Search Results for: international treaty

Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque signed two international human rights treaties on Thursday, making Cuba party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural...

Russia is clamping down "on the freedoms of assembly and expression in the run-up to parliamentary and presidential elections," according to a report released by Amnesty International Tuesday. Amnesty expressed concern that authorities are harassing rights...

JURIST Guest Columnist Larry Eaker of the American University of Paris says that EU law on the free movement of capital may significantly complicate the efforts of the French government to keep Societe Generale in French hands in the wake...

Delegates failed to agree on a binding treaty banning cluster bombs by the end of a five-day conference organized by Cluster Munitions Coalition (CMC) in New Zealand Friday, but have agreed to...

The US must do more to meet its obligations to fight racial discrimination under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination , UN rights experts from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial...

The United States engages in widespread and systematic racial discrimination in violation of its obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) , human rights groups said Wednesday. US Human Rights Network...

JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that opinions of the US Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel that are manifestly inconsistent with or violative of the laws of war provide no legal...

Judith Sutherland : "On February 7, 2008, the French parliament enacted a law allowing for the continued detention of offenders who have already completed their prison sentences, purportedly to prevent them re-offending....

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday submitted to the 2008 Conference on Disarmament (CD) a draft treaty, jointly proposed with China, that would regulate the use of weapons in space. According to a press release ...

JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, former Chief Prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone and a signatory of the recent Paris Declaration on child soldiers, says that not only is it morally...