Archive for the ‘International law and structures’ Category
Friday, September 14th, 2007
One of my current side projects is the radio show I present with Bob Naiman on WRFU. A Critical Ear covers a range of US domestic and foreign policy developments. Bob works for Just Foreign Policy and is incredibly well informed on foreign policy, activism, and labor issues, so it's ...
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
Just before I came home for Christmas I was Paul's guest on MediaGeek on WEFT. We had intended, originally, to talk about the state of community media in Ireland and Europe generally, but ended up spending most of the show talking about the Data Retention compromise that had just passed ...
Posted in Computing Technology, Freedom of the press, International Affairs, International law and structures, Media regulation, Prisons and crime | Comments Off on Data retention and vehicle tracking
Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
This is surreal! Giscard d'Estaing blames the failure of the EU constitution in France on the fact that each household was sent a copy of the full text of the constitution:One crucial mistake was to send out the entire three-part, 448-article document to every French voter, said Mr Giscard.
Over the ...
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Saturday, May 21st, 2005
Given that I understand Saddam to be in the custody of the coalition authorities, which includes the UK, does the UK have a legal duty to prevent the publication of photographs of Saddam? That is, does the requirement that a prisoner not be exposed to ridicule cover not only the ...
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Saturday, May 14th, 2005
There's a strange piece in EU Observer today about a controversial passage in a speech by EU Communication Commissioner Margot Wallström:In the original version, Commissioner Wallström was to say "Yet there are those today who want to scrap the supranational idea. They want the European Union to go back to ...
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Monday, April 4th, 2005
So it seems that Dermot Ahern, the Irish minister for Foreign Affairs, has been appointed by Kofi Annan as one of four 'special envoys for UN reform' who will:travel around the world and engage political leaders, civil society representatives, academics and the media. They will present the broad package of ...
Posted in Income and poverty, International law and structures | Comments Off on Dermot Ahern to promote UN reform plan
Thursday, March 31st, 2005
Well, this is good news. It seems that the United States is backing down and allowing a UN Security Council motion calling on the International Criminal Court to investigate the situation in Darfur.
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Friday, March 4th, 2005
You can't say the Bushies don't have long memories
Posted in Citizenship, migration, race, and ethnicity, Education, International Affairs, International law and structures, Labour issues, Political activism | Comments Off on Former Sandinista minister refused US visa – branded as terrorist – can’t accept Harvard visiting professorship
Tuesday, March 1st, 2005
I am so grateful that Clancy pointed to Deborah Stone's powerful juxtaposition of American torture and her mother's experience of lung cancer:On the morning of May 7, the day I was to learn about air hunger, Mom had awakened before me. When I came into the kitchen, my arms out ...
Posted in International Affairs, International law and structures, Prisons and crime, Society and culture | Comments Off on The inhumanity of justification
Friday, February 25th, 2005
Community Radio has, of course, been extending in reach over the last decade or more (as noted in, for instance, UNESCO's World Communications Report) but this article gives an interesting overview of the differences in growth and emphasis in different areas globally. Of particular note is that some parts of ...
Posted in Alternative Media, International law and structures, Media regulation, Radio | Comments Off on Global perspectives on community radio/media