Web Sources: Prof. Paust's "Use of Force" Seminar

 

New Fall 2004:
1) regarding "the Bush Doctrine," see: http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.pdf
2) regarding interrogation techniques, see:

a) DOJ OLC Att’ys John Yoo & Robert Delahunty Memo to DOD Gen. Counsel Wm. Hayns (Jan. 9, 2002):
at http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5025040/site/newsweek/:
b) White House Counsel Gonzales Memorandum to President Bush (Jan. 25, 2002):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4999148/site/newsweek
c) Report by Major General Taguba, Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade (Feb. 2004)
http://www.npr.org/iraq/2004/prison_abuse_report.pdf
d) Final Report of the Independent Panel to Review DOD Detention Operations (Aug. 2004)
http://wid.ap.org/documents/iraq/040824finalreport.pdf
e) The “Fay” Report:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug2004/d20040825fay.pdf
and at: http://www.npr.org/documents/2004/abuse/fay-jones_report.pdf
f) Sec. Rumsfeld Memorandum for the Commander, U.S. So. Command, on Counter-Resistance Techniques in the War on Terrorism:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/041603rumsfeld.pdf
g) Human Rights Watch Report re: Chronology of decisions and chart of techniques (with some click-ons to other documents):
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/08/19/usdom9248.htm

International Institutions

The United Nations http://www.un.org

• About the UN
• General Assembly Resolutions
• UN International Law Section
• UN Security Council
  • Functions and Powers, Members
  • Voting Record Search, Rules of Procedure
  • Latest News
  • Resolutions (1946-present) currently experiencing access problems, try later. 03/13/03
  • Counter Terrorism Committee
  • United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
  • Press Releases (under construction)
• UN actions against Terrorism
  • Actions against Terrorism by the Security Council
• Peace and Security

The International Court of Justice http://www.icj-cij.org
Homepage in English

• General Information
• Basic Documents
  • UN Charter
  • Statute of the Court
  • Rules of Court (1978) AS AMENDED ON 5 DECEMBER 2000
  • Current Docket of the Court
  • Decisions of the ICJ: List of Cases science 1946
  • Information on the 2003 summer internship program at the ICJ
• and More

The International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia http://www.un.org/icty

• The ICTY at a Glance including
  • Proceedings
  • List of Public Indictments
  • List of Detainees
  • Case information Sheets

The International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda http://www.ictr.org (little slow)

• About ICTR
• Basic Legal Documents
• Cases including cases in progress and completed cases.
• ICTR Library

The Rome Statute of International Criminal Court http://www.un.org/law/icc/

• ICC Overview
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
• International Criminal Court
• and More

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights http://www.unhchr.ch

• A-Z listing of all Contents in this Site
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Human Rights Issues A-Z
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Full text in 6 languages
• Internship
• and More

Related Sites:

• The World Trade Organization http://www.wto.org
• The International Labor Organization http://www.ilo.org
• The International Monetary Fund http://www.imf.org
• The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development http://www.worldbank.org

 

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Regional Institutions

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organizations http://www.nato.int/

• The North Atlantic Treaty
• Member Countries,
• NATO Academic Forum
• NATO Conferences, Seminars and Workshops
• Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centrex (EADRCC)
• Defense Expenditure
• On-Line Library
• and More

The Council of Europe http://www.coe.int/portalT.asp

• About the Council: history, members etc.
• legal affairs http://www.coe.int/T/E/Legal_affairs/
• Commissioner for Human Rights
• Directorate General of Human Rights
  • Economic and Social Rights
  • Preventing Torture
  • National Minorities
  • Equality between women and men
  • and more
• more on the European Council

The European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg) http://www.echr.coe.int

• More

The European Union http://www.europa.eu.int

• The EU at a glance
• Foreign and Security Policy
• Institutions
  • The Council of the EU , Common Foreign and Security Policy
    • EU military structure
  • The Commission
    • Freedom, Security and Justice
  • The Parliament
  • The Court of Justice
  • and more

The European Court of Justice http://curia.eu.int

• Case law search since 1997

The Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe http://www.osce.org

• About
• Publications
• and more

The Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) http://www.aseansec.org

The Organization of American States http://www.oas.org

The Organization of African Unity http://www.oau-oua.org

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Relevant US Departments and Agencies

The White House

• About the Creation of the Department of Homeland Security

The Senate

The House of Representatives

U.S. Department of State

• News Releases
• Country Reports on Human Rights

U.S. Department of Defense

• U.S. Department of Defense News about the War on Terrorism

Homeland Security Homepage

CIA

• CIA Vision, Mission, and Values
• War on Terrorism
• Office of Military Affairs
• CIA World Fact Book 2002

FBI

• FBI Priorities

The Judge Advocate General's School-US Army http://www.jagcnet.army.mil/TJAGSA

The United States Military Academy at West Point http://www.usma.edu/

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UK Ministries and Parliament

The UK Prime Minister's home page http://www.number-10.gov.uk/

UK Parliament

• The House of Commons
• The House of Lords

Her Majesty's Stationery Office (Government Publications in the UK)

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Non-Governmental Organizations, Professional Associations

The American Society of International Law (ASIL) http://www.asil.org/

• Terrorism Task Force
  • Paust: There is No Need to Revise the Laws of War in Light of September 11th
• Terrorism Index
• International Criminal Sources
• The International Law Spring Board a gateway to useful links on International Law.

General Comments adopted by the Human Rights Committee via the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

Crimes of War: use of force, war crimes, crimes against humanity

The European Journal of International Law http://www.ejil.org

Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights http://www.lchr.org

Women and International Law http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana

Coalition for International Criminal Court http://www.iccnow.org/

USA for the International Criminal Court http://www.usaforicc.org/

International Criminal Court: Resources in Print and Electronic Format
Compiled by Lyonette Louis-Jacques http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/icc.html

Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/

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