eastern Ituri province.
Keywords: by on May 16 2012 Kennedy International Inc. has issued a recall for its folding step stools because of a fall hazard. The recall affects about 1.6 million Folding Step Stools in the US and 64000 in Canada because the stools can break or collapse...
BBC,: Renegade Congolese general Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, is still forcing youngsters to fight, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. | Over the past month nearly 150 young men and boys have been recruited in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to HRW. | Those who escaped talk of being taken at gunpoint from schools and villages.
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) €” A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited another 149 boys and teenagers since April, according to a Human Rights Watch investigation published Wednesday. New York-based Human Rights Watch estimates that between 300 and 600 soldiers followed Ntaganda in his mutiny. Since mid-April, they have forcibly...
The international human rights organisation Human Rights Watch has warned that Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) avowal to build a new state that would respect human rights, seems to be veering off course.
Amnesty International, a human rights organization, believes that the Ukrainian police actions are dangerous for the supporters of the UEFA 2012 European Football Championship, reads a statement the organization has posted at its website. | "As things stand, fans visiting Euro 2012 are under threat from a criminal police force."
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) issued a declaration in Moscow, confirming adherence to peaceful settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict.CSTO urged for rapid finalization of basic principles of conflict settlement trough the mediation of OSCE Minsk Group, and based on the norms of international law.
International Law Competition is held in Belarus for the 7th time in history. The competition features Cuba, China, Afghanistan, Russia, the Netherlands and others. Unfortunately, military conflicts are a reality for so many people.
This argument fails on closer inspection. | Second, the PRO-IP Act cannot be an ex ante authorization for ACTA because it was not temporally ex ante. The ACTA negotiation began in 2007. PRO-IP was not passed until 2008, and was passed at a time Congress was being told that ACTA would be entered as a Sole-Executive Agreement €“ requiring no Congressional approval at all.
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Keywords: * At least 48 children recruited by Ntaganda since April * Clashes with army force thousands to flee * ICC expands charges against former army general DAKAR, May 16 (Reuters) - A renegade Congolese general wanted by the International Criminal Court...
Gwynneth Knowles QC of Atlantic Chambers, Liverpool, provides a guide through the legal difficulties often created by international surrogacy arrangements. Infertile and/or gay couples are increasingly looking abroad and taking advantage...
A Cumbrian corporate law specialist has helped clinch a multi-million investment for a county sportswear firm. | Michael Walby, of international law firm Pinsent Masons, was part of the team that brokered a deal for inov-8, of Staveley, to receive a cash injection from ISIS Equity Partners. | The money will be used to help expand the global reach of inov-8, which already supplies road running products to 58 countries worldwide.
Apoorva Anubhuti has a paper on the "Americanisation of International Law ". Her thesis is that " International law has become the principal language in which domination is being expressed in the era of globalisation". She examines three different ways...
The world community raised the question: do the Pakistani reservations comply with international law ? Most of the reservations were incompatible with the objectives of ICCPR and need to be withdrawn. Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani directed...
Keywords: by Joel Shenton The trial of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic is now under way at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Mladic, 70, is charged with 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including genocide, in connection...
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This case serves as a warning to parties contracting in an international context. Parties should ensure that they have clarity on what law governs both contractual and non-contractual claims as other legal systems will not necessarily give the same...
Leading international technology, media and telecommunications law firm Olswang, continues its growth strategy by adding new partner Martin Hamer to its German team. Martin Hamer will be joining the firm's public infrastructure group and has a long...
Before his demise, Gaddafi was rumoured to be planning to build a holiday village on Pantelleria, which is located halfway between Sicily and the Tunisian coast and is famed for its crystalline blue waters and unspoilt beaches. | Under Gaddafi, Libya briefly held the biggest single stake in UniCredit, sparking outrage that a North African rogue tyrant could have a powerful voice in the bank.
Ogier have announced that they have been awarded the International Law Firm of the Year award for Europe, Middle East and Asia in the recent Citywealth awards. The Citywealth Magic Circle Awards are an established presence in the wealth calendar...
In Late March, Italy seized 1.1bn euros worth of Gaddafi assets. It has been unraveling the Gaddafi business empire after receiving a request about this from the International Criminal Court.
Janet Levit has a paper on three examples of international law that grew up privately and/or in the free market way and not top-down, in the state way (like World Bank, IMF, WTO, EU, NAFTA). I can't vouch for their total purity, however.
A judge presiding over an international custody case involving four missing sisters has refused to hear any applications as part of a last-ditch attempt to keep the siblings in the country. | The Australian-born mother of the girls, all dual Australian-Italian citizens aged from nine to 14, had been seeking to keep them in Australia permanently since bringing them here on holiday two years ago.
The International Rugby Board has bowed to pressure and extended the jurisdiction of Television Match Officials. This is one of several law amendments that will go on trial soon. | The IRB was established to standardise the Laws of the Game and care for the Laws of the Game remains its first priority.
The biggest problem of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with regard to Hungary's Central Bank Act is not among the well-known concerns, local business daily Napi Gazdaság reported on Wednesday. What the Fund dislikes the most about this legislation is that the expansion of the Monetary Council's...
News International (NI) has spent more than £53m on its investigation into phone-hacking at the company since last summer, with the majority used to pay legal and professional fees. The figure is contained within NI's accounts, recently filed...
THE HAGURE: The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has said he is seeking arrest warrants for two rebel leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo.There is already a warrant out for renegade, General Bosco Ntaganda, but prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he wanted to add more charges to it.
The meeting that kicked off on Monday is centred on how to empower African courts to cover cases of international magnitude which are currently being handled by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. | Kenya's delegation is led by Attorney General Githu Muigai. | "The main agenda of the meeting is to expand the mandate of the court of justice to cover cases of crimes against humanity and other related cases,"
The conviction of former Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga and ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor by the International Criminal Court should, as a matter of urgency, galvanise all conscientious Africans to call for changes in the administration and implementation of international criminal law.
The International Criminal Court will hold hearings next month to set the trial date for four Kenyans accused of directing and financing post-election violence four years ago that killed 1,500 people. | The deliberations from June 11 to June 12 will also explore the safety of prosecution witnesses, whether to disclose their names and referrals to the ICC€™s witness protection program, the Hague-based court said today in an e-mailed statement.
The International Criminal Court reported on Monday requesting new warrants to arrest suspects of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. | The ICC prosecutor said he has requested additional charges be filed against Bosco Ntaganda, who already is wanted by The Hague war crimes court.
Thomson Reuters Foundation: The opening of the trial of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb wartime military commander, is a salient reminder that justice catches up with those accused of atrocity crimes. Mladic's trial for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide is scheduled to begin on May 16, 2012, before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. | "Victims have waited nearly two decades to see Ratko Mladic in the dock,"...
There is not much that the government can do to help Danes with dual citizenship who find themselves detained in their second country. | The Foreign Ministry has received several requests for help from people who were prevented from leaving their other country of citizenship. Ole Mikkelsen from the ministry said that since the detainee is also a national of another country, the Danish government has limited authority.
The International Criminal Court€™s prosecutor asked for new war crimes charges against a Democratic Republic of Congo general and a new arrest warrant for a Rwandan rebel based in Congo€™s violent east. | €œThe public request of the arrest warrant can contribute to demobilize those following Ntaganda and Mudacumura€™s orders,€ the prosecutor€™s office said. Both men currently lead rebellions in eastern Congo.
JURIST Columnist Edsel Tupaz says that Philippine House Bill No. 6052 could breach international law by lowering the juvenile age of criminal responsibility to an age younger than the international community convergence point... House Bill No. 6052, titled "An Act Strengthening the Juvenile Justice System in the Philippines," was approved on second reading on May 8, 2012 in the House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress. Referring to "
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will be the subject of a high-level debate, "Building Restorative International Justice: the ICC of the Future" that will take place on 18 May 2012 at the Royal Commonwealth Society in London.
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South Africa and Zimbabwe may be in for another legal war over the alleged illegal renditions and killings of Zimbabwean citizens in South Africa. | According to reports gathered by LEADERSHIP, a Zimbabwean human rights group has threatened South Africa's chief crime fighting unit with international legal action, over on ongoing probe into the illegal renditions of Zimbabwean citizens from South Africa.
1. To receive and adopt the audited financial statements and independent auditors' report for the financial year ended December 31, 2011. | 5. To authorize the Board of Directors to appoint Directors up to the maximum of 11 or such maximum number as determined from time to time by the shareholders in general meeting to fill any vacancies on the Board.
Did George Bernard Shaw have in mind the Insurance Law Reports when he said that England and America are two nations separated by a common language? We suspect not. When Anaïs Nin said "we don't see things as they are, we see things as we are"...
5/15/2012 6:48 AM ET (RTTNews) - Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor at the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), said on Monday that he was seeking new warrants for the arrests of two rebel leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). | Addressing a news conference at the U.N.
NAIROBI, Kenya, May, 15 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday said the four Kenyans accused of crimes against humanity do not have to appear in person at the status conferences scheduled for June this year. ICC Spokesman Fadi el Abdallah told Capital FM News that the accused can be represented by their lawyers [...]
On 17 April Palestinian organizations called for action against G4S for its role in Israeli prisons where Palestinian political prisoners from the occupied territories are held in contravention of international law. | Establishing businesses in the settlements entrenches the illegal settlements and may also lead to their growth. G4S assists this process by providing security services to the businesses concerned.
Get unexpectedly arrested by the International Criminal Court while vacationing in St. Tropez with Michelle, Jay-Z, and Beyonce? Angle for a Supreme Court seat? Do the Davos thing with Bill Clinton? Sign onto The Daily Show in a throwback Ed...
SDI has received widespread interest in the BIP40 from Military and Law Enforcement agencies globally, due to its extended range and patented collapsible projectile system. This system permits the round to disperse the impact inertia to a larger surface area on the subject. | "Our move into production will enable us to fulfill requests for demonstration and field testing rounds that have been received for the BIP40"
BRUSSELS, May 15 (KUNA) -- International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will brief the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on the situation in Libya in New York tomorrow, Wednesday. The Hague-based ICC, in a statement Tuesday...
Spanish oil company Repsol started motions Tuesday to sue the Argentine government in the hope of collecting at least $10 billion for the seizure of its subsidiary YPF. | Repsol informed the Buenos Aires government on Tuesday that it was following through with legal action under the Treaty for Investment Promotion and Protection between Spain and Argentina. Repsol is seeking compensation with the World Bank'
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court argued in summing up Tuesday that two Congolese ex-militia leaders are guilty of a bloody massacre of villagers that claimed more than 200 lives. | Germain Katanga, 34, and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, 41, face war crimes and crimes against humanity charges over the 2003 attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral-rich northeastern Ituri province.
Ten Chinese and Indian commercial airlines have failed to abide by EU law requiring them to offset their carbon emissions, while all other international carriers have complied with the scheme, the European Union's climate chief said on Tuesday.
The guerilla movement, led by Joseph Kony, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, became notorious for its use of kidnapped child soldiers. Ugandan army reportedly conducted a raid in the Central African Republic this weekend...
Sometimes it seems as though the entire global legal profession is lined up to try to carve out a slice of the China outbound legal market, which all predict will produce the next wave of lucrative work for the top international law firms.
Keywords: eporting South Sudanese refugee seekers living in Israel would not violate international law and thus is a legitimate option for the government to use, according to a Foreign Ministry document leaked to the press this week. However, ministry officials said Tuesday they were merely exploring the question from a legal angle and did not actually recommend the government expel any South Sudanese.
Slindo Mbuyisa: The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said he is seeking new charges against Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda, as well as an arrest warrant for the head of a Rwandan rebel..
Angola Press - Angop - Africa - News - Luanda: The African Union has "no reason" to bar Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from the pan-African grouping's summit in Malawi in July, a minister said on Monday. | Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Sudan's troubled Darfur region. | "The chairman of the African Union has no reason not to invite President Omar al-Bashir,"
ISRAEL'S accelerated program of settlement construction - considered illegal under international law - was threatening to ''make a two-state solution impossible'', the European Union Foreign Affairs Council has warned. The council also criticised...
Lawyers for Bosnian Serb ex-army chief Ratko Mladic sought yesterday a six-month adjournment of his war crimes trial at the International Criminal Court, two days before the hearing was due to open. | Mr Mladic, 70, stands accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and the massacre of Muslims at Srebrenica, Europe's worst atrocity since Nazi rule.
The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for African rebel leaders Bosco Ntaganda and Sylvestre Mudacumura, who are allegedly responsible for crimes against humanity in eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). | ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that he hopes that "arrest warrants against leaders of militias could help to stop the crimes"
BRUSSELS €“ A total of 10 Chinese and Indian commercial airlines have broken EU law requiring them to offset their carbon emissions, while all other international carriers flying to or from Europe have complied, the European Union€™s climate chief said on Tuesday. | The EU law demanding all airlines participate in the EU€™s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) has prompted outcry and threats of a trade war.
International law firm Pinsent Masons today launched its What's Market? Technology Report covering Q1 2012. The report uncovered a growth in tech start up transactions, a focus on biosciences activity, greater international influence on deals...
Angola Press - Angop - Africa - News - Luanda: The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor on Monday sought new war crimes charges against Bosco "Terminator" Ntaganda and another notorious Democratic Republic of Congo warlord. | Ntaganda and Sylvestre Mudacumura are two of the "most dangerous" men in a region where millions have been killed in the past 20 years, chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said in announcing the charges.
Full transcripts of the charges, witness statements and other relevant material will now be sent to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court , as well as the United Nations and the Security Council. The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission...
Keywords: by Ray McGovern, May 14, 2012 Since even readers of The New York Times are aware of Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan's open identification with torture, secret prisons, and other abuses of national and international law ...
US Intelligence recently reported concern over the likelihood of T&T radicals establishing links with international terrorists. | Moreover, there is also worry about T&T being a viable transit point for drugs, arms and ammunition. Although this is cause for alarm, the CoP is seeking to trivalise the dilemma by drawing attention to T&T's location making us a natural transit point.
The delegations of Brazil, Nigeria, Zambia and Congo Brazzaville, which attended on 9-11 May in Luanda the international seminar on military criminal law and 6th meeting of International Association of Military Justices, left on Saturday for their countries.
THE International Criminal Court (ICC) has dismissed the proposal that the four suspects of the Kenya's post-election violence cases be transferred from The Hague and face charges before the East African Court of Justice in Arusha.
The Military Justice prosecutor of Brazil, Antonio Pereira Duarte, this Sunday here considered as very positive the International Seminar on Military Criminal Law and the 6th meeting of the International Association of Military Justices.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has reported that no branch of the military service has been involved in any instance of human rights violations (HRV) during the first four months of 2012. Col. Arnulfo Burgos, Jr., AFP spokesperson, attributes this positive development to the continuing efforts of the military command to educate and train its soldiers on the protection of human rights and adherence to the international humanitarian law...
Chris Bryant: 'News International knew information about what the secretary of state was going to say before he said it, and also before commercial operators did' | How analytics can provide story leads and new anglesIn this week's Journalism.co.
Alzheimer's Society: Wragge & Co, a UK headquartered international law firm, have chosen to support Alzheimer's Society as their charity of the year 2012. | As part of their fundraising efforts, 14 intrepid cyclists from their Birmingham and London offices will be setting off on 15 May from London and cycling the 300 miles to their Paris office.
Macedonia to get what it deserves - NATO membership invitation and a date for start of accession talks with the EU and the judgement of the International Court of Justice to be taken into consideration, which clearly points out that Greece has breached the international law by blocking Macedonia's integration to the Alliance.
While the global legal market has been steadily opening up to international players - South Korea is the latest to allow foreigners in - India has remained stubbornly closed. And if some of the country's lawyers got their way, it would become even...
International law firm Taylor Wessing has entered the growing central and eastern European market through a merger with Austrian law firm e|n|w|c, as part of its strategy for international expansion.
Although Mr. Acellam is not one of the rebel commanders indicted along with Mr. Kony in 2005 by the International Criminal Court , Ugandan officials said he was one of Mr. Kony's top military strategists and a reliable fighter. Mr. Kony recently became...
KAMPALA, Uganda €” A Ugandan army official says Ugandan forces have captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border. Kony recently became the focus of international attention after the U.S. advocacy group Invisible Children made an online video seeking to make him famous.
Ugandan commanders displayed Caesar Achellam to reporters after his capture in what they said was a weekend raid in the Central African Republic. The CAR is one of several African Union countries that has committed troops to hunt down LRA chieftain Joseph Kony, who is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. | Achellam told reporters he hoped his capture would lead "my people remaining in the brush" to give up...
A Supreme Court judgment in India has asked private schools to provide 25 percent of places to poorer students. | But the Act that guarantees education to every school age child in the country has divided opinion in India. | While activists believe the ruling is a great step towards equal opportunity for all, some are apprehensive about the decision suggesting it will lead to social friction.
Airport spokesman David Korzep said Friday that police in West Jordan have been alerted and asked to help "catch the knuckleheads" who put the aircraft and their crews and passengers at risk. | "It's a crucial phase of flight, the final approach to your destination," he said. "This is a huge safety consideration."