http://www.harvardilj.org/digest International legal news Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:38:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 On Nov. 6, 2008, the ASEAN Secretariat and the Hubei Province of the People's Republic of China signed a Minutes of Meeting on Strengthening of Trade and Economic Cooperation. The Minutes of Meeting affirmed the two parties' commitment to implement the Memorandum on Cooperation, which was signed by the Secretary-General ... http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/archives/515 In a menacing speech broadcast live across Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev announced that he had ordered Russian missiles redeployed to the border of Poland last week.  Medvedev's remarks provoked concerns that Russia is reemerging as a threat to the U.S. and Europe. Speaking within hours of Barack Obama's election, Medvedev did ... http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/archives/512 On October 20-21, 2008 the ASEAN Workshop on Domestic Violence Legislation was held in Hanoi, Vietnam in celebration of the country's National Women's Day.  The workshop is one of the projects created under the Framework for Cooperation between ASEAN and the United Nations Fund For Women.  Participants included over 60 ASEAN ... http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/archives/510 Now that Americans have chosen the 44th President, international lawyers are beginning to scrutinize President-Elect Obama’s approach to foreign policy, and with that, how he perceives international law. During the Democratic primaries Obama was quizzed by the American Society of International Law, and he emphasized the importance of international law in ... http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/archives/521 The General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations voted last week to elect five new members to the International Court of Justice.  The five judges haling from Jordan, France, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Somalia were affirmed for a nine-year term beginning in February 2009. The International Court ... http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/archives/501 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon encouraged the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring nations (namely, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and South Africa) to take “urgent measures to contain the present crisis created by the upsurge of fighting in eastern DRC” at a UN-backed summit hosted by the ... http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/archives/497