A Blog on International Justice
By Doughty Street Chambers and Böhler Advocaten Date: 31 May 2013, from 17:00 to 19:00. Venue: The Hague Institute for Global Justice – Sophialaan, 10, The Hague, Netherlands. The Arab Spring led to a UN Security Council referral of the Libya situation to the International Criminal Court. In Yemen, the Security Council helped to facilitate [...]
What does it entail to bear witness to events? What responsibility does the act of witnessing carry? These are the central questions evoked by George Azar and Mariam Shahin’s documentary film “Beirut Photographer.” 1982: George Azar, young American photojournalist, was in Lebanon during the Sabra and Shatila massacres, where hundreds of defenseless Palestinian refugees were [...]
The Iraqi Independent High Commission for Human Rights (the “Commission”) intends to create a special court by 2013 with jurisdiction over human rights complaints and abuses in Iraq. The Commission already has powers under its mandate (pursuant to Iraqi Law No. 53 of 2008) to track human rights breaches and refer them for prosecution. The new [...]
source: http://truthaholics.wordpress.com/ The Palestinian News & Information agency has announced that the Arab League has demanded the provision of international protection for the Palestinian people, their leaders, land, and destiny; holding the international community fully responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security. At the Council of the Arab League’s extraordinary session at the ministerial level concerning [...]
by David Tolbert When 26-year old Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire on December 17, 2010, his act resonated across an entire region and sparked what is known as the Arab Spring. His cry echoed across the world because it was a universal call for justice, basic fairness, and equal treatment. Indeed, [...]
In a press release dated 24 June 2012, the Egyptian State Information Serivce announced that the winner of the second round of elections is Mohamed Mursi, receving winning majority of 13,230,131 votes amounting to 51.73% of votes, whereas his rival candidate, Ahmed Shafiq, received 12,347,380 votes amounting to 48.27 %. To listen to a video recording [...]
In his judgement delivered on 2 June 2012, Judge Ahmad Refaat, President of the Criminal Court in Cairo, convicted ousted ex-President Hosni Mubarak and former Interior Minister Habib Al-Aadly for murder and conspiracy to murder pro-revolutionary protesters in January 2011, and sentenced each of the convicted defendants to life imprisonment. However, the judgement declared that the financial charges [...]
The King of Bahrain granting royal assent to the recent constitutional reforms (Photo: Bahrain News Agency) In a recent press release issued by the Arab League, Secretary General Nabil Al-Araby hailed the recent Bahraini constitutional amendments as “an important step in the road, supporting the process of reconciliation and national dialogue between the people of [...]
In a recent press release, the Arab League confirmed that the second and final delegation of its monitoring mission in Algeria had arrived in the capital city of Algiers on 6 May 2012. This second delegation, along with the first one which arrived 3 days before, is scheduled to complete the final preparations for the imminent parliamentary elections due [...]
The UN Security Council issued a statement giving full support to the efforts of the Joint Special Envoy for the United Nations and the Arab League to solve the critical situation in Syria. The statement came after several weeks of impasse within the Council, due largely to the reluctance of China and Russia to take [...]
A recent Report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination condemns Israel for failure to comply with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The Committee confirmed that a State Party is responsible for implementing the Convention in all the territories under its effective control. For Israel, [...]
On 11 March 2012, the Observer published an article dealing with the issuance of legal proceedings this Monday by the law firm Leigh Day & Co against civilian staff of the General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), one of the three UK Intelligence Agencies. The legal action is directed against GCHQ employees who would have provided “locational intelligence” to [...]
Following the parliamentary vote taken on 23 February 2012 in Parliament’s 25th session of its second legislative term, the President of Iraq issued a decree announcing the accession of the Republic of Iraq to the Arab Charter of Human Rights. The Decree states that the accession of Iraq to the Arab Charter of Human Rights aims at including human [...]
On 29 February 2012, the Secretary-General of the United Nations appointed Mr Norman Farrell to replace Daniel Bellemare as Chief Prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). Until recently Deputy-Prosecutor at the ICTY, Mr Farrell is one of the most respected international prosecutors of his generation, widely admired for his integrity, professionalism and work [...]
On 28 February 2012, the Doha Declaration was issued by the International Conference on Jerusalem, as a result of a conference hosted by Qatar on 26-27 February 2012 on request of the Arab League. The Declaration states that the forced displacement of the people of Jerusalem is a breach of international law and international humanitarian [...]
By decree number 94 of 2012, the Syrian President, Bashar Al-Asaad, has officially ordered the promulgation of the new Syrian constitution in the country’s Official Gazette. The constitution, which was approved by a referendum held on 26 February, entered into force on 27 February. Share this: