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Friday, 21 December 2007

Boyce v. Barbados: Victory at Interamerican Court of Human Rights

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I couldn't find the recent judgment of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights in Boyce v. Barbados on the official website, but Saul Le...
Wednesday, 19 December 2007

Great Day in General Assembly: Death Penalty Moratorium Passes by 104 Votes

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Yesterday, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the death penalty moratorium resolution by a vote of 104 in favour, 54 against and 29...

Failure to Prosecute Crimes Against Palestinian Civilians

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Israeli Defence Force statistics, provided to human rights NGO Yesh Din at the organization's demand, on results of Military Police inve...
Friday, 14 December 2007

Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

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Much recent attention has been devoted to the relationship between human rights law and what is variously called the law of war, the law of ...

Local Relevance of Humanitarian Law: Call for Papers

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Dr Shane Darcy, one of our graduates and now a lecturer at the Transitional Justice Institute of the University of Ulster at Derry, is organ...

New Jersey to Abolish Death Penalty

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Yesterday, legislators in New Jersey vote to abolish capital punishment. The governor has said he will sign the legislation within a week. N...
Thursday, 13 December 2007

Louise Arbour Praises Rwanda's Abolition of Death Penalty in Speech to Human Rights Council

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Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has lauded the abolition of the death penalty in Rwanda. Along with Ga...
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House of Lords Opens Door to Accountability of UK for Abuses in Iraq

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The House of Lords has held, in a case concerning an individual detained by British forces in Basra, that the UK is responsible for such det...
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Wednesday, 12 December 2007

ICTY Judgment on 'Terror'

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The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has a very interesting discussion of 'terror' as a violation of the la...

Extraordinary Rendition and Ireland's Human Rights Obligations

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The Irish Human Rights Commission has just released its report on extraordinary rendition and Ireland's human rights obligations was pub...