Tag: International Law
15 Articles
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Nukes, Lies, and International Organization
Mohamed ElBaradei’s book, The Age of Deception, highlights three emerging, important, and interwoven issues related to the prevention of nuclear proliferation: the prevalence…
May 16, 2013
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It’s Time for an International Code of Conduct for Private Security Contractors
For the past seven years my organization, Human Rights First, has been working on several fronts to address private security contractor abuses and impunity. We have advocated…
March 26, 2013
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Global Fight Against Cybercrime: Undoing the Paralysis
As the Internet exploded across the globe in the mid-1990s, the Council of Europe was the only intergovernmental treaty organization to recognize that “only a binding…
March 23, 2013
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Climate Change, Conflict, and Human Rights: Nexus or Nonissue?
I. The Science of Global Climate Change Global Warming Earth’s average temperature has increased by 0.8 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years.[i] Twenty of the warmest…
February 27, 2013
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Refugees and Forced Migration: Five Minutes with Professor Susan Martin
[GJIA]: Is there any feeling that the 1951 UN Convention needs to be updated or reviewed? [SFM]: I think there is growing recognition that there are many gaps and so there has…
February 29, 2012