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Efforts to Achieve Progress on Transnational Corruption Continues (VIA) |
Several developments to ratify multilateral conventions and prosecute transnational bribery cases indicate steady progress on transnational corruption continues.
Already 20 countries have ratified... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
7 |
2000-07-01 |
World |
Corruption |
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Israel Holds That 19-Year Old Israeli Can Be Extradited to Canada for Murder (IVA) |
On April 10, 2000, an Israeli court ruled that Daniel Weiz, a 19-year-old Israeli soldier, can be extradited to Canada on murder charges.
Mr. Weiz is charged, along with two Canadian teenagers, for... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Canada, Israel |
Extradition, Murder |
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Books (XVA) |
The Prosecutor of a Permanent International Criminal Court ( Louise Arbour/Albin Eser/Kai Ambos/Andrew Sanders,eds.), International Workshop in co-operation with the Office of the Prosecutor the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
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Swiss and Luxembourg Freeze More Nigerian (Abacha) Assets (VA) |
On May 8, 2000, the media reported Swiss investigators have found and frozen $630 million in Luxembourg bank accounts connected with the sons of Sani Abacha, former Nigerian head of state.... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Switzerland, Luxembourg |
Asset Forfeiture |
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Articles (XVB) |
1. Theft of Cultural Property
M. Lippman, Art and Ideology in the Third Reich: The Protection of Cultural Property and the Humanitarian Law of War, 17 Dick. J. Int’l L. 1-97 (1998).
M.I. Turner,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
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U.S. Urges Governments to Support Immunity Proposal (VIA) |
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has sent a letter to Foreign
Ministers in about 60 countries, urging support for the U.S. proposal for the proposed
International Criminal Court (ICC). The... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
World, United States |
International Courts |
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Documents (XVC) |
1. Environment
General Accounting Office, U.S.-Mexico Border: Despite Some Progress, Environmental Infrastructure Challenges Remain, GAO/NSIAD-00-26, Mar. 3, 2000, 63 pp.
2. Human Rights
U.K. Bow... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
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Belgium Opens Investigation into Alleged Human Rights Violations by Former |
On March 2nd 2000, Belgian investigating magistrate Damien Vandermeersch announced his intention to investigate a complaint against former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani... |
Tom L.W. Scheirs |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Belgium, Iran |
Human Rights, Torture |
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Council of Europe Prepares Convention on International Cooperation against (VIIIA) |
On April 24, 2000, the Council of Europe published a preliminary draft of the world’s first legally binding convention on international cooperation against cybercrime.
On April 10, 2000,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Europe |
Cybercrime |
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U.S. House Judiciary Approves Internet Gambling Prohibition Act (VIIIB) |
On April 6, 2000, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee passed by a 21-8 vote the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act, a bill that would simultaneously prohibit Internet gambling generally while expanding... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
United States |
Cybercrime |
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“Love Bug” Case Shows Gaps in International Cooperation on Cybercrime(VIIIC) |
On May 3, 2000, a virus occurred that crippled millions of computers worldwide and focused attention on the need to strengthen international cooperation and harmonization of law against cybercrime.... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
World |
Cybercrime |
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Work on International Conventions Continues(IXA) |
Work on the principal conventions against transnational bribery, those of the OECD, the Organization of American States, and the Council of Europe, is continuing. Signatory countries are working to... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
World |
Bribery |
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Senate Foreign Relations Urged to Ratify Inter-American Convention Against Corruption (IXB) |
On May 2, 2000, all four persons testified in support of U.S. ratification of and leadership in the implementation of the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption.
Alan Larson, Under Secretary... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
United States |
Corruption, Bribery |
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G-7 Endorses International Money Laundering and Tax Enforcement Efforts of International Organizations (XA) |
On April 15, 2000, at the conclusion of its meetings in Washington, Finance Ministers of the G-7 countries, the Central Bank Governors of Canada, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
World |
International Organizations |
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Rwandan President Accused of Crimes Against Humanity (XIA) |
On 30th March 2000, Bernard Ntuyahaga brought a complaint against Rwandan president ad interim Paul Kagame before a Belgian investigating magistrate. The 38-page complaint contains allegations of... |
Tom L.W. Scheirs |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Belgium, Rwanda |
Human Rights, Terrorism |
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Antigua Agrees to Measures of UN Offshore Forum and Urges Removal of Warnings (IA) |
On April 17, 2000, the media announced that the Government of Antigua and Barbuda had signed an anti-money laundering agreement with the United Nations that requires it to implement various standards... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
United States, United Kingdom, Antigua & Barbuda |
Money Laundering, Fraud |
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Rwanda Tribunal (XIB) |
On March 24, 2000, Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, a 76-year-old former Pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Mugonero, Kibuye Prefecture, was transferred to the UN Detention Facility in Arusha. On... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Rwanda |
Law of War, Genocide |
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European Parliament Approves Decision on Anti-Money Laundering |
On April 12, 2000, the European Parliament approved legislation in the form of a decision to strengthen the 1991 EU directive on anti-money laundering.
The European Parliament adopted a dozen... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Europe |
Money Laundering |
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War Crimes of the Former Yugoslav (XIC) |
On April 14, 2000, the Croatian Parliament passed a declaration, promising that Croatia will cooperate fully with the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
The... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Balkans |
United Nations, War Crimes |
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U.S. and El Salvador Conclude Agreement for Airbase for Anti-Narcotics Flights (IIA) |
On March 31, 2000, Steve Lucas, spokesman for the U.S. military’s Miami-based Southern Command, announced the U.S. Department of State and the Salvadoran Government concluded an agreement, allowing... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
United States, El Salvador |
Drugs & Trafficking |
