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After the UN's massive failure to intervene and stop the Rwandan genocide in 1994, there was a new wave of momentum in global NGOs and states to establish some principle
of international intervention and to bring perpetrators to justice.
Superman is also a little like America in terms
of international intervention: He requires you to trust that his actions are all in the interest of the greater good — because what are you going to do, fight the guy?
Not exact matches
Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles
of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion
of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke
of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow
of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack
of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number
of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations
of allegations by former members concerning the practices
of Scientology; corruption in the leadership
of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert
intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic
of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record
of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values
of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out
of power in Washington; the murky
international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy
of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots
of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many
of America's public schools; an early exploration
of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study
of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one
of the world's last substantial rain forests.
China's central bank likely spent about $ 90 billion worth
of reserves in currency
interventions in January, leading to net capital outflows
of about $ 113 billion from China during the month, the Institute for
International Finance said on Tuesday.
The Syrian government and Russia vehemently deny involvement and accuse rebel groups
of fabricating the attack to hinder the army's advances and provoke
international military
intervention.
Tucker, P (2009): «The repertoire
of official sector
interventions in the financial system: last resort lending, market - making, and capital», speech at the 2009 Bank
of Japan
International Conference, Tokyo, May.
The following social democratic successor, George Papandreou, was then accused
of claiming the deficit was higher than it really was in order to prompt the
intervention of the troika, the tripartite body composed
of the European Commission, European Central Bank, and
International Monetary Fund.
The Chinese central bank's heavy - handed
intervention in the currency markets earlier this year has triggered a decline in trading
of the renminbi and a reversal in the rise
of the Rmb in
international payments.
The spectacular surge in DFW home prices has been built on the back
of unprecedented financial market
interventions, including a massive $ 5 trillion in
international market injections from 2016 to today.
It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian
intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation
of international criminal tribunals in a number
of cases, about the idea
of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases
of violations
of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights
of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use
of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points
of positive and customary
international law, and that in every one
of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.
This is a form
of re-colonization that does not need any military
intervention; it is done unceremoniously by a mere legal transfer
of ownership
of the shares
of enterprises, helped by the previously mentioned
international agencies built around the UN system.
His argument for «building constituencies for change» is a plea to move beyond the
intervention mode that passes for «
international cooperation,» beyond the patronizing practices
of private aid agencies driven by business competition rather than by civil constituencies and emancipatory agendas shared with others.
Interpretations
of where it is «morally imperative» to intervene remain selective, and
intervention is never purely based on high moral or humanitarian grounds; there are a number
of humanitarian emergencies and nasty dictatorships throughout the world in which the
international community has not stepped in.
Early in 2001 an
international commission
of experts submitted a policy paper to the UN titled «The Responsibility to Protect,» which made the case for
international intervention in cases
of human rights violations and humanitarian emergencies.
If that was the case, then the goal
of any
intervention would probably have to include setting up some sort
of international protectorate....
Relief workers from all organizations were caught in a nightmare
of warring factions and bloodshed that led most
of them to call for
international intervention.
At the panel, Too Much Too Soon: Addressing Over-Intervention in Maternity Care, Vedam and other panelists, including Suellen Miller, Director, Safe Motherhood Program and Myriam Vuckovic, Assistant Professor,
International Health Department, Georgetown University, addressed the growing rate
of unnecessary
interventions in birth in the US and worldwide.
He is actively engaged in developing research in novel attachment - and lactation - promoting
interventions through his
international network
of family practitioners, midwives, obstetricians, pediatricians and child psychologists.
Take account
of international experience Experience from other countries shows that
interventions based on these principles drive up the level
of child support paid; help foster constructive relationships between parents and children and between ex-partners; leave parents feeling better treated and also bring substantial savings to the public purse.
He is engaged in developing research into novel parent - infant
interventions through his
international network
of researchers and clinicians within psychology, pediatrics, orthopedics, obstetrics, breastfeeding medicine, health visiting and midwifery.
As a member
of Postpartum Support,
International, a non-profit organization with volunteer coordinators in each state in the U.S. and 26 countries around the world, Karen and her associates at The Postpartum Stress Center are continuously in touch with the needs
of the postpartum community as well as with current research and state -
of - the - art
interventions.
Interventions to reduce socioeconomic health differences: A review
of the
international literature
Published by Birth (sponsored by Lamaze
International), the Hutton study shows lower rates
of interventions such as cesarean section, episiotomy, and medical pain relief for the home birth group.
The team provides CISM
intervention following the protocols
of the
International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, before, during, and after critical incidents.
Legacy was developed by CDC in collaboration with the University
of Miami, UCLA, and RTI
International, and designed as a randomized controlled trial to test the idea that the Legacy
intervention during early childhood might improve children's development.
Jami M. Furr, Ph.D., is Clinical Director
of the Mental Health
Interventions and Technology (MINT) Program, and Director
of the Selective Mutism Program at the Center for Children and Families (CCF) at Florida
International University, where she is also Clinical Assistant Professor.
For most
of these
interventions, and to the best
of my knowledge, the US did not even make a case for having casus belli under
international law.
The
international intervention is a defeat for the Libyan revolution because the insurgents have had to seek protection... from those same
international powers that up until yesterday had done business with Gaddafi over oil and stopping the movement
of migrants.
PACE (29.07.1974, Resolution 573): «The Turkish military
INTERVENTION was the exercise
of a RIGHT EMANATING FROM AN
INTERNATIONAL TREATY and the fulfilment
of a LEGAL and MORAL obligation.»
The fairly shambolic nature
of the response from the west, and the
international community as a whole (and the fact that though shamefully belated it managed to avert the imminent catastrophe in Benghazi) shows that we have learnt little or nothing from Bosnia, Kossovo, Kurdistan, where
intervention helped, still less from the many other areas where nothing effective was done, and we essentially abandoned people to their fate.
See for example the 2000 Declaration
of the South Summit by the G77 composed
of about 130 member States [«We reject the so - called «right»
of humanitarian
intervention, which has no legal basis in the United Nations Charter or in the general principles
of international law».
By jettisoning the liberal - illiberal binary and giving
international intervention only its due attention, it may be possible to consider a network
of fluid and multifaceted «
international - local» interactions, much like Frederick Cooper has analysed colonial - subject relations during the imperial era.
So, for the UK to see its vision
of international law on humanitarian
intervention established, it has to insist that that vision is already established.
If
international intervention has a limited place in moulding popular discourses, there is a need to question the extent to which we unduly privilege studying interveners and instead turn towards a nuanced and fine - grained analysis focusing on the inhabitants
of war - affected regions, with only proportionate attention to
international actors.
The argument that there is a right
of humanitarian
intervention is usually put as an argument that a rule
of customary
international law has developed since the UN Charter.
He supervises MPhil and PhD theses for both POLIS and the Faculty
of History, which deal primarily with German and British history in its
international context, and the history
of humanitarian
intervention.
The UK is
of course one
of the few States that does accept that
international law provides a right
of humanitarian
intervention.
International intervention in war - affected regions is the subject
of much academic attention.
The argument that
international law today allows for unilateral right
of humanitarian
intervention is very weak.
Significantly, the intimation that
international intervention propounded a specific narrative
of the conflict that lends legitimacy to Museveni's regime may be true, but it was evident that such a discourse did not gain traction across society.
Russian elites have used Obama's striking change
of opinion as proof that Moscow's military
interventions in Ukraine and Syria have boosted Russia's
international status.
More recently, the use
of high altitude bombing by NATO forces during the Kosovo
intervention was the subject
of criticism (Independent
International Convention on Kosovo Report, 289 - 92).
The reasons can be summarized in the following: - > Harsh economic environment
of pre-Revolutionary Russia - > Imperialistic
Intervention - > Tough
international environment during socialist construction (WWI, WWII)- > Opportunistic transformation
of the Communist Party (Adoption
of capitalistic methods in economy, less power to the soviets, etc..)
The prime minister's comments were rejected by Dr James Smith, chief executive
of the anti-genocide Aegis Group, who called for much greater
international intervention into Darfur.
The Report highlights the significant shift since 2010 in DFID's
international development strategy to increasingly promote private sector involvement in the design and delivery
of education services, despite the fact that DFID's own research evidence questions the impact
of such
interventions in relation to education quality and equity for learners.
Andrew Mitchell, the
international development secretary, reportedly made the
intervention after he was asked for help by Anthony Ward, whose firm, Armajaro Holdings, had been banned from trading following allegations that a contractor was involved in smuggling cocoa out
of Ghana.
«In terms
of the distribution
of the satellite boxes, government will make an
intervention because as a social democratic government, we believe that the
international agreement that is saying that we should migrate from analogue to the digital broadcasting must also be sensitive to the plight
of the have - nots.
The House
of Representatives spokesman while addressing journalists in Abuja on Thursday said that the constituency projects funds, also known as zonal
intervention funds, were standard
international practice.