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On July 16, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo gave an immediate response to the Report of the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights that was summarized in a prior post.  Now we look at some of ...

https://dwkcommentaries.com/2020/07/29/secretary-pompeos-reactions-to-u-s-commission-on-unalienable-rights-final-report/

A prior post reviewed the limited public record (to date) of the first meeting on October 23 of the Commission on Unalienable Rights. To gain a better understanding of what to expect from the Com...

https://dwkcommentaries.com/2019/11/02/human-rights-commentaries-by-mary-ann-glendon-chair-of-the-commission-on-unalienable-rights/

This year Cameroon’s human rights record is a subject of its third  Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. A prior post reviewed the nature of...

https://dwkcommentaries.com/2018/06/12/cameroons-human-rights-record-being-subjected-to-universal-periodic-review-by-u-n-human-rights-council-the-pre-hearing-papers/

As reported in a prior post, the Supreme Court of El Salvador in July 2016 invalidated the country’s 1993 Amnesty Law that had barred criminal prosecution of the most serious violations of hum...

https://dwkcommentaries.com/2017/04/02/salvadoran-responses-to-invalidation-of-its-amnesty-law/

 I am currently taking a brief course, “Sub-Saharan African History to Colonialism,” to learn about such history “from many angles: anthropological, historical, geographic, cultural, and r...

https://dwkcommentaries.com/2016/06/20/exploring-sub-saharan-african-history/

In the fall of 1944, the word “genocide” appeared for the very first time in the book “Axis Rule in Occupied Europe” by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer who lost most of his family in the ...

https://dwkcommentaries.com/2014/10/27/the-birth-of-the-word-genocide/

On September 2nd at the United Nations headquarters, Dr. Hanan Ashraw, a member of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said that Palestine has decided to join ...

https://dwkcommentaries.com/2014/09/03/palestine-has-decided-to-join-the-international-criminal-court/

On September 2, 2014, the International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, issued a statement, “The Public Deserves to know the Truth about the ICC’s Jurisdiction over Palestine.” T...

https://dwkcommentaries.com/2014/09/02/international-criminal-court-prosecutor-icc-has-no-jurisdiction-over-alleged-war-crimes-in-palestine-gaza/

   Today before a cheering crowd of 60,000 in a Nairobi stadium, Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto were inaugurated as the new president and deputy president of Kenya. In his inaugural speech Ken...

https://dwkcommentaries.com/2013/04/09/are-the-international-criminal-courts-kenyan-cases-collapsing/

We just reviewed the status of the investigative situations and cases of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and other ICC developments. Now we look at developments in U.S.-ICC relations. U.N....

https://dwkcommentaries.com/2013/04/03/international-criminal-court-the-u-s-and-the-icc/