By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States apparently violated international law in its military tribunals by using coercion to extract confessions and writing counter-terrorism laws that restrict immigration on questionable grounds, a U.N. investigator said on Friday.
The US Ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, is pressing for a vote on the establishment of a special tribunal to investigate the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik al-Hariri. The current Lebanese prime minister, Fouad Siniora, formally requested the establishment of the tribunal on May 14. The draft resolution circulated by Britain, […]
Carbon Offsetting , I've touched on offsets a few times along the way since March: in "The Business of Green" and in Markets, and of course, in the last post below from Kate Hamilton on Carbon Expo. Here's a succinct description of offsets from a "NY Times" article from May 8, Sale of Carbon Credits Helping […]
The central African nation of Burundi has agreed to set up a war crimes tribunal and truth and reconciliation committee to examine atrocities during its 12-year civil war. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, was in the region as part of a 12-day tour of central Africa, including Rwanda and other Great […]
Where does one find true power? Power is not in money, property, education or jobs, power is with all of us, in our words. If we can only learn to harness the power that we have and use our voices and learn to listen to the words of those around us. When we listen closely […]
Hopefully many of you where able to catch the powerful and shocking, first part of 'slaves in America’ with Charles Gibson to follow the the story of Evelyn Chumbow, from Cameroon, a former slave, held captive in Maryland. Chumbow, was brought to the US at 11, with dreams of an education and new life in […]
International Criminal Court Investigates War Crimes in Central African Republic The International Criminal Court (ICC) launched an investigation into allegations of "massives rapes and other acts of sexual violence" perpetrated by officials of the Central African Republic (CAR). The top courts in CAR had referred the former President Ange Felix Patasse and Congolese rebel leader […]
The International Criminal Court is to investigate war crimes allegedly committed in the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2002 and 2003. (BBC) The Hague court's prosecutor said his investigation would mainly focus on the large number of alleged rapes. The period covers the aftermath of a failed coup by current President Francois Bozize against the […]
Salvatore Mancuso, a top military commander in Columbia testified that the government there was tied to the murder of civilians and cocaine trafficking, stating "paramilitarism was state policy." According to the Washington Post, 14 members of Columbia's Congress, 7 former lawmakers, the head of the secret police, and many others have been implicated in cooperating […]
The Lebanese Prime Minister, Fuad Siniora, has sent a formal request to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calling for the ratification of an international court for Lebanon. The tribunal will be used to try suspects involved in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was killed in a massive explosion there in […]
Photo by Polaris Project “Hiding in Plain Sight: How can we find and protect child victims of trafficking!”- Sheila Neville, Staff Attorney of The Legal Assistance to Trafficking Victims Project One never thinks horrid things happen in their home town, nor does one want to believe that right next door unthinkable abuses are being committed, […]
There's an event in New York this coming week called the Carbon Finance & Investment Summit which I'll visit and on which I'll report. I talked about the carbon market, and others, in the post from April 19, Markets. I then mentioned an event in Cologne, Carbon Expo, that took place at the beginning of […]
Sun May 20, 2007 3:22AM EDT By Marie McInerney ADELAIDE (Reuters) – The first Guantanamo Bay inmate convicted of supporting terrorism by a U.S. military court returned to Australia on Sunday under a veil of secrecy, but “elated” to serve out his remaining sentence at home.
The DC Circuit Court released the transcripts for two cases involving detainees at the naval detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The cases are Bismullah v. Gates (06-1197) and Parhat v. Gates (06-1397).