JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law offers his analysis of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Middle East conflict involving Israel, Hezbollah and Lebanon... Hezbollah's surprising television...
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Resolution 1701, August 11, 2006 [calling for a full cessation of hostilities, "in particular, the immediate cessation by Hizbollah of all attacks and the immediate cessation by Israel of all offensive military operations", and authorizing the establishment of an expanded...
Resolution on the grave situation of human rights in Lebanon caused by Israeli military operations, UN Human Rights Council, August 11, 2006 [condemning Israel for violating international human rights laws in the ongoing Middle East conflict involving Lebanon and calling...
UN Security Council unanimously adopts resolution to halt Middle East hostilities
The UN Security Council late Friday unanimously approved a resolution to end the current Middle East conflict , calling for Hezbollah to stop all attacks immediately and for Israel to cease all...
UN rights council rebukes Israel for human rights violations in Lebanon
The UN Human Rights Council in an emergency special session in Geneva Friday adopted by majority vote a resolution condemning Israel for violating international human rights laws in the ongoing Middle...
Federal judge rules Espionage Act constitutional in lobbyists leak case
US District Judge T.S. Ellis has upheld the constitutionality of the 1917 Espionage Act , refusing to dismiss charges against two former lobbyists with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee . Steven Rosen...
US v. Steven J. Rosen et al., United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, August 9, 2006 [upholding the constitutionality of the 1917 Espionage Act and refusing to dismiss charges against two former lobbyists with the American...
Letter dated 7 August from the UN Secretary-General to the President of the Security Council, August 7, 2006 . Excerpt:The attack on...
UK MP quits defense post, suggests US-Israel bomb transshipments illegal
UK Labour Party MP Jim Sheridan resigned Wednesday from his government position as Parliamentary Private Secretary of the Defense Team, citing the Blair administration's reluctance to demand an immediate end to the ongoing Middle East conflict [JURIST...
Ethiopia ratifies nuclear test-ban treaty as US, China, Iran and Israel remain holdouts
Ethiopia on Tuesday submitted its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) to the UN Secretary-General. The CTBT bans any nuclear explosion, for testing purposes or otherwise, and was...