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International Markets and Armed Conflict – Part I

Posted on 19/12/201127/11/2012 by markbtaylor

‘Conflict Financing’ is a periodic email bulletin from Professor Bruce Broomhall, Department of Law, University of Quebec at Montreal. The list supports those interested in conflict financing, natural resources and armed conflict, and related questions. Professor Broomhall has kindly allowed LoR to excerpt the latest number. This edition of our bulletin looks at current efforts…

When Protest Becomes ‘Thuggery’: Egypt’s Military Trials and Emergency Law

Posted on 16/09/201125/12/2016 by markbtaylor

In Tahrir square today, people are taking to the streets to confront Egypt’s criminalization of protest. LoR contributor Yasmine Gado writes from Cairo on the background to today’s protests. On Saturday, 11 September Egypt’s interim ministerial cabinet announced its decision to expand and reactivate Egypt’s Emergency Law that had been in effect during Mubarak’s entire…