This post was originally published on UN Dispatch on December 12, 2011. One year after the presidential election that caused the country to descend into chaos, Côte d’Ivoire held its first parliamentary election since 2000 yesterday, Sunday December 11. Media reports concur on a few points: voter turn-out was low and the election was generally peaceful, in spite of the boycott by pro-Gbagbo supporters.
August 20, 2011
This post was originally published on UN Dispatch. C’est le premier billet en français que l’éditeur m’a commandité, donc c’est un essai. Amis francophones, j’aimerai beaucoup savoir ce que vous en pensez. C’est un premier pas pour la justice en Côte d’Ivoire: Laurent et Simone Gbagbo – assignés à résidence dans le nord du pays… [Read more…]
September 21, 2009
From the NYT Lens blog, “Showcase: from birth, death“: Standing in the only operating room in the only medical hospital in all of Guinea-Bissau, Marco Vernaschi watched a nurse take an unsterile needle out of her pocket and, without anesthetic, suture a woman’s vagina after a difficult childbirth. The woman screamed. Mr. Vernaschi took a… [Read more…]
May 1, 2008
Here is an interesting essay by Owen Fiss, a law professor at Yale. I tend to be an advocate of the International Criminal Court, particularly because it (theoretically) signals the end of impunity for perpetrators of atrocities. I find his basic argument, that the internationalization of prosecution is unnecessary because nations usually have the capacity… [Read more…]
April 9, 2008
Been back in the Buduburam settlement for a little over a week now, and it seems clear that we arrived just as tensions were easing between the different parties. While the overt crisis seems to be under control now, there are still many, many unresolved issues at a number of different levels. The refugee community… [Read more…]
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December 13, 2011
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