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		<title>What Would a U.S.-China Bilateral Investment Treaty Mean?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, a senior U.S. Department of State official indicated that the United States and China, following years of consideration and five months of expedited negotiations, will soon have the draft text of a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT).  The agreement would further liberalize the trade relationship between the United States and China, as well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/2010/03/what-would-a-u-s-china-bilateral-investment-treaty-mean/</link>
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		<title>ECtHR Rules Croatian School Segregation Discriminatory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In its decision in Oršuš and Others v. Croatia on Tuesday (3/16), a seventeen-member Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held that the policy of Croatian primary schools distinguishing among students based on their grasp of the Croatian language resulted in discriminatory segregation of Roma students in violation of the European [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/2010/03/ecthr-rules-croatian-school-segregation-discriminatory/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Interlaken Declaration&#8221; Addresses ECtHR Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 18th and 19th, ministers representing 47 nations from the Council of Europe convened in Interlaken, Switzerland to address the need for urgent reforms to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The resulting Interlaken Declaration now sets in motion a process for developing future reforms and the continued existence of the ECtHR.
The Declaration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/2010/03/interlaken-declaration-addresses-ecthr-reform/</link>
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		<title>Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Along With Activists and Scholars, Discusses Transitional Justice at HLS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, March 9, Harvard Law School, the Harvard Human Rights Program, and UNICEF will sponsor the panel discussion &#8220;Children and Transitional Justice.&#8221;
Archbishop Desmond Tutu will participate by video, along with Yasmin Sooka of the Foundation for Human Rights, South Africa, Susan Bissell, Global Chief of Child Protection for UNICEF, Sharanjeet Parmar of Global Rights, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/2010/03/archbishop-desmond-tutu-along-with-activists-and-scholars-discusses-transitional-justice-at-hls/</link>
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		<title>Conviction of Group for Wearing Religious Clothing Overturned by European Court of Human Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Ahmet Arslan and Others v. Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights overturned, by a vote of 6-1, a 1997 decision by the Turkish courts convicting 127 Turkish nationals of breaking two laws, one against wearing headgear and the other against wearing religious clothing in public other than for religious ceremonies. The applicants, members of a religious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/2010/03/conviction-of-group-for-wearing-religious-clothing-overturned-by-european-court-of-human-rights/</link>
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		<title>Violence Mars Darfur Peace Treaty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 20th of this year, a major ceasefire treaty was signed between the Darfuri Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) and the government of Sudan. Jem is only one of the many militant groups in the Darfur region. However, it has presented a significant threat to the Sudanese government. President Omar al-Bashir had made the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/2010/03/violence-mars-darfur-peace-treaty/</link>
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		<title>ECtHR Rules Against Russia On Chechnya Abductions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The European Court of Human Rights, on February 11th, issued two non-final Chamber judgments concerning disappearances in Chechnya. In the two cases, Guluyeva and Others v. Russia and Dubayev and Bersnukayeva v. Russia, the applicants alleged that Russian servicemen had abducted their relatives and that domestic authorities failed to conduct an effective investigation into their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/2010/02/ecthr-rules-against-russia-on-chechnya-abductions/</link>
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		<title>ICC Pre-Trial Chamber Declines to Confirm Charges Against Sudanese Rebel Leader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 7,  a pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) unanimously declined to confirm charges against Sudanese rebel leader Bahar Idriss Abu Garda. Mr. Abu Garda is the first person to appear voluntarily before the court. He had been charged with being a direct or indirect co-perpetrator of several war crimes, including murder, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/2010/02/icc-pre-trial-chamber-declines-to-confirm-charges-against-sudanese-rebel-leader/</link>
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		<title>Cyprus: Further Movement Toward a Political Solution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After numerous false starts, negotiations between the two parties to the decades-old stalemate in Cyprus seem to be moving forward again, this time with the assistance of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Mr. Ban Ki-moon recently made his first official visit to Cyprus. The island nation has been divided into a Greek-speaking south and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harvardilj.org/digest/2010/02/cyprus-further-movement-toward-a-political-solution/</link>
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		<title>Developing Nations Doubt US Commitment to Trade Agreement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two trade ministers from the developing world have publicly voiced doubts about the willingness and ability of the United States to reach a global trade agreement during 2010.  Their criticism calls into question the ability of leaders of the G20 nations to follow through on their September 2009 promise to conclude a trade agreement this [...]]]></description>
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