AUSTIN (KXAN) – It’s a question that was met with widespread and overwhelming agreement. Is Russia’s invasion of Ukraine legal? “If this was my classroom, I’d be waiting for someone to raise their hand,” an intelligence and law expert from the University of Texas at Austin said during a panelRead More →
Russia’s behavior begs the question: are we seeing this norm disappear? Not necessarily — but maybe. Countries used to conquer other countries frequently Conquering land, including entire countries, was once relatively common. As I show in my book,State deathbuffer countries – traditionally, countries located between two rival countries – wereRead More →
Russia attacks Ukraine Read more on Russia attacks Ukraine Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a clear act of aggression and a clear violation of Article 2.4 of the United Nations Charter, which prohibits “the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence from any state. In his speechRead More →
Since the Myanmar military took over the country in a coup in February 2021, one of their evil methods of breaking people and fighting opposition is the use of torture. Last week, Mizzima received notification of a letter – forwarded by the Dagon University Students’ Union – written by anRead More →
What principles of international law is Russia violating by its actions in eastern Ukraine? What principles of international law is Russia violating by its actions in eastern Ukraine? The story so far: Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, following the removal of Viktor Yanukovych as president, was the first major militaryRead More →
Since the Myanmar military took over the country in a coup in February 2021, one of their evil methods of breaking people and fighting opposition is the use of torture. Last week, Mizzima received notification of a letter – forwarded by the Dagon University Students’ Union – written by anRead More →
LOS ANGELES, CA, February 2022 – Resecurity®, a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity and intelligence company, was recently the lead sponsor of the inaugural Cyber Intelligence Africa 2022 in Johannesburg, South Africa. PAY ATTENTION: Follow Briefly News on Twitter and never miss the hottest topics! Find us on @brieflyza! The company sharedRead More →
Abdullatif Al-washaliPress TV, Sanaa The Yemeni Center for Human Rights organized a meeting in the Yemeni capital Sana’a. The event was titled “The UN Security Council and the Aggression on Yemen – Airstrikes and Resolutions”. Participants discussed the violations of international law committed by the United Nations Security Council inRead More →
Massive protests for and against the wearing of ‘hijab’ in educational institutions have erupted in various colleges across Karnataka. The situation escalated on Tuesday when a Muslim girl wearing a hijab entered the college, while a group of boys wearing saffron scarves shouted “Jai Shri Ram”, trailing behind the woman.Read More →
North Korea conducted ballistic missile tests in clear violation of international law, UN Secretary General António Guterres noted in a scathing statement released on Tuesday. Pyongyang caused an international outcry over the weekend after carrying out long-range ballistic operations missile tests. The final round was the largest of its kindRead More →
United States: OFAC Reissues Transnational Criminal Organization Sanctions Regulations January 26, 2022 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP To print this article, all you need to do is be registered or log in to Mondaq.com. In a final rule, OFAC amended and reissuedin their entirety, the Transnational CriminalRead More →
The World Bank estimates that without radical and concerted efforts to slow climate change, 216 million people will be internally displaced by 2050 This article from Daniel L. Huizenga, University of Toronto originally appeared on Conversation and is published here with permission. When hurricanes Eta and Iota swept through CentralRead More →
When hurricanes Eta and Iota swept through Central America in November 2020, they flooded cities and towns, caused catastrophic losses in the agricultural sector and contributed to food insecurity. In all, 4.7 million Hondurans have been affected, and tens of thousands decided to leave, forming migrant caravans in a desperateRead More →
A mentor to students who have become prominent Filipino lawyers, Dean Merlin Magallona is considered “one of the best Supreme Court justices we haven’t had” Filipino lawyer Merlin Magallona, considered a luminary of international law, has died aged 87, University of the Philippines (UP) announcement Sunday January 2. Magallona diedRead More →
Leading federal health agency seeks to promote studies on the effectiveness of various harm reduction policies, including decriminalization and safe consumption sites, as part of a campaign to tackle the epidemic overdose. While the Biden administration has yet to take a position on policy proposals to allow safe consumption facilities,Read More →
Srinagar, Dec 22 (KMS): In India’s illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, All Parties Hurriyat Conference Vice President Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar says India is grossly violating international law in Jammu -and-Kashmir, which is a disputed territory recognized by the United Nations Security Council and the world community. According to Kashmir MediaRead More →
Prominent university professor Assefa Fiseha arrested in Ethiopiastate of emergency laws. At least 1,000 people have been detained without trial. The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said that “the state of emergency has not been carried out in a manner which respects the principles of human rights”. Leading Ethiopian scholar andRead More →
Published on : 22 November 2021 The International Law Commission is the United Nations expert body, established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1947. The body is charged with helping to develop and codify international law. It is made up of 34 members elected to the Commission by UNRead More →
By Tendai Makaripe The global arena in which state and non-state actors interact is anarchic. Anarchy is the idea that the world lacks supreme authority or ruler. In an anarchic international system, there is no hierarchically superior coercive power that can resolve disputes, enforce the law or order the internationalRead More →
Beijing: Citing the recent land border law enacted by Beijing, China is using domestic law to violate international law and engage in expansionism in an effort to assert its own claims and rights in the region, including the South China Sea, according to a news article. Writing in Nikkei Asia,Read More →
On Monday, a group of UN human rights experts condemned the United States policy of mass expulsions of Haitian migrants and refugees, warning that collective expulsions violate international law. Thousands of Haitian refugees have gathered in Texas since September, and the United States has started deport them en masse, asRead More →
Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja and Nume Ekeghe in Lagos Counsel for Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, head of the Indian Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Bruce Fien, said yesterday that the continued detention of the head of IPOB remained illegal because it violated international law. Fien, however, said he gathered additional informationRead More →
At University College London there is a self-icon, or the body of a deceased person, which has been preserved and displayed as if still alive. The man, Jeremy Bentham, died over 189 years ago. The figure was fashioned from his actual skeleton (the head is a wax model as aRead More →
Days after expelling seven UN officials, Ethiopia accused them without providing evidence on Wednesday of inflating the scale of the humanitarian crisis and taking sides in the war in its region of Tigray, while the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has asked the country’s ambassador to document the allegations. Speaking atRead More →
The Center for Constitutional Law and Governance (CCLG), RGNUL in collaboration with Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), RGNUL organized an online conference on “Historical Study of Child Rights Legislation in India” on 2n/a October 2021. The conference was given by Shri Priyank Kanoongo, President, National Commission for the Protection ofRead More →
Priti Patel’s new asylum plan stigmatizes asylum seekers in the UK as “unworthy and undesirable” and creates a two-tier system that would violate international law, the UN Refugee Agency has said. The UK Nationality and Borders Bill, which the government introduced to deter people trying to enter the UK ‘illegally’,Read More →
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UN refugee chief says deportations may be illegal Grandi calls on US to lift Title 42 restrictions UN says people have right to file asylum claims Del Rio migrant camp in Texas has become a flashpoint GENEVA, Sept 21 (Reuters) – The mass deportation of Haitians from the United StatesRead More →
Ukrainian authorities have criticized Russia for holding parliamentary elections in Crimea, a peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014. Pro-Russian separatists in the territory can visit polling stations and participate in this weekend’s vote. Moscow, which considers Crimea as part of its territory, has also distributed more than 600,000 passports inRead More →
The Ministry of the Interior has plans unveiled to use “backtracking” tactics in the English Channel, the border force forcing small boats carrying migrants to return to French waters. The move is the latest in a series of strict immigration policies by Home Secretary Priti Patel, following the introduction ofRead More →
Support us and go ad-free According to Press Association, at least 592 people were rescued or intercepted as they attempted to travel to Britain on August 12, a record for a single day. Tragically, a 27-year-old Eritrean has died after he and four other people jumped overboard as their boatRead More →
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A variation of light armored vehicles, similar to those ordered by the Canadian Armed Forces, can be found inside the General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada plant in London, Ontario. August 16, 2019. Green colored LAVs are sold to the Canadian military, but sand colored LAVs are sold to Saudi Arabia.Geoff RobinsRead More →
About 95% of Egypt’s water supply comes from the Nile, which is why the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is one of the country’s most pressing water problems. The GERD conflict began with its construction in 2011, and although negotiations have been conducted between the parties concerned since then, noRead More →
On July 12, the Chinese state-run CGTN announced that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had “evicted” a US destroyer from what it described as “Chinese territorial waters”. The incident reportedly happened near the Paracel Islands, a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea claimed by China, Vietnam and Taiwan. CGTNRead More →
Several sections of an article co-authored by Balraj Chauhan, a member of the Home Office’s Committee for Criminal Law Reforms, are plagiarized. The article, titled “Good Governance: Search for Accountability Mechanism”, was published in the Indian Journal of Public Administration in October 2011. Chauhan was vice-chancellor of the National DharmashastraRead More →
China’s plans to dominate the South China Sea could involve a violation of international sea law in the region. The call for preparation for a “people’s war at sea” launched last year by Chinese Defense Minister General Chang Wanquan is a good example. James Holmes, writing in The National Interest,Read More →
Published on: 05/24/2021 – 5:27 PM Belarus’ forced hijacking of a plane to arrest dissident journalist Roman Protasevich has sparked outrage. FRANCE 24 examines precisely how it violated international law and what can be done about it. The forced hijacking of a flight between two EU members, Greece and Lithuania,Read More →
NEW DELHI: Former Indian attorney general and veteran lawyer Soli Sorabjee died on Friday morning at the age of 91. According to family sources, he died of complications from COVID-19. The seasoned lawyer was born in 1930 in Bombay. The 91-year-old constitutional law expert was recently infected with COVID-19, familyRead More →
A journalist addresses the court on the third day of her trial, from inside a cage. Next to her is a colleague who is her cameraman when working in the field and who faces an equally harsh prison sentence if convicted. “I want to devote my energy exclusively to creatingRead More →
Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed the resumption of exploratory talks between Greece and Turkey. He stressed that energy and territorial disputes must be resolved “peacefully, diplomatically, not militarily and certainly not by provocative actions”. “We criticized actions, including byRead More →
A Notre Dame Law School professor is among legal experts who have condemned US President Joe Biden’s bombing of Syria on Thursday as a flagrant violation of international law. “The United Nations Charter makes it clear that the use of military force on the territory of a foreign sovereign stateRead More →
Nothing is permanent, so everything is precious. Here is a selection of some events – ephemeral or not – in the Buddhist world this week. The American Bar Foundation sponsors workshops on Buddhism and constitutional law The American Bar Foundation and the University of Chicago sponsor a weekly lecture seriesRead More →
Advertising The recent implementation of the national security law in Hong Kong has led to unprecedented mass arrests and the exclusion of pro-democracy candidates from elections. Despite strong opposition from their mainland Chinese counterparts, many international politicians view the law as a serious violation of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration,Read More →
Boris Johnson found himself in a tough spot in the House of Commons today as he was forced to say everyone should obey the law – just a day after his own government admitted he would would violate. The Prime Minister has been asked to explain why he thinks it’sRead More →
Criminal law changes, including banning FGM, are underway to achieve equality, Sudan’s justice minister said. Sudan has approved sweeping amendments to its criminal law, including the repeal of the death penalty for apostasy as well as the removal of the requirement of wpresage need permits from male family members toRead More →
Pro-Indigenous Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Law at UNSW Sydney, Professor Megan Davis, was today named the Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law, endowed by the Balnaves Foundation, on the third anniversary of the declaration of Uluru from the heart. The Balnaves Foundation has committed $1.25 million to the Indigenous Law CenterRead More →