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Law enforcement the fact of the matter on january 6th, did an exemplary job of protecting members of congress but their leadership, congressional leadership utterly failed those line officers as well as their mission so now they want to expand their mission, but they ought to focus on what they failed to do on january 6th and focus on the mission of in the capital, protecting members of congress to be a state responsibility. we dont need another federal agency doing what is outrageously being do...

"Iremos hasta las últimas consecuencias": alcaldesa de Bogotá Claudia López sobre jóvenes asesinados en manifestaciones

Suscribir Concejo de Bogotá presenta informe a la CIDH que aborda temas que la Alcaldía no mencionó. El Comité de Derechos Humanos del Concejo de Bogotá presentó a la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) un informe sobre la situación de derechos humanos en la capital del país durante el paro nacional, De acuerdo con lo expuesto, el documento busca mostrar al menos tres vulneraciones de presuntas violaciones de los derechos humanos a manos de agentes del Estado, no report...

Date and Time: 4/19/21, 9:13 AM Location: Bald Hills area of Humboldt County Direct Protection Area Responsibility: State Responsibility (CAL FIRE) Type of Incident: Vegetation Fire Size of Incident: Two fires, approximately one acre and two acres respectively Fire Containment: 50% Fire Control Resources Committed: 1 Helicopter, 5 Fire Engines, 2 Fire Crews, 1 Bulldozer, 4 Water Tenders Additional Information: Forward progress has been stopped on one fire with 0% containment on second fire cu...

Articles & Testimony Iran-backed armed groups hate being exposed as criminals in the eyes of a populace that cares deeply about rule of law, so they have turned Iraq’s legal sector into a battlespace. Iraq’s Iranian-backed militias, self-styled as  al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya (“the Islamic Resistance”), are no strangers to legal violations.  Muqawama affiliates frequently target and kill journalists and protesters, and militia-run “secret” prisons have become a concern for activ...

France, Cyber Operations and Sovereignty: The ‘Purist’ Approach to Sovereignty and Contradictory State Practice French President Emmanuel Macron speaks at an event in 2017. (Jaques Pacquier, https://flic.kr/p/2frCTie; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) In the context of cyber operations, there is a debate between those who consider sovereignty to be an underlying principle of international law from which other primary rules emanate, and those who consider it to be a pr...

Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) This is the third event in the In Focus Series: “A Feminist EU in the World?” In this event we zoom in on the EU’s policies on Climate Justice and climate change from an (intersectional) feminist perspective. Annica Kronsell, Andrew Telford, and Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh will explore the opportunities and pitfalls of EU climate change policies if carried out through a lens of Feminist Foreign Policy. The roundtable discussion will focus in particular on r...

Volunteerism for a positive cause is a far cry from vigilantism, writes Ajit Ranade The state’s functions and obligations are critical in the areas of law and order. For instance, as the saying goes, “You cannot take the law into your own hands”. Nor can the state enlist private citizens to discharge functions that relate to enforcing law and order. This is a very dicey proposition. In his inaugural address as the 35th President of the United States America on January 20, 1961, ...

Introduction In the ongoing dispute between Ecuador and US energy multinational Chevron Corporation, The Hague District Court was again called upon to consider whether an award issued pursuant to the US-Ecuador bilateral investment treaty could be set aside. In 2006 and 2013 Ecuador had also attempted to set aside US-Ecuador investment treaty awards. Both proceedings were conducted up to the Supreme Court and resulted in the awards being upheld.(1) At first glance, the award rendered is quite r...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace January 26, 2021 Source: Getty Summary:  When combating influence operations, focusing on discouraging misleading digital market techniques is a more versatile, effective strategy than focusing on whether foreign or domestic actors are involved. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! About the Project The Lines in the Sand paper series, produced by Carnegie’s Partnership on Countering Influence Operations...