The violence in Darfur is increasingly spilling over to neighboring Chad. Attacks in Chad have killed around 200 people over the past week. It is estimated that 12,000 Chadians have been displaced since November 4th. Survivors describe their attackers as Arab nomad tribes, both Chadian and Sudanese. Many victims were burned alive in their homes.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20641&Cr=sudan&Cr1=
On Tuesday, November 14, Radovan Stanković was sentenced by the Court of Bosnia Herzegovina to 16 years’ imprisonment for rapes and other crimes against humanity. The Court found that Stanković held a number of Bosnian women and girls captive so that Serb soldiers and other Serb men could sexually assault them. This case was the first to have been transferred to a national court from the International Criminal Tribunal of Yugoslavia as part of the Tribunal’s completion strategy where cases and expertise are transferred to the judiciaries in the region.
Meeting in San Marino, the Standing Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly resolved that non-citizens in Latvia be granted at least the same rights as other EU nationals living in there.
The resolution called for automatic naturalization of elderly or native non-citizens in addition to those who have made significant contributions to the Latvian state. It also held that minorities should also be able to use their language in dealing with administrative authoraties in areas in which they live in substanstial numbers.
More information is available at https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1065037.
In response to the strategic decision to expand the US-Indian partnership, both houses of Congress have been working to pass legislation that will facilitate the export of nuclear materials, equipment, and technology to India. Though the bill is now on the calendar several amendments are still pending.
House Bill H.R. 5682 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.+5682:
Senate Bill S.3709 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.+3709:
After a federal district court issued a confirmation judgment of an international arbitrator’s award under the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, the Third Circuit denied a motion made under Article V of the Convention to adjourn enforcement of the award, and altered the judgment to more closely adhere to the initial arbitration award.
See Admart v. Birch, 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 24460 (September 28, 2006).
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced a new agreement that will improve coordination between prosecutors in the United States and prosecutors in E.U. member states by allowing them to strategize together on cases and by enhancing the exchange of evidence.
See http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/2006/ag_speech_061106.html
