African Union Declaration Against the ICC Not What it Seems (recently published by Foreign Policy in Focus) David GreenbergAfrican Union Declaration Against the ICC Not What it SeemsAugust 4, 2009 Download pdf version Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's eleven day visit to Africa is intended to affirm the Obama administration's commitment to engage the conflict ridden c...

IN THE NEWS: GOP ‘Sovereignty Caucus’ Battles Obama on Treaties (Quoting CGS CEO Don Kraus) David WeigelGOP ‘Sovereignty Caucus’ Battles Obama on TreatiesJune 29, 2009 From the Washington Independent: Shortly after leaving their offices on June 24, dozens of Hill staffers, foreign policy experts, and old Washington hands made their way to the lower floor of the C...

IN THE NEWS: US to Take Seat at UN Human Rights Council (Quoting CGS CEO Don Kraus) By Andre de NesneraUS to Take Seat at UN Human Rights Council 27 May 2009 The United States has been elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council. The U.N. Human Rights Council was established three years ago to replace the widely discredited and highly politicized U.N. Human Rights...

IN THE NEWS: Sudanese rebel voluntarily appears at ICC http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=95410&sectionid=351020504 Sudanese rebel leader Bahar Idriss Abu Garda has voluntarily appeared at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to face war crime charges committed in Darfur. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and ICC have all welco...

IN THE NEWS: Sri Lanka: UN Human Rights Council to discuss plight of IDPs http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=84540 BANGKOK, 25 May 2009 (IRIN) - Human rights groups have welcomed a decision by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to address the condition of more than a quarter of a million conflict-displaced in Sri Lanka in a special session. "This is an importan...

IN THE NEWS: U.S.: Obama Boosts Foreign, Development Aid Spending (Quoting CGS CEO Don Kraus) Jim LobeU.S.: Obama Boosts Foreign, Development Aid Spending True to his promises to bolster Washington's "soft power" abroad, President Barack Obama released details of his fiscal year (FY) 2010 budget that included significant increases in development assistance and other civi...

IN THE NEWS: Sen. Kerry looks for window to ratify Law of the Sea Allison Winter http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/05/07/07greenwire-sen-kerry-looks-for-window-to-ratify-law-of-th-12208.html Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) is crafting a strategy to ratify the long-stalled Law of the Sea Treaty this year -- a move that ocean and foreign policy exper...

IN THE NEWS: Washington Times Letter to the Editor on the Law of the Sea This letter by CGS staff was written in response to an op-ed by Dough Brandow regarding the Law of the Sea in The Washington Times.The Washington TimesTuesday, April 28, 2009LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ratify UNCLOSDon Kraus and Robert A. EnholmSome challenges are global in dimension and cannot be resolv...

ORGANIZATIONAL LETTER: ICC Sign-on Letter to Secretary Clinton Download the PDF Here READ THE TEXT OF THE LETTER:                                           &...

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