United Nations: Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons
(Oct. 5, 2017) On July 7, 2017, the United Nations Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, Leading Towards Their Total Elimination, meeting in New York,...
View ArticleUnited Nations: Rights Office Concerned About Arrests of LGBT Individuals
(Oct. 31, 2017) On October 13, 2017, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) held a press briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, expressing concern about the arrests of...
View ArticleMexico: Government and OHCHR Sign Agreement on Human Rights Training for...
(May 31, 2019) On April 9, 2019, the Mexican government announced that it had reached an agreement with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) whereby Mexico’s National Guard will...
View ArticleUnited Nations: Agencies Urge Members Countries to Allow Crew Changes by...
(Sept. 30, 2020) On September 11, 2020, a number of United Nations (UN) agencies issued a joint statement asking all UN member countries to take urgent measures in order to allow crew changes of...
View ArticleUnited Nations: UN Convention on International Settlement Agreements...
(Oct. 13, 2020) Last month the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (the Singapore Convention on Mediation) entered into force. The Singapore...
View ArticleUnited States: Federal Appellate Court Affirms Conviction of International...
(Dec. 2, 2020) On November 13, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the conviction and sentence of Mahyoub Molhi Mohamed Houtar for international parental kidnapping under...
View ArticleInternational: United Nations Welcomes Loosening of Sanctions in Gulf Region
(Feb. 17, 2021) On January 5, 2021, United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General António Guterres issued a statement welcoming the news that Saudi Arabia had lifted the economic and political sanctions it...
View ArticleInternational: New ICSID Caseload Statistics Reveal Trends in Arbitral...
(Feb. 22, 2021) On January 28, 2021, the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) published its caseload statistics for the first six months of 2020 (FY2020). Some had...
View ArticleInternational: International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Confirms...
(Feb. 23, 2021) On January 28, 2021, in its Judgment on Preliminary Objections in the Dispute Concerning Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary between Mauritius and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean,...
View ArticleBahrain: Crown Prince Issues Decree to Suppress Financing of Terrorism
(Mar. 5, 2021) On February 19, 2020, the crown prince and prime minister of Bahrain, Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, issued Decree No. 12 of 2021 on the National Terrorism Lists. The decree is...
View ArticleInternational: ILO Report on World Employment Trends Highlights Importance of...
(June 10, 2021) On June 2, 2021, the International Labour Organization (ILO) published the World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2021 report (WESO Trends report), which highlights the importance...
View ArticleInternational: Genocide Conviction Against Ratko Mladic Upheld
(June 15, 2021) On June 8, 2021, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) upheld the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia’s (ICTY’s) 2017 judgment...
View ArticleInternational: Record Number of People Forcibly Displaced in 2020
(June 28, 2021) According to the recently published United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) report Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2020, the total number of people forcibly...
View ArticleInternational: United Nations' World Drug Report Highlights Increase in Drug...
On June 24, 2021, the United Nations (U.N.) Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published its annual World Drug Report, which found that the number of people using drugs (narcotics and psychotropic...
View ArticleInternational: UNESCO Calls for Preservation of Afghanistan's Cultural...
On August 19, 2021, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) made a statement that “calls for the preservation of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage in its diversity,...
View ArticleInternational: Pacific Islands Forum Declares Fixed Maritime Zones in...
On August 6, 2021, the Pacific Islands Forum declared that its 18 member countries will notify their maritime zones to the secretary-general of the United Nations, which will then be permanent in...
View ArticleUnited States: State Department Signals Intent to Sign International...
On March 4, 2023, over 190 countries, including the United States, agreed to an international agreement about marine protected areas in international waters. The agreement is the product of years of...
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