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International Law

'Unacknowledged Deaths': Libyan Civilian Casualties in NATO’s Air Campaign

by PN | Blog entry | 14 May, 2012

Review of Human Rights Watch's report 'Unacknowledged Deaths: Civilian Casualties in NATO’s Air Campaign in Libya', published May 14, 2012.

Ban bomb book

by Brian Larkin | News | March 2011

A new book, Trident and International Law: Scotland’s Obligations was launched on 1 February. The launch took place at the Scottish parliament and was hosted by Bill Kidd MSP. ...

ICAN disarm

by Tim Street | News | December 2009 - January 2010

At CND’s International Conference on 10 October, the UK branch of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN-UK) launched its new website (see end of article). ...

The struggle to subject war to law

by George Farebrother and Talyn Rahman | News | December 2009 - January 2010

The two-day (1-2 September) “Citizen and the Law of Armed Conflict” conference at Friends House, London, was organised by a coalition of organisations concerned with the need to develop be ...

Justice for Iraq, put Blair and Brown on trial

by Milan Rai and Emily Johns | Feature | July - August 2009

The declaration of a semi-closed, semi-open, no-blame inquiry into the Iraq war is said to be part of British prime minister Gordon Brown’s strategy to secure his position as leader of the ...

Mark Evans (ed), 'Providing a framework?'

by Trevor Curnow | Review | May 2006

Edinburgh University Press, 2005; ISBN 0 7486 2075 3; 250 pp; £16.99