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Sadat on the Future of the ICC Leila N. Sadat (Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law) has posted Justice without Fear or Favour? The Uncertain Future of the International Criminal Court (Forthcoming in Alexander Heinze & Viviane E. Dittrich, eds., The Past, Present and Future of the International Criminal Court, Nuremberg Academy Series No. 5 (2021)) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: This essay traces the history of the International Criminal Court from its establishment in 1998 unt...

Ungewisse Zukunft für 62 Kinder, die beim Wettsteinplatz in die Tagesbetreuung gehen. Die Bürgergemeinde kündigt der Kita-Betreiberin Familycare die Räumlichkeiten. Die Mütter und Väter werfen der sozialen Institution vor, ein «einzigartiges Angebot» zu zerstören.

At a Small Maine School, Cursive Endures and Wins National Awards Although cursive handwriting “is a dying field,” as one teacher said, it has made a comeback in some schools, including one in Maine where two students won awards this month. Credit...Woodland Consolidated School Published May 24, 2021Updated May 25, 2021 For years, screens have replaced notebooks, keyboards have subbed in for pens and digital life has revolved around the printed word. But at a small school in Maine, cursive ...

Leaders in Africa and around the world give lip service to addressing underlying causes of terrorism, violent internal conflicts, criminal violence and other threats. In practice, they prioritize militarized responses that are not only abusive of human rights but also ineffective and counter-productive. African conflicts are most often seen in terms of simplistic narratives and applied to the entire continent. But each country is distinct. Most are at peace, afflicted not by war and warlords, b...

AfricaFocus Bulletins with Material on Politics and Human Rights April 19, 2021  Confronting Global Apartheid Demands Global Solidarity http://www.africafocus.org/docs21/ga2104.php     "The COVID-19 pandemic has both revealed and deepened structural inequalities around the world. Nearly every country has been hit by economic downturn, but the impacts are unevenly felt. Within and across countries, the people who have suffered most are those already disadvantaged by race, class, gender, o...

MIT’s second climate action plan, titled Fast Forward: MIT’s Climate Action Plan for the Decade, was announced by President L. Rafael Reif, Vice President for Research Maria Zuber, Associate Provost Richard Lester, Dean of Engineering Anantha Chandrakasan, and Executive Vice President and Treasurer Glen Shor in a May 12 email to MIT community members. The email writes that MIT is in a position “to set a standard of climate leadership” and that with the plan, it commits to “a coordinat...

A second wave of the virus and another exodus Updated: Updated: May 03, 2021 01:07 IST Several migrant labourers are packing their bags home due to job loss, uncertain future, and fear of getting infected Share Article AAA Migrant workers waiting for transport to return to their hometown in Bihar following the lockdown, in Delhi.   | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA Several migrant labourers are packing their bags home due to job loss, uncertain future, and fear of getting infected Amid the...

From the art market to museums, here are our top stories from a year in lockdown. March 16, 2021 People wearing protective face masks outside the Louvre in Paris. Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images. The past year has been a whirlwind: wildfires raged in California, Donald Trump was impeached for a second time, protests against police violence erupted around the world, and an unheard of virus swept the planet, bringing life, as we knew it, to a standstill. As we look ...

Image: FrackFeed “Welcome to your new favorite place,” the headline of the website FrackFeed read at the beginning of December. “The dankest memes curated for your lurking enjoyment.” Advertisement If you happen to be obsessed with both fracking and some semblance of early 2010s internet culture, FrackFeed was your playground. The site boasted quizzes (“Pick a Pumpjack”), jokes (“What do you call someone who steals energy? A joule thief”), and listicles (“The Top 5 Oilfield In...

The House is expected to vote on an election reform bill this week, but that measure is unlikely to pass in the Senate.