Topic 1

Thirty years ago this month, a Cuban airliner blew up in mid-air, killing all 73 people aboard.

INTRODUCTION

On July 02, 2006, the eleven judges[1] of the newly constituted African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights were sworn in before African leaders attending a summit meeting in Banjul, The Gambia.

The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 was adopted by the 94th International Labour Conference at a maritime session in Geneva in February 2006.

Introduction

The recent conflict in Lebanon and Northern Israel, occurring between a state and a non-state armed opposition group on the territory of a state that has not itself taken up arms, raises distinct challenges for interpretation of international law related to armed conflict.

Introduction

On June 29, 2006, the United Nations Human Rights Council[1] adopted the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.[2] This decision comes as a result of more than twenty years of work by the United Nations system on that subject.

On July 4 and 5, 2006, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) test-fired seven unarmed missiles over the Sea of Japan.  One of them was a long-range missile, the Taepodong 2, which exploded and fell into the sea before it could complete its test flight.  If it had not gone down prematurely it is possible that it would have entered the airspace of Japan.

I. Introduction