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Global JusticeCan Nukes Ever be Safe?
Academics often cite "security dilemma" explanations to demonstrate how nuclear proliferation spreads. When one country has it, others will follow suit in...
Global JusticeComprehensive Peace in Sudan
The United States has named three Strategic Objectives for Sudan: A definitive end to conflict, gross human rights abuses, and genocide in...
NewsICC Investigation in Guinea
Today the International Criminal Court announced that the Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, would be looking into the recent events in Guinea. On...
NewsHuman Rights Council closes 12th Session
On the 2nd October, the Human Rights Council closed its twelfth regular session. It passed resolutions on a number of human rights...
Global JusticeEducation in South Africa
Last week in Cape Town, South Africa thousands of children took to the streets to protest for better schools. After apartheid ended...
NewsU.N. Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict Reports
On September 15th, during the ongoing 12th session of the Human Rights Council, the U.N. Fact- Finding Mission on the conflict in...
NewsIranian offer for nuclear talks receives poor reception in Washington
In responding to Iran's recent offer for talks concerning international nuclear non-proliferation, the State Department has said that the offer fails to...
NewsHuman Rights Abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Two reports were released by the United Nations on September 7, 2009 regarding human rights abuses, and possible war crimes in the...
NewsBush Administration sought to soften treaty on ‘forced disappearances’
According to documents recently declassified by the U.S. State Department, the Bush administration had tried to soften the draft language of an...
Global JusticeInternational Criminal Courts Investigates War Crimes
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo, announced today that in the next three years he plans to open...
NewsICC’s President Song Comes to Washington
It was a pleasure today to meet Sang-Hyun Song, the new President of the International Criminal Court who was on his first...