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International Law Prof Blog
Protecting Civilians in Libya
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the Security Council’s “historic” decision to authorize the use “all necessary measures” to protect civilians in Libya, saying the move was an affirmation of the…
International Law Prof Blog
UN Pledges Support for Egypt’s Political Transition
The United Nations stands ready to support Egypt’s political transition, the United Nation’s top political official has said, noting the world body understands that the process must be led by…
Land Use Prof Blog
Protest and Public Space
Listening to events unforld in Tahrir Square reminds me once again the topography of protest. Land use lawyers are only to aware how spatial the right to free speech is…
International Law Prof Blog
Some Responses to the New Year’s Eve Church Bombing in Egypt
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the New Year's Eve bomb attack that killed 21 people and wounded 70 others at the al-Qiddissin Coptic Church in Alexandria, Egypt. He…
International Law Prof Blog
Comparative International Law Conference in December 2011 in Egypt
The American Society of International Law and the American University Cairo are co-sponsoring a Comparative International Law Conference in Cairo, Egypt in December 2011. The conference planners hope to attract…
International Law Prof Blog
15th Anniversary of International Conference on Population and Development
The year 2009 marked the 15th Anniversary of the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, Egypt in 1994. As the name implies, the conference was…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Obama’s Cairo Speech and the Rights of Women
Huffington Post: Let Women Wear the Hijab: The Emptiness of Obama's Cairo Speech, by Peter Daou:I know many will gush over President Obama's Cairo speech and I'mlikely swimming against the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Interesting international sentencing controversy in middle east
Main November 11, 2008Interesting international sentencing controversy in middle eastAnyone troubled by the nature and state of sentencing law and policy in the United States can perhaps take some comfort…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Islamic Scholars Declared That A Woman Who Becomes Pregnant By Rape Must Undergo Abortion
Via AFP/Strait Times: AL-Azhar, Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning, on Sunday declaredthat any woman pregnant by rape must abort the baby immediately inorder to maintain 'social stability'. 'A raped…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Row over abortion right for rape victims in Egypt
Via GulfNews.com:Cairo: With an estimated 20,000 cases of rape annually, some Egyptian lawmakers are pushing for giving rape victims the right to abortion.According to the semi-official newspaper Al Ahram, an…