international law
- Damilola Banjo
- • May 2, 2023
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Pascale Baeriswyl, Switzerland’s permanent representative to the United Nations, told PassBlue that the country’s historic neutrality does not stop it from speaking out against violations of international law. Switzerland has been a UN member state since 2002, and it…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Damilola Banjo
- • February 6, 2023
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Malta is in charge of the Security Council this month, the first time in 39 years that the tiny Mediterranean nation is back in the chamber as an elected member. As an island, it’s appropriate that Malta is scheduling…
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- Mona Ali Khalil
- • January 14, 2021
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The world watched on Jan. 6, 2021, as thousands of the most extreme supporters of President Donald Trump marched on the United States Capitol after hearing his rallying cry to “fight” and “take back” the country. Inside the Capitol,…
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- David J. Scheffer
- • April 26, 2020
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As the new coronavirus disease, Covid-19, continues to threaten lives and livelihoods around the world, many people are seeking to hold government and corporate leaders to account for their blunders during the pandemic. But in the United States and…
- Categories: Covid-19, International Justice
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- Opinion by Keith Porter
- • May 8, 2017
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We stand on the shoulders of those who created the international order, which has prevented world war for more than 70 years. “American leaders who laid foundations of the contemporary world order envisioned a world in which all peoples…
- Categories: ICC, Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, Peace and Security, US Foreign Relations
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- Opinion by Mona Ali Khalil
- • October 11, 2016
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“Those who seek to bestow legitimacy must themselves embody it, and those who invoke international law must themselves submit to it.” So spoke United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the 59th session of the UN General Assembly on…
- Categories: OPINIONS