security council

Insight into ICC endeavor against aggression

December 24, 2008 11:02

With a year to go before the 1st review conference for the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, a panel is hard at work on one of the ICC’s knottier problems – how to render the crime of aggression an offense fully within the jurisdiction of the permanent international cou...

On December 4

December 04, 2008 11:01

On this day in ...... 1961, the British National Health Service made The Pill available to all women. But concern about the advisability of use of this form of contraception lingered, as indicated by this BBC reports on comments by Sir Charles Dodds, a leading physician:He compared a woman's body...

Judicial review for Europe's implementation of Security Council's terrorism sanctions regime

November 05, 2008 11:02

Check out the new ASIL Insight by Dr. Miša Zgonec-Rožej, analyzing a recent decision in which the European Court of Justice set aside the freezing of funds said to be linked to terrorism.In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.N. Security Council set up a regime by which m...

On October 28

October 28, 2008 10:01

On this day in ...... 1983 (25 years ago today), the United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution "'deeply deploring' ... as a 'flagrant violation of international law,'" the invasion that the United States had led into Grenada. The United States -- which had intervened militarily after...

Security Council Resolves to Fight (Some) Piracy

Naomi Norberg
October 26, 2008 10:28

As I mentioned in an earlier post about a French ship's run in with pirates in the Gulf of Aden, France asked the Security Council (right) for action, particularly in the form of “regular international surveillance” and changing the definition of "piracy" in the Law of the Sea Treaty to allow sta...