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The Kyoto Protocol Enters into Force

More than seven years after its adoption, the Kyoto Protocol finally entered into force on February 16, 2005, thus marking the beginning of a new era in global efforts to combat climate change. [1] While international agreement for action on global warming was first reached in the Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, this failed to set clear targets for the abatement of greenhouse gas emissions. [2] In adopting the Kyoto Protocol, however, the international community agreed on quantified emission limitation and reduction obligations.
 
Topic: 
Topic 1
Volume: 
9
Issue: 
8
Author: 
Chester Brown
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Environment

Nuclear Bunker-Busters and Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty

The Bush administration's proposed budget for FY 2006 contains appropriation lines for resuming research on the nuclear bunker-buster. This proposal is likely to renew the heated debate within the United States over the role and shape of U.S. nuclear forces. It also raises an important legal issue: does this research cause the United States to run afoul of its disarmament obligations under Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)?
 
Topic: 
Topic 1
Volume: 
9
Issue: 
7
Author: 
Andrew J. Grotto
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Arms Control and Non-proliferation
North America

Ontario Court of Appeal Upholds NAFTA Chapter 11 Award

On January 11, 2005, the Ontario Court of Appeal issued a judgment in the case involving the United Mexican States (Mexico) and Marvin Feldman Karpa (Feldman).[1]Justice Robert Armstrong of the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld Justice Dan Chilcott's decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.[2] Justice Armstrong accepted Justice Chilcott's finding that the NAFTA Tribunal's US$1.6 million ruling against Mexico[3] should be given a high degree of deference and that Mexico had not shown any basis upon which to interfere with the arbitration award.
 
Topic: 
Topic 1
Volume: 
9
Issue: 
6
Author: 
Rajeev Sharma and Adam Goodman
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The Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Drones) in United Nations Peacekeeping: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Inspired by the successes of unmanned drone (unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs) surveillance of western countries, the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations towards the end of 2012 announced that it intended to actually begin using such technology in peacekeeping operations.[1] Subsequently, in January 2013, the UN announced that it would deploy UAVs for surveillance in the Kivu provinces (North and South) of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) “to improve awareness and promote deterrence to those who move ar

Topic: 
Topic 1
Volume: 
18
Issue: 
13
Author: 
Kasaija Phillip Apuuli
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Africa
Conflict Prevention and Mitigation / Post Conflict Reconstruction
Foreign Policy and International Law
Global
International Organizations
Terrorism
Use of Force, and International Humanitarian Law
Western and Central Europe

The Slow Demise of Impunity in Argentina and Chile

A series of extraordinary and closely inter-related judicial and non-judicial developments have unfolded in Chile and Argentina during the course of the past 12 months. Some thirty years since State-orchestrated civilian repression led to the disappearance, torture and death of thousands of individuals in both countries, leaving profound and still unhealed societal scars, the heretofore seemingly entrenched impunity for those offenses is only now being eroded.    
 
Argentina
 
Topic: 
Topic 1
Volume: 
9
Issue: 
1
Author: 
Peter A. Barcroft
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Terrorism