The President of the Assembly of States Parties (PASP) has, as of mid-day on the second to last day of the ICC Review Conference, released his own “non-paper” containing proposals for the crime of aggression amendments at the 2010 Review Conference for the International Criminal Court. The non-paper complements the rev. 2 version of the Conference Room Paper circulated by…

July 24 marked the end of the most recent session of the Human Rights Committee, a part-time body operating under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 999 UNTS 171. At its most recent session – its 114th – the Committee adopted “Concluding Observations” concerning seven States as part of the state-reporting process. It also…

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has given notice of its intention to withdraw in a year’s time from the leading regional human rights treaty in the Americas, with the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS) having confirmed receipt of the notice of denunciation here: http://www.oas.org/en/media_center/press_release.asp?sCodigo=E-307/12. (Rumours back in July had suggested that Venezuela…