customary law in kenya
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WikiLeaks and the institutional framework for national security disclosures.
...As a matter of customary international law, moreover, the assertion of jurisdiction over an entity ...21, 2011). . (115.) For example, shortly before the Kenyan presidential election in 2007, WikiLeaks released a 2004 report by an ...
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Suing Americans for human rights torts overseas: the Supreme Court leaves the door open.
...Embassy in Kenya, an attack plotted in part within the United States. (106) . The only ... not to join those treaties, such heinous acts are prohibited by customary international law. (163) States in the twenty-first century no longer ...
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Predictive due process and the International Criminal Court.
...Muthaura. In that case, which stemmed from Kenya's 2007 election violence, the Appeals Chamber confirmed that the first ... violations in a manner consistent with the Rome Statute and customary international law. . III. LIBYA AND THE EMERGENCE OF PREDICTIVE DUE ...
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543 U.S. 335 (2005), 03-674, Jama v. Immigration & Cus. Enforcement
... has not clearly set it forth would run counter to this Court's customary policy of deference to the President in foreign affairs, and would not be ...'s case, several of the clauses of subparagraph (E) describe Kenya, not Somalia.) Despite this imperfect overlap, petitioner and the dissent ...
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Chapter III. General review of the legal activities of the
United Nations and related intergovernmental organizations
A. General review of the legal activities of the United Nations 1. Membership of the United Nations 87 2. Peace and security (a) Peacekeeping missions and operations (b) Political and peacebuilding missions (c) Other peacekeeping matters (d) Action of Member States authorized by the Security Council (e) Sanctions imposed under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations (f) Terrorism
... the fact that they are not to be considered as establishing customary international law In relation to flag State implementation, the Assembly ...); Mr Marcelo Vázquez-Bermúdez (Ecuador); Mr Amos S Wako (Kenya); Mr Nugroho Wisnumurti (Indonesia); Ms Hanqin Xue (China); and Mr ...
- Destroying the Shrines of Unbelievers: The Challenge of Iconoclasm to the International Framework for the Protection of Cultural Property
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The alienation of Nigerian women in widowhood.
... to bizarre and expensive rituals and practices conceived to be customary and necessary for the deceased and his widow. Against this background, the .... In parts of Kenya Ndu (in Kemdirim 1995), reports that one of the widowhood rituals require ...
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Broken Promises or Unrealistic Expectations?: Comparing the Bush and Obama Administrations on Counterterrorism
I. Introduction - II. The criminal prosecution-military force divide - III. Justifications and consequences of the military force paradigm - A. Indefinite Detention Absent Criminal Charges - 1. Detention in Traditional Armed Conflicts - 2. Detention After 9/11 - B. Military Prosecutions After 9/11 - 1. The Bush Administration‘s Military Commissions - 2. The Obama Administration‘s Military...
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Moving East: Explaining Aspects of Nigerian Trade to China.
...From Kenya to Malawi and Ghana, small farm-holders and households that depended on ... and because many families were not wealthy enough to pay customary bride price for traditional marriages (Morrill, 1963; van den Bersselaar, ...
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Corruption in modern-day Africa: a possible remedy.
... penalties and forfeiture of ill-gotten properties; this is the customary practice of the government of Singapore (Quah, 2011). . Gross National ... committed by Britain against the Kiyuyu people of modern-day Kenya during the 1950s (Elkins, 2004; Cobain et al., 2012). Public apologies ...
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Women's economic rights, international law, and the financial crisis.
... legislation in harmony with international human rights codes and customary international law, and to develop the common law in the light of the .... In some cases, the connection is clear. In Kenya, for example, the government has continually sought to restrict the rights ...
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Internationalized pro bono and a new global role for lawyers in the 21st century: lessons from nation-building in Southern Sudan.
... New York State Bar regulates the activities of a New York lawyer in Kenya. Nor can such a link exist on the international level because "such a ... bind themselves and which excludes the application of treaty or customary law); John Gerard Ruggie, Business and Human Rights: The Evolving ...
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Africology: An Introductory Descriptive Review of Disciplinary Ancestry.
...According to the author, "The territories between the Sudan, Kenya and the sea, including Ethiopia, Somaliland and Souralia, were the first ... and judgments or rulings made by chiefs, village councils, customary native courts and by judicial secret societies show a general pattern of ...
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Managing forced displacement by law in Africa: the role of the new African Union IDPs Convention.
...Cote d'Ivoire d. Democratic Republic of the Congo. e. Ethiopia f. Kenya g. Somalia h. Sudan 2. Environmental and Natural Disasters 3. Trafficking ... provisions, are arguably binding on all states as expressions of customary international law, (201) other binding international human rights treaties ...
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The rise of China and its implications for a changing international legal order.
... have now been declared by international courts and tribunals as customary international law. . Even though we are regrettably not a party--I ...That is why China calls for deferrals of the situations in Kenya and Darfur. It has a slightly different view about how peace and justice ...
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Chapter III. General review of the legal activities of the
United Nations and related intergovernmental organizations
A. General review of the legal activities of the United Nations 1. Membership of the United Nations 105 2. Peace and security (a) Peacekeeping missions and operations (b) Political and peacebuilding missions (c) Other bodies (d) Missions of the Security Council (e) Other peacekeeping matters (f) Action of Member States authorized by the Security Council (g) Sanctions imposed under...
..., Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Japan, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malta, ... that it was uncertain whether the principle had become part of customary international law, whereas other delegations held that that was the case ...
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'It isn't a state problem': the Minas Conga Mine controversy and the need for binding international obligations on corporate actors.
... claims made by non-citizens for violations of international and customary international law. (237) While most cases brought against corporations for ... violations committed by foreign terrorist organizations against Kenyan plaintiffs in Kenya "touch[ed] and concern[ed]" the United States with ...
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Deconstructing international organization immunity.
... authority or administrative action, common-law doctrines, or customary international law. . A. International Agreements . International ...Bank (1999) 2 E.A.L.R. 536 (C.A.K.), reprinted in ILDC 1283 (Kenya) (Lakha, J.A.) (denying immunity where the international organization was ...
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Treated like enemies: the crackdown on Egyptian journalists.
... Gotye, footage of trotting horses, and a press conference in Kenya. . Nevertheless, in June 2014, Judge Nagy Shehata returned a guilty ... were among too prisoners to receive pardons by Sisi as part of a customary prisoner release on the eve of the Eid al-Adha holiday. The move came a ...
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Customary land tenure reform and development: a critique of customary land tenure reform under Malawi's National Land Policy.
.... Machika, McNight (1983) 'Law and Economic Development: A Study of Land Law and Agriculture in Malawi, Kenya and Zambia', Ph.D. Thesis, University of Birmingham. . Mamdani, Mahmood (1996) Citizen and the State: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late ...
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Missing the target: where the Geneva conventions fall short in the context of targeted killing.
... rectify areas of ambiguity in the Conventions and other areas of customary international law in general, (8) but gaps still remain. (9) This note ...embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Tanzania, killing nearly 300 people in the process." Osama bin Laden ...
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Legislative diplomacy.
... have also adopted this view (310) and thus established that customary practice can resolve textual indeterminacy. Factors such as the ... MPs from eight partner countries, hosted seminars in Macedonia and Kenya for 54 staff from nine countries, and hosted two legislative staff ...
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334 F.3d 61 (D.C. Cir. 2003), 02-5252, Macharia v. U.S.
... Appellants, a prospective class of more than 5,000 Kenyan citizens and businesses injured in the 1998 bombing of the United States ... III alleges that the government's security failures violated customary international law, the Kenyan Constitution, and the International. ...
- The Role of Counterterrorism Law in Shaping ad Bellum Norms for Cyber Warfare
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