22 June 2012 – At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), some $513 billion in funding has been committed by governments, the private sector, civil society and other groups to achieve a sustainable future.
“From the very beginning we have said that Rio+20 is about implementation and concrete action,” said Rio+20's Secretary-General, Sha Zukang, at a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, today. “The commitments that we share with you today demonstrate that governments, the UN systems, and the nine major groups are committed and serious about implementation.”
A wide range of actions have also been pledged during Rio+20. These include planting 100 million trees, empowering 5,000 women entrepreneurs in green economy businesses in Africa, and recycling 800,000 tons of polyvinyl chloride (commonly known as PVC) – one of the most widely used plastics – per year.
26 jun 2012
Call for Submissions: Sustainable Development and International Investment Law: Bridging the Divide
The Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment has issued a call for submissions for papers on the topic "Sustainable Development and International Investment Law: Bridging the Divide" for publication in the Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy. Here's the call:
Sustainable Development and International Investment Law: Bridging the Divide
We have seen a significant increase over the past decade in the number of investment treaties and treaty-based disputes, each contributing to the vast and evolving international investment regime, and each with important implications for sustainable development.
Sustainable Development and International Investment Law: Bridging the Divide
We have seen a significant increase over the past decade in the number of investment treaties and treaty-based disputes, each contributing to the vast and evolving international investment regime, and each with important implications for sustainable development.
Knight & Egerton: The Routledge Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect
W. Andy Knight (Univ. of Alberta - Political Science) & Frazer Egerton (Government of Nova Scotia) have published The Routledge Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect (Routledge 2012). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:
This Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the Responsibility to Protect norm in world politics, which aims to end mass atrocities against civilians. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is amongst the most significant norms in global politics. As the authoritative guide to R2P, this edited volume gathers together the most respected and insightful voices to address key issues related to this emerging norm.
Source: International Law Reporter
This Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the Responsibility to Protect norm in world politics, which aims to end mass atrocities against civilians. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is amongst the most significant norms in global politics. As the authoritative guide to R2P, this edited volume gathers together the most respected and insightful voices to address key issues related to this emerging norm.
Source: International Law Reporter
25 jun 2012
UNDP Rule of Law Annual Global Report 2011
UNDP’s 2011 Annual Report showcases the results achieved by UNDP’s Global Programme for Strengthening the Rule of Law in Crisis-affected and Fragile Situations in 37 crisis-affected countries.
Highlights
- In Somalia, UNDP has facilitated the recruitment of more than 14,000 police officers and the creation of mobile courts, legal aid centres and sexual assault referral centres. This has increased the ability of people to access the formal justice system.
- In Afghanistan, UNDP supports the remuneration of the 137,000 strong Afghan National Police force and pioneered the development of the force’s first community security initiatives.
- In Colombia, support to the development of a comprehensive national framework for victims’ rights is set to provide reparations for approximately 400,000 victims by 2014. By April 2012, 75,000 victims had already been provided with compensation.
19 jun 2012
Ceremony for the solemn undertaking of the ICC Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda
Today, 15 June 2012, Fatou Bensouda
made her solemn undertaking and formally took office as the Prosecutor of the
International Criminal Court (ICC) during a ceremony held at the seat of the
Court in The Hague. Ms Bensouda (the Gambia) was elected at the latest session
of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (ASP) in December 2011
for a nine-year term.
In accordance with article 45 of the
Rome Statute, founding treaty of the ICC, the ceremony was held in open court.
The ceremony was presided over by ICC President Sang-Hyun Song. Referring to Ms
Bensouda’s wealth of prosecutorial experience and staunch international
support, ICC President Song stated, “I am confident that her strong independent
voice, legal expertise and genuine concern for human rights issues will
contribute greatly to the continued fight against impunity”.
About the Rio+20 Conference, 20-22 June 2012
At the Rio+20 Conference, world
leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private
sector, NGOs and other groups, will come together to shape how we can reduce
poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever
more crowded planet to get to the future we want.
The United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development (UNCSD) is being organized in pursuance of General
Assembly Resolution 64/236 (A/RES/64/236), and will take place in Brazil on
20-22 June 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de Janeiro, and the
10th anniversary of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in
Johannesburg.
12 jun 2012
Corte Constitucional avala ingreso de Colombia a la OCDE
La Corte Constitucional declaró exequible la Ley 1479 del 2011, que aprobó el acuerdo para la vinculación de Colombia como miembro del Centro de Desarrollo de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE) y la decisión que así lo estableció.
La Ley 1479 cumplió en debida forma las etapas, el procedimiento y los requisitos constitucionales y legales exigidos para su expedición, advirtió la Corte.
En cuanto a su contenido, la corporación indicó que no afecta la soberanía nacional, pues la norma fue convenida libremente, respetando los principios del Derecho Internacional.
La Ley 1479 cumplió en debida forma las etapas, el procedimiento y los requisitos constitucionales y legales exigidos para su expedición, advirtió la Corte.
En cuanto a su contenido, la corporación indicó que no afecta la soberanía nacional, pues la norma fue convenida libremente, respetando los principios del Derecho Internacional.
Día mundial contra el trabajo infantil - Tema de 2012: Derechos humanos y justicia social... erradiquemos el trabajo infantil
La Conferencia de Ámsterdam de 1997 sobre la lucha contra las formas más intolerables del trabajo infantil y la Conferencia Internacional de Oslo sobre el Trabajo Infantil de 1997, señalaron la atención a la urgente necesidad de una acción mundial concertada para poner fin al trabajo infantil, al instar a que se amplíe la recopilación de información, estadísticas e investigación empírica que ayudaría a informar esta acción.
Doctor Humberto Sierra Porto nuevo juez de la Corte Interamericana
El Doctor Humberto Sierra Porto profesor de la Universidad Externado de
Colombia fue nombrado como nuevo juez de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos
Humanos. El Doctor Humberto Sierra es Investigador del Centro de Estudios y
Constitucionales Carlos Restrepo Piedrahita y actualmente es Magistrado de la
Corte Constitucional colombiana. Fue el ponente de la Sentencia C- 141 de 2010 que declaró inconstitucional el
referendo reeleccionista para una segunda vez del Presidente de la
República. Aquí la biografía del Dr.
Sierra en la página del Instituto. Aquí en la página de la
Corte Constitucional. La noticia en el Espectador aquí. Noticia de El Tiempo aquí.
Fuente: Iureamicorum
Fuente: Iureamicorum
Arato: Constitutional Transformation in the ECtHR: Strasbourg's Expansive Recourse to External Rules of International Law
Julian Arato (New York Univ. - Law) has posted Constitutional Transformation in the ECtHR: Strasbourg's Expansive Recourse to External Rules of International Law (Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Vol. 37, no. 2, p. 348). Here's the abstract:
The European Court of Human Rights is a constituted judicial body, established by international treaty among the member States of the Council of Europe. Yet it can hardly be described as a static creature of the Parties.
The Court has undergone dramatic constitutional change since its inception, resulting in an organization significantly more autonomous, independent, and robust in its maturity. Certain important changes have been achieved through formal amendment by the Parties. At the same time, however, the constitution of the ECtHR has undergone a quieter, informal kind of development – through the Court’s own practice in the discharge of its normal functions. Change of this latter type may be called constitutional transformation, by contrast to formal constitutional amendment. This paper is about the transformative effect of the Court’s approach to the interpretation of its constituent instrument, the ECHR. More specifically, the focus is on its approach to one particular technique of interpretation, codified at VCLT 31(3)(c) (providing for the consideration of external sources of international law). On the one hand, as is often recognized, the Court relies on the technique to ground a dramatic and evolutive mode of treaty interpretation – expanding the substantive rights of the Convention in light of sources external to it. Yet on the other hand, I want to suggest, the Court gives 31(3)(c) itself an astonishingly broad construction, to justify considering an extraordinary array of external sources – thereby expanding its own material competence to develop the Convention on the basis of developments outside of the Convention. This latter dimension of the Court’s interpretive approach, I argue, has brought about a genuine constitutional transformation.
Source: International Law Reporter
The European Court of Human Rights is a constituted judicial body, established by international treaty among the member States of the Council of Europe. Yet it can hardly be described as a static creature of the Parties.
The Court has undergone dramatic constitutional change since its inception, resulting in an organization significantly more autonomous, independent, and robust in its maturity. Certain important changes have been achieved through formal amendment by the Parties. At the same time, however, the constitution of the ECtHR has undergone a quieter, informal kind of development – through the Court’s own practice in the discharge of its normal functions. Change of this latter type may be called constitutional transformation, by contrast to formal constitutional amendment. This paper is about the transformative effect of the Court’s approach to the interpretation of its constituent instrument, the ECHR. More specifically, the focus is on its approach to one particular technique of interpretation, codified at VCLT 31(3)(c) (providing for the consideration of external sources of international law). On the one hand, as is often recognized, the Court relies on the technique to ground a dramatic and evolutive mode of treaty interpretation – expanding the substantive rights of the Convention in light of sources external to it. Yet on the other hand, I want to suggest, the Court gives 31(3)(c) itself an astonishingly broad construction, to justify considering an extraordinary array of external sources – thereby expanding its own material competence to develop the Convention on the basis of developments outside of the Convention. This latter dimension of the Court’s interpretive approach, I argue, has brought about a genuine constitutional transformation.
Source: International Law Reporter
5 jun 2012
Nuevo ente de DDHH no deslegitima a CIDH, dice secretaria de Unasur
La eventual creación de un nuevo organismo suramericano sobre
derechos humanos no busca destruir lo avanzado, aseguró la Secretaria de
la UNASUR, la colombiana María Emma Mejía.
Una propuesta ecuatoriana para crear la instancia fue analizada durante dos días en una cita en Quito de los representantes de los países miembros de la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas, Unasur, y se definirá en noviembre, en una cumbre presidencial del organismo.
Una propuesta ecuatoriana para crear la instancia fue analizada durante dos días en una cita en Quito de los representantes de los países miembros de la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas, Unasur, y se definirá en noviembre, en una cumbre presidencial del organismo.
Call for Papers: Regionalism and Feminism: How regionalism impacts on women's lives
The Feminism and International Law Interest Group of the European Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for a workshop as part of the 5th ESIL Biennial Conference. Here's the call:
Feminism and International Law Interest Group
Call for Papers
5th ESIL Biennial Conference: Interest Group Workshops
13th September 2012, Valencia Spain
Feminism and International Law Interest Group
Call for Papers
5th ESIL Biennial Conference: Interest Group Workshops
13th September 2012, Valencia Spain
Call for Papers: The Political Economy of International Organizations
A call for papers has been issued for the 6th Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International Organizations, to take place February 7–9, 2013, at the Universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg. Here's the call:
Call for papers:
6th Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International Organizations
February 7-9, 2013, Universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg, Germany
Call for papers:
6th Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International Organizations
February 7-9, 2013, Universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg, Germany
Sesión del Comité de los Derechos del Niño y Conferencia Internacional del Trabajo
El Comité de los Derechos del Niño se encuentra por su 60ta sesión del 29 de mayo al 15 de junio 2012, acá las informaciones: agendas, programa de trabajo, informe sobre estados.
Del 30 de mayo al 14 de junio también se desarrolla la 101.a reunión de la Conferencia Internacional del Trabajo. Además de los puntos inscritos de oficio, los temas son: elaboración de una recomendación autónoma sobre el Piso de Protección Social, la crisis del empleo de los jóvenes, principios y derechos fundamentales en el trabajo, y Myanmar. Acá se encuentra toda la información.
Del 30 de mayo al 14 de junio también se desarrolla la 101.a reunión de la Conferencia Internacional del Trabajo. Además de los puntos inscritos de oficio, los temas son: elaboración de una recomendación autónoma sobre el Piso de Protección Social, la crisis del empleo de los jóvenes, principios y derechos fundamentales en el trabajo, y Myanmar. Acá se encuentra toda la información.
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