UK Imposes Further Sanctions on Myanmar s Top Military Thu 25th February 2021 | 07:00 PM
LONDON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 25th February, 2021) The UK has sanctioned another six military top-ranking officers of the Myanmararmy, including Commander in Chief General Min Aung Hlaing, for alleged human rights violations following the February 1 coup against President Win Myint and State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, the UKForeign Office announced on Thursday. Today s package of measures sends a clear message to the military regime in Myanmar that those responsible for human rights violations will be held to account, and the authorities must hand back control to a government elected by the people of Myanmar, foreign minister Dominic Raab said in a statement.
Filling Gaps in International Law
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The 2020 “Strategic Survey” recently published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) includes an essay, to which we contributed, entitled “Key International Legal Gaps: What Are They, and How Can They Be Closed?” The essay discusses gaps in five areas relating to international security use of force by states, operations against non-state actors, refugee protection, cybersecurity, and competition and conflict in outer space and suggests ways to address them. In introducing the essay, IISS Director-General John Chipman noted that “legal diplomacy should be conducted to embed carefully considered principles of international law and such diplomacy is needed across a number of fronts. … [The] legal environment cannot be allowed to ossify so much that
France has pointed out that to support the CAI, there must be a clear commitment by China to sustainable environmental development based on the Paris Agreement on climate change. In addition, China has yet to ratify the International Labour Organization convention that prohibits forced labor. According to Riester, this is a “red line” for France. French opposition to the agreement with China rests on the persecution of Uighurs in myriad forms. We cannot facilitate investment in China if we do not commit to abolishing forced labor,” Riester told the newspaper LeMonde, adding that other countries such as Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Germany share this position. “Trade agreements also serve as a lever to advance social issues, to fight against forced labor, in particular of Uighurs.”
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Two Princeton natives are the recipients of the Schwarzman Scholarship, designed to help prepare young, future leaders.
Ryan Zhang, a current senior at Harvard University from the Princeton area, and Ilene E, a senior at Princeton University, are now Schwarzman Scholars, one of the world’s most prestigious graduate fellowships located at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Zhang will graduate in 2021 from Harvard with a bachelor’s degree in Social Studies and minors in Data Science and Chinese.
He has worked at the U.K. Foreign Office, the Congressional Research Service, and alongside Nobel-winning economists at MIT’s Poverty Action Lab, according to his biography posted on the Schwarzman website.