PAC 31 – The Radicalism of the Nobel Diplomacy The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo

Dec 15, 2010 | Human rights, Nobel Peace Prize, Non-state diplomacy, Passage au crible (English), Peace

By Josepha Laroche
Translation: Davina Durgana
Passage au crible n°31
This past 10th of December, during the award ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize, the winner – Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo – was absent because he is currently in his country serving a prison sentence of eleven years…

PAC 29 – The Small Steps of the ICC against Impunity The Arrest in France of a Presumed War Criminal, October 11th, 2010

Nov 12, 2010 | Human rights, International Justice, Passage au crible (English), Public international law

By Yves Poirmeur
Translation: Davina Durgana
Passage au crible n°29
On October 11th, 2010 French authorities arrested Callixte Mbarushimana, Executive Secretary of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda- Combatant forces Abacunguzi, endorsed by an arrest warrant..

PAC 6 – A Child Labour, an Instance of North-South Violence 20th Anniversary of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child

Nov 29, 2009 | Development, Human rights, North-South, Passage au crible (English)

By Josepha Laroche
Passage au crible n°6
The international Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted on November 20, 1989 and has since been ratified by all the countries of the world excepting the United States and Somalia. This text recognizes “the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to…