Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Sep 4, 2008	Police Intelligence In The Bahamas
Assassination attempts foiled: By CANDIA DAMES, Guardian News Editor - Nassau, Bahamas: The Royal Bahamas Police Force is increasingly driven by intelligence-led policing, which has thwarted assassination attempts on magistrates, prosecutors and witnesses, Acting Commissioner of Police...... [view]

Posted By:  CSRwire Posted On:  Aug 21, 2008	Ten Ways that Social Media and Sustainability Align
The Arnold Palmer is an exceptional beverage. It takes two individual beverages, iced tea and lemonade, each very good in their own right, and creates an even better one. That’s how we feel about social media and green living i.e. sustainability. There is nothing inherently green about...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Aug 21, 2008	From Kosovo to South Ossetia: in search of a precedent
MOSCOW. (Oksana Antonenko, Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies for RIA Novosti) - When Europe and the US advocated the independence of Kosovo, many experts warned that its impact on the Caucasus would be destabilising. The Allies responded by repeating that Kosovo...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Aug 16, 2008	Chronicle of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict: Fact sheet
In the Soviet times South Ossetia was an autonomous area within Georgia. In 1991 Georgia's first president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, abolished the autonomy. The South Ossetian authorities rejected that decision and put up an armed resistance to the Georgians. In January 1991 open warfare broke...... [view]

Posted By:  CSRwire Posted On:  Aug 15, 2008	International Finance Corporation Social Standards Fund Human Rights Abuses
Picture this: It's the morning of May 28, 1998, and you're a peaceful demonstrator on an oil platform in the Niger Delta. You're protesting the devastating impacts Chevron’s operations have had on your impoverished community. The company, of course, is reaping handsome profits off resources...... [view]

Posted By:  vincehof Posted On:  Aug 13, 2008	Labour Unions and Capitalist Exploitation of the Masses
It seems to be a commonly held view that the collective bargaining of unions is beneficial to the labour force by countering opressive employment tactics. If we ponder for a moment about how capitalist motivations combine with a more socialist (or even communist)way of thinking we might soon...... [view]

Posted By:  hlsmith Posted On:  Jul 27, 2008	Is there any one on this earth that will help me go back to court?
I would like to know if there is someone out in this world who would like to help me bring my family back together. If they would like to help me go back to court? I am not helpless but do not have the knowledge to even know how to start. I know i just want my boys back, Please. Here is a...... [view]

Posted By:  Prince234 Posted On:  Jul 26, 2008	Re: WHAT IS STATUTORY RAPE?
That make both of them minor, then there's no case.... [view]

Posted By:  RaquelEvita Posted On:  Jul 21, 2008	Niqabi woman denied French citizenship - your thoughts?
Credit: Miss France (Flickr) In June of this year, Faiza Silmi was denied French citizenship because of her choice to wear the niqab – a facial covering worn by some Muslim women. French officials cited her lack of “sufficient assimilation” into French society. They elaborated...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 16, 2008	THE POWERLESS POWERS
Reflections of Fidel: THIS is a serious subject. The summit meeting of leaders of the eight most highly industrialized powers on the planet took place July 7-9 at a mountain retreat on the banks of the Toyako, a lake formed inside a volcanic crater located in the north of the island of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 9, 2008	The Bloody Drumbeat Of Crime and A Young Sovereign Bahamas
This Independence Day, Bahamas: Bahama Journal Editorial - Nassau, Bahamas: Even as our people celebrate Independence, they are being obliged to note and understand that the popular tourist myth of their country and the wider Caribbean as a string of island paradises is being undermined...... [view]

Submitted By:   columbiasp Event Date:  Jul 7, 2008 & Time: 1:00 AM-1:00 AM Event Location:  Leiden University [view]

Leyden-Amsterda-Columbia Summer Program in American Law

Submitted By:   viesuliukas Event Date:  Jun 9, 2008 & Time: 8:30 AM-7:30 AM Event Location:  School of Law, King's College London, Strand Campus [view]

International Graduate Legal Research Conference