Arroyo cites info-tech role in RP, ASEAN.
SHANGHAI (via PLDT) - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo yesterday stressed the importance of information and communications technology (ICT) in meeting the economic challenges the Philippines and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must face in the future. In her address before the e-APEC module of the...

New push for global taxes: A renewed drive for global taxation threatens to accomplish the UN's goal of an international revenue service that would collect taxes from every person on the planet. (Cover Story: United Nations).
Perhaps it was an unintended irony, but the subject of global taxation -- one of the main attractions at the UN's Monterrey summit -- came at the worst possible time for those of us staring April 15th in the face. Americans and most other people these days are already...

Does the evolution of International Criminal law end with the ICC? The "roaming ICC": a model international criminal court for a State-centric world of international law.
"If women, children, and old people would be murdered a hundred miles from here ... wouldn't you run to help? Then why do you stop this decision of your heart when the distance is 3,000 miles instead of a hundred?" Raphael Lemkin (1) I. INTRODUCTION ...

Human rights and the environment: what specific environmental rights have been recognized?
As early as the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, efforts were made to explore and attempt to understand the interrelationship between human fights and environmental protection. Preparations for the Stockholm Conference coincided with the 1968 United Nations Teheran Conference on Human Rights, the first international conference organized...

International Geneva yearbook; 2008, organization and activities of international institutions in Geneva; v.20.
9789210001595 International Geneva yearbook; 2008, organization and activities of international institutions in Geneva; v.20. Ed. by Dominique Dembinski-Goumard. United Nations Publications 2008 505 pages $55.00 Paperback JX3091 Produced by the United...

The global politics of human embryonic stem cell science.
In a rapidly evolving political landscape, the global politics of human embryonic stem cell science are driven by the several polarities of its immense promise and uncertainty as a vehicle for the treatment of disease, its economic potential and risk, and its cultural attractions and challenges. The international competition...

The last round: the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in light of the Earth Summit.
I. Introduction The 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro dealt with an unprecedented number of issues. Nevertheless, several important matters were marginalized or ignored. For example, neither population nor agriculture issues were included in the U.N. General Assembly Resolution...

The human rights of migrants in the Dominican Republic: Equality, protection, nationality.
Some 800,000 people of Haitian nationality live in the Dominican Republic. Female migration in particular has risen in recent years and is no longer limited to women who accompany their partners as it was for decades. Increasing numbers of women now are migrating by themselves because Haiti's serious and...

All's well that ends well: a pragmatic look at international criminal extradition.
I. INTRODUCTION The impetus for this Comment was the recent capture and extradition(2) to the United States by Mexican authorities(3) of Mexican "drug kingpin"(4) Juan Garcia Abrego. While a momentous and sensational case like this naturally grabs headlines around the world,(5) extradition has long been a regular...

The two faces of the United Nations: The tension between intergovernmentalism and transnationalism.
There is a tension within the United Nations between intergovernmentalism and transnationalism, two forces that encompass different sets of interests and reflect distinct constituencies. As an intergovernmental institution, the UN reflects the overlapping interests of its member states, particularly those on the Security Council. Major initiatives and policies are...