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UNESCO Approves Palestinian Membership Bid – A Case for US Countermeasures Against the Organization? Christiane Ahlborn is Ph.D. Candidate at the Amsterdam Center for International Law and member of the project on Shared Responsibility in International Law (SHARES) On 31 October 2011, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO) …

U.S. Cutting Off UNESCO Funding After Palestine Vote PARIS — Palestine became a full member of UNESCO on Monday in a highly divisive breakthrough that will cost the agency a fifth of its budget and that the U.S. and other opponents say could harm renewed Mideast peace efforts. Soon after …

NUEVO EMBAJADOR ARGENTINO EN JAMAICA La Cancillería argentina informa que el Gobierno de Jamaica concedió el plácet de estilo a Ariel Fernández como nuevo embajador por la República Argentina en ese país, con sede en Kingston. El flamante embajador egresó del Servicio Exterior de la Nación en 1993. Es Licenciado …

NUEVO EMBAJADOR ARGENTINO EN ARMENIA La Cancillería argentina informa que el Gobierno de la República de Armenia otorgó el plácet de estilo a Diego Álvarez Rivera como nuevo embajador argentino ante ese país, con sede en la ciudad de Ereván. El flamante embajador argentino es abogado, recibido en la Universidad …

A Tale of Two Closures: Comments on the Palmer Report Concerning the May 2010 Flotilla IncidentTamar Feldman is an attorney and director of the Legal Department at Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom of Movement. She would like to convey her deepest gratitude to Sari Bashi and Yoni Eshpar for …

President Obama Creates US Atrocities Prevention BoardEarlier this month, US President Barrack Obama directed the National Security Advisor to create an Atrocities Prevention Board which will be tasked with co-ordinating the US government’s policies on the prevention of mass atrocities and genocide. In addition, the President also launced a US interagency …

EL ESTADO DE ISRAEL OTORGÓ EL PLÁCET AL NUEVO EMBAJADOR ARGENTINO La Cancillería argentina informa que el Estado de Israel otorgó el plácet de estilo a Carlos Faustino García como nuevo Embajador de la República Argentina ante ese país, con sede en la ciudad de Tel Aviv.Carlos Faustino García se …

COMENZÓ EN BUENOS AIRES LA XXXIV REUNIÓN CONSULTIVA DEL TRATADO ANTÁRTICO Ayer, con la apertura oficial del Ministro de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva, Dr. Lino Barañao, se inauguró en Buenos Aires la XXXIV Reunión Consultiva del Tratado Antártico, que deliberará hasta el 1º de julio. En su primera sesión, …

Is IMF Managing Director (DSK) Entitled to Immunity from Prosecution?I intended to write a post explaining why International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK), does not have immunity under the applicable treaties dealing with the immunity of the IMF and its employees. However, Chimene Keitner has beaten me to …

The full text of resolution 1970 (2011) reads as follows: “The Security Council, “Expressing grave concern at the situation in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and condemning the violence and use of force against civilians, “Deploring the gross and systematic violation of human rights, including the repression of peaceful demonstrators, expressing …

CIDH PRESENTA CASO SOBRE ARGENTINA ANTE LA CORTE IDH Washington, DC, 22 de diciembre de 2010 – La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) presentó ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte IDH) el Caso 12.524, Fontevecchia y D’Amico, respecto de Argentina. El caso trata sobre la violación del …

Proposed Amendments to UK’s Universal Jurisdiction LawsSome months ago we noted that the UK’s coalition government was planning to introduce legislation that would restrict the application of universal jurisdiction in the UK. The government was not proposing to restrict the scope of jurisdiction of UK courts over universal jurisdiction offences but to …