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On January 9

January 09, 2009 05:00

On this day in ...... 1961, Emily Greene Balch died at a nursing home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 94 years + 1 day after she'd been born into an affluent family in Boston. Her New York Times obituary succinctly told the life story of this American academic/activist/social worker/economist: Miss...

Guest Blogger: Noëlle Quénivet

January 08, 2009 16:31

It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure today to welcome Dr. Noëlle Quénivet (right) as a guest blogger.Noëlle is a Senior Lecturer at the Bristol Law School of the University of the West of England in Bristol, where she teaches Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law, and International Cr...

On January 8

January 08, 2009 11:01

On this day in ...... 1918, before a joint session of Congress, President Woodrow Wilson outlined what, in his view, were the "terms upon which Germany may obtain peace" and thus bring World War I to an end. The New York Times' story on the speech is instructive: though it does discuss some of the...

On January 7

January 07, 2009 11:01

On this day in ...... 1844 (165 years ago today), a daughter, Bernadette Soubirous (right), was born into a poor millers' family at Lourdes, in the Hautes-Pyrénées of France. While working as a shepherdess, at age 12, she reported seeing the 1st of what would be more than a dozen visions of the V...

'Nuff said

January 06, 2009 11:02

More recently, President Bush vetoed a law that would require the CIA and all the intelligence services to abide by the same rules on torture as contained in the U.S. Army Field Manual.The president says the rules are too restrictive, implying that the use of some forms of torture just could help...