Posted on April 18th, 2008 by Marian Houk
This comment, giving links to some very interesting articles about the UN, the U.S., and Rwanda, came in this week from johnjohn — it was attached to one of our posts from 2007 here , and it reads:
“re: Louise Arbour & War crimes (hers),
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041708D.shtml”
So, turning to the link mentioned, here [...]
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Filed under: International Tribunals, Rwanda, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on March 29th, 2008 by Marian Houk
In advance of the Arab League Summit Meeting — which is being attended by very few heads of state or government — that opened Saturday in Damascus, the UN rushed through several steps in its preparation for the formation of the tribunal to judge those responsible for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, International Tribunals, Lebanon, Syria, The Hague, UN Secretary-General
Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Marian Houk
… [as Aletheia Kallos put it to me in an exchange of emails overnight] will the United Nations in the form of UNMEE (UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea) which was created to monitor and guarantee the Temporary Security Zone which was itself created to insure the separation of forces pending the demarcation also to [...]
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Filed under: Eritrea, Ethiopia, International Tribunals, UN Peacekeeping, United Nations
Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by Marian Houk
A spokesperson for UNSG BAN Ki-Moon announced that a headquarters agreement was signed on Friday to establish the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the Netherlands.
The SG said, in the statement issued by the spokesperson, that “The Agreement will now be submitted to the Parliament of the Netherlands for ratification. In the meantime, the United Nations [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, International Tribunals, Lebanon, The Hague, UN Security Council
Posted on September 16th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The UN Spokesperson told journalists at UNHQ/NY on Friday that “The Security Council extended the terms of the current prosecutors for the two international tribunals in back-to-back formal meetings today. By a unanimous vote, the Council extended Hassan Jallow’s term as Prosecutor for the Rwanda Tribunal by four years. Carla Del Ponte, the [...]
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Filed under: Former Yugoslavia, International Tribunals, Kofi Annan, Rwanda, UN Security Council
Posted on August 25th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Was it for reasons of economy of scale that the UN decided to base the Hariri trial chambers in the Hague, in the Netherlands? That would put it near the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the International Criminal Court — not to mention the venerable International Court of Justice? Only [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, International Court of Justice - ICJ, International Law, International Tribunals, Lebanon
Posted on April 29th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The April issue of Le Monde diplomatique carries an incisive critique of the proposed [it will happen] international tribunal to find and try the killers of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Valentine’s Day 2005 — and some subsequent victims.
The Le Monde diplomatique article is written by two professors and a lawyer: Geraud de [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Hariri Commission of Inquiry, International Law, International Tribunals, Lebanon, UN Security Council
Posted on March 22nd, 2007 by Marian Houk
The Associated Press’ indefatigable Edith M. Lederer is reporting that “The chief investigator probing the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri on Wednesday backed the creation of an international tribunal to prosecute the alleged perpetrators. Belgian prosecutor Serge Brammertz told reporters after briefing the Security Council on his latest report that a [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, International Tribunals, Lebanon, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
Posted on March 8th, 2007 by Marian Houk
…and the UN goes all-out in its lip-service to the idea of promoting women’s equality, still without being able to practice it, within its own Secretariat.
The “public information” units of every UN body and Agency churn out the press releases. Roundtable discussions are organized in every major UN office, with smiling women and pro-forma [...]
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Filed under: Global Economy, Human Rights, International Tribunals, Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment
Posted on February 28th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Do you believe Angelina Jolie wrote this? It’s simply not credible. One can only imagine how many UN people have drafted this, vetted it, passed it up and down the line, suggesting changes, urging greater caution. Anyway, Angeline Jolie is in Chad, on the border of Sudan; Mia Farrow was in [...]
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Filed under: International Tribunals, Sudan - Darfur
