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1 September 2011
Kenya and Uganda have agreed to deploy a joint security team to controversial Migingo Island. The two countries, which have been claiming ownership of the Island, will deploy 12 police officers each. The agreement was reached on Wednesday following a meeting in Kampala of the countries’ police chiefs. They agreed to adopt Standard Operating Procedures to guide joint security deployment on the island.
Source: http://allafrica.com
2 August 2011
‘Shared Responsibility in International Law: A Concept Paper’, a Research Paper by André Nollkaemper and Dov Jacobs laying out the foundations, scope and ambitions of the SHARES Project, has just been published here on the website. (more…)
27 July 2011
On 4 July 2011, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) permitted Greece to intervene as a non-party in the Jurisdictional Immunities of the State case (Germany v Italy) under Article 62 of the ICJ Statute. The case concerns a claim by Germany that Italian courts have failed to respect the sovereign immunity of Germany in domestic cases regarding serious violations of international humanitarian law by Germany during World War II. Germany also alleges that Italian courts have breached international law by enforcing the judgment of the Greek courts in the Distomo massacre case in Italy. The Greek request for intervention concerned this latter aspect of the case and was opposed by neither of the two parties. Dapo Akande posted a blog about this decision at EJIL:Talk!.
Link to the decision: (pdf)
25 July 2011
A new book on ‘Accountability for Collective Wrongdoing’, edited by Tracy Isaacs and Richard Vernon, has recently been published. More information about the book can be found here.
Source: http://www.cambridge.org
21 July 2011
The UK High Court today permitted Kenyan nationals to sue the government of the United Kingdom for acts of torture that occurred during the 1950s and 1960s in the former UK colony of Kenya. It therewith rejected the Government’s position that it could not be liable because the torture happened outside of the UK and that Kenya had its own legal colonial government, which was responsible for the camps. Although not yet decided on merits, the case already seems relevant to the question of sharing responsibility between local governments and States that act as colonial or mandated powers.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk