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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 3 February 2018
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The UN expressed concern Thursday about human rights abuses in Mali despite the Malian government signing a peace agreement in 2015 with several armed groups. The International Court of J (More)
UN Security Council calls for 'sustainable solutions' for millions in Darfur
The UN Security Council said in a statement Wednesday that they are in support of reviewing and adjusting priorities in its Darfur Peacekeeping Operation, underlining the need for sustainable solutions for more than 2.7 million people displaced wit (More)
HRW urges Sudan to release peaceful demonstrators
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Sudanese government on Monday to immediately release peaceful protesters from detention or grant them full due process. The demonstrators were arrested while protesting Sudan's 2018 budget, which triples the U (More)
Misunderstanding Indigenous Legal Values in South Sudan
JURIST Guest Columnist Chris Jones-Pauly discusses the misunderstandings regarding the indigenous laws of South Sudan in the context of transitional justice. In December 2013 South Sudan exploded into civil war, three years after the South's seces (More)
World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 16 December 2017
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The legal world is a busy place. United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer on Wednesday called on the US to end impunity for those officials who have committed acts of tortur (More)
ICC announces referral of Jordan to Security Council over Bashir visit
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday announced that it will refer the Kingdom of Jordan to the United Nations Security Council over its failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir . The referral comes after the ICC decided iss (More)
Investigating the Third Term Related Crimes in Burundi
JURIST Guest Columnist Professor Pacifique Manirakiza of the University of Ottawa discusses the complexities behind investigations into the atrocities in Burundi and the need for a special tribunal to prosecute the crimes ... In April 2016, the Inte (More)
Why the Office of Global Criminal Justice is Worth Saving
JURIST Guest Columnist Megan A. Fairlie of the Florida International University College of Law discusses the value of preserving an important, unsung hero of the State Department... Earlier this month, former State Department Deputy Beth van Schaa (More)
Italy outlaws torture in controversial bill
Italy's Chamber of Deputies approved a bill on Wednesday to outlaw certain forms of torture. The new law defines torture as "acts, single or repeated, causing suffering and trauma such as to harm the dignity of a person, already deprived of their (More)
ICC rules South Africa violated obligations by failing to arrest Al-Bashir
The International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled Thursday that South Africa violated its obligation by failing to arrest Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir when he visited the country in 2015. Two arrest warrants [text, PDF; second warrant, PDF] have b (More)
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