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War Crimes and the UN Human Rights Council Resolution on Sri Lanka

On 22 March, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva adopted the draft resolution, proposed by the United States, on reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka. It was issued in a context of war crimes accusations over the conduct of Sri Lankan forces in the final throes of the conflict with the LTTE (Tamil Tigers)(…)

Criminalising Support for "Terrorists" in EU & US Law (Part 2)

Yesterday I highlighted M & Others, a UK/EU case that addresses whether or not social security payments to the spouses of persons suspected of involvement in terrorism should be caught within the EU sanctions regime. The European Court of Justice has held that they should not. Today, on the UK Human Rights blog, Adam Wagner(…)

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