http://www.harvardilj.org/digest International legal news Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:53:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Addressing the Security Council on January 6, 2009, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, called for an immediate ceasefire. Ki-moon's recommendations were made particularly in light of the deadly Israeli strike of a United Nations School where hundreds of Gazans had sought refuge. Referring to the damage ... http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/archives/598 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice visited India and Pakistan last week in the wake of the November 26 terrorist attacks on Mumbai in which gunmen killed more than 170 people. Rice pledged U.S. support to India's investigation of the attacks and emphasized the importance of cooperation in international counterterrorism ... http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/archives/582 While attending a conference in Belgium on December 2, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed the United States' support of a gradual, informal resumption of contacts between NATO and Russia.  She stated, “This isn't an issue of isolating Russia, but it is an issue of what kinds of contacts are ... http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/archives/577 A federal judge has ruled that the United States lacks adequate evidence to justify holding five Algerians detained as terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon rejected government claims that there was enough evidence to continue detaining the men, who have been held in Guantanamo for nearly ... http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/archives/573 On November 18, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that it had jurisdiction, on the basis of Article IX of the Genocide Convention, to entertain the case concerning Croatia's Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Serbia). The ICJ rejected ... http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/archives/565 On Tuesday, Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court lifted its stay of proceedings in the case of The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo.  Lubanga, the founder and leader of the Union de patriots congolais (UPC), is accused of conscripting and enlisting child soldiers to participate in UPC hostilities ... http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/archives/545 The INS Tabar, an Indian warship, encountered three pirate vessels approximately 320 miles south-west of the Omani coast in the Gulf of Aden late Tuesday.  When the pirates fired upon the Tabar, it retaliated, sinking the "mother ship" and forcing the would-be hijackers to abandon one of their two ... http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/archives/548 On 18th November, 2008, Navi Pillay, the UN Human Rights Commissioner called for an immediate end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Pointing out that the Israeli action was a flagrant violation of International Law and denied the residents of Gaza their most basic human rights, Ms. Pillay ... http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/archives/538 On Tuesday, November 11, the Rwandan President Paul Kagame declared Germany violated his country's sovereignty when it arrested one of his aids, Rose Kabuye,  and subsequently expelled the German ambassador. Germany responded by asking the Rwandan ambassador to leave Berlin. Kabuye, chief of protocal for the Rwandan President, was arrested Sunday ... http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/archives/534 Ministers of Law from the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met in Brunei in late October for their seventh ASEAN Law Ministerial Meeting (ALAWMM).  Topics of discussion centered around the legal implications of the November 2007 adoption of the organization's first legally binding charter, ... http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/archives/517