Links for International Law Class Fall 20000

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Links for the Slomanson text

Slomanson, FUNDAMENTAL PERSPECTIVES on INTERNATIONAL LAW, Third edition, Website: http://home.att.net/~slomansonb/txtcsesite.html

General International Law lists of Resources

• Law Library of Congress, page of International and Foreign Law: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/glin/x-multi.html
• Internet Law Library, Treaties and international law -- http://infoessentials.com/ill/89.htm
• Public International Law, resources assembled by Professor Francis Auburn [Australia?], who says of them: These Public International Law Pages assemble a Collection of WWW links related to International Law Topics. The Aim is to present as Many Major and Topical Sources of International Law Resources of Relevance on the Web as possible. http://www.law.ecel.uwa.edu.au/intlaw/
• Foreign and International Law J.W. Long Law Library, Willamette University, a large collection of links: http://www.willamette.edu/law/longlib/forint.htm
• American Society of International Law (ASIL) Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law: http://www.asil.org/resource/home.htm
• August Legal Dictionary: http://august1.com/pubs/dict/index.shtml

International Court of Justice

• Home page for International Court of Justice: http://www.icj-cij.org/

Links on Human Rights in general, and on the Southern Cone in particular

General Human Rights Links:

• A wonderful website providing links from the internet on Human Rights in general; covers a very wide range of subtopics: http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/manual.htm
• And from the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, a web page with many, many links: http://www.unhchr.ch/index.htm

Chile Links

• The Truth About Pinochet: Chile's legacy of torture, murder, international terrorism and "the disappeared" – amazingly detailed site with many, many links. Put together by a British victim of Pinochet’s rule in Chile. http://www.lakota.clara.net/
• Web site by a group of Chileans and others in Britain, who say "We have been prompted into action by the arrest in Britain, in October 1998, of Chile's former head of state, General Pinochet". http://www.remember-chile.org.uk/

Argentina Links

• Argentina Human Rights Information: http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/argentina.html
• The Vanished Gallery, on Human Rights in Argentina – a site very rich in links and full of information: http://www.yendor.com/vanished/
  • One item from that site: A map showing 99 of the about 340 detention centers that were in operation in Argentina during the dirty war: http://www.yendor.com/vanished/detention/map.html
• Macabre new details emerge about Argentina's 'dirty war' from CNN 1996: http://207.25.71.25/WORLD/9603/argentina.war/
• Interesting account from F. A. "Tex" Harris who was Political Officer in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 1977-79. On a web page for the American Foreign Service Association http://afsa.webgen2000.com/inside/dirty_war.html
• Website for Project Disappeared, which is a joint project of several human rights organizations and activists with the purpose of recovering and maintaining memory, understanding what happened in Argentina during the "dirty war" and fighting against impunity. "We invite you to visit it, to contribute, to
• join our efforts - and above all, to remember." http://www.desaparecidos.org/arg/eng.html
• Link page from Project Disappeared, with lots of links to human rights organizations in Argentina: http://www.desaparecidos.org/arg/links.html
• Page for the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (but only in Spanish): http://www.madres.org/

Uruguay Links

• Uruguay: Amnesty International calls for truth and justice for victims of crimes against humanity, story from 1999: http://www.amnesty-usa.org/news/1999/25200199.htm
• INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR PEOPLE DISAPPEARED IN URUGUAY UNDER THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP : http://www.desaparecidos.org/uru/campana/eng.html

International Criminal Court

• A strong and short video that can be viewed online: WITNESS partners with the Coalition for an International Criminal Court at the Hague International Peace Conference (May 11-15, 1999) WITNESS, in partnership with the Campaign for an International Criminal Court, has produced a video public service announcement (PSA) to educate the international community about the need for an International Criminal Court (ICC). The video will be screened at the Hague International Peace Conference from May 11 to 15, 1999, and will hopefully be broadcast internationally in English, Spanish, and French over the next few years while the campaign for ratification of the ICC statute is underway. The promotional video is 90 seconds, and will be used for broadcast, as a provocative piece for conferences, and for distribution to NGOs involved in promoting the ratification of the ICC. http://www.witness.org/archive/iccvideo.htm

• The Committee for an International Criminal Court has some excellent materials, and some excellent links, on their home page: http://www.igc.apc.org/icc/

• Human Rights Watch has a good statement on the court as well: http://www.hrw.org/wr2k/Issues-09.htm

• Human Rights Watch also has a strong statement addressing various US concerns about the treaty: "The ICC Jurisdictional Regime; Addressing U.S. Arguments" http://www.hrw.org/hrw/campaigns/icc/icc-regime.htm

• And HRW also has a page giving links to other sites on the ICC: http://www.hrw.org/hrw/campaigns/icc/icc-lnks.htm

• The Heritage Foundation statement opposing the ICC: THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT VS. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: http://www.heritage.org/library/backgrounder/bg1249.html

• The United Nations Association of the United States has a thoroughly excellent page on the ICC, including their views on the Republican effort to block US adherence to the ICC, and with a page giving further links: http://www.unausa.org/programs/icc.htm

• Global Issues has a page on ICC which some interesting things to say, and which has links to other sites:  http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ICC.asp

• Another page of links on ICC: http://www.agora.stm.it/pr/icc/links.html

Links for Palau, on Trust Territory issue

Various links to information about Palau, but the one that appears to have led to information on politics in Palau now appears to be a dead link:

http://www.pbs.org/edens/palau/p_resources.htm

CIA’s factbook on Palau, mostly a list of statistics with a map:

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ps.html

Story of Sandra Pierantozzi, of Palau, from the Women in Politics page:

http://www.wippac.org/stories/sandra.html

Information about elections in Palau:

http://www.agora.it/elections/election/palau.htm

Report from the US Dept. of the Interior presents a summary of this territory associated with the US through the Compact of Free Association:

http://www.doi.gov/oia/chapter6.html

What the US State Department had to say in 1998 about Human Rights in Palau:

http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1998_hrp_report/palau.html

Brief introduction to Palau:

http://www.underwatercolours.com/necopal.html

State Department’s Travel Advisory information on Palau:

http://travel.state.gov/palau.html

A list of other web-sites having to do with Palau:

http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/pw.html

Rwanda Genocide and the Tribunal

• Great report on Rwanda: Human Rights Watch, March 1999, Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda: http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda/index.htm#TopOfPage
• WEB SITE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA (Their Links to other sites on the lower left of the page connects you to other sites about Rwanda.)  http://www.ictr.org/
• Lewis and Clark's library owns a video which begins with an interesting 15-minute segment on the War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda.  Call number is DT 1756 .A37 1997 v.3.
• Map of Rwanda (warning: it is slow-loading):  http://www.ictr.org/ENGLISH/PHOTOS/rwandaMap.htm
• Rwanda Information Exchange (but it seems not to have been updated since 1998):  http://www.ictr.org/ENGLISH/PHOTOS/rwandaMap.htm
• United Nations in Rwanda page:  http://www.un.rw/
• UN operations in Rwanda links page:  http://www.monuc.un.rw/links.html
• News stories about Rwanda from the UN’s integrated regional information networks page:  http://www.reliefweb.int/IRIN/archive/rwanda.phtml
• The story of women in Rwanda, from Madre, a international women’s human rights organization:  http://www.madre.org/rwanda.htm
• The Rwanda page from University of Pennsylvania’s African links site:  http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Rwanda.html
• Page on Rwanda from Women for Women International: http://www.womenforwomen.org/rwanda1.htm
• CIA Factbook entry on Rwanda: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rw.html
• Nine photographs from Rwanda and the camps in Zaire by Adrian Arbib:  http://www.arbib.org/rwanda/rwanda.html
• A page of Rwanda links:  http://www.migs.org/Data/Links/RWANDA.htm

The Environment and International Law

• Global Warming and the UN: http://www.globalwarming.org/brief/unbrief.htm

International Law and the World Economy

North American Free Trade Association and the controversy about it

• Fair Trade Watch site on NAFTA: The Harsh Reality: http://www.fairtradewatch.org/nafta/index.htm
• On July 13 of 1998, USWA, joined by the Made in USA Foundation, filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the ground that it was not adopted in conformity with Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution.  For a page about this litigation, go to http://www.fairtradewatch.org/nafta/lawsuit.html
• A list of resources on the Internet about the North American Free Trade Agreement and related trade information and agreements: http://www.mexonline.com/nafta.htm
• U.S. Agriculture and the North American Free Trade Agreement, from Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) : http://www.cast-science.org/nafta.htm
• NAFTA Resources from the LANIC site at University of Texas -- lots of material here and lots of links: http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/Mexico/nafta/index.html
• US Department of Agriculture on NAFTA, with links to the text of the agreement: http://ffas.usda.gov/itp/policy/nafta/nafta.html
• Public Citizen, Global Trade Watch on NAFTA: http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/nafta/naftapg.html http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/nafta/naftapg.html
• A pro-free-trade site with favorable assessments of NAFTA from Canadian, Mexican, and US points of view: http://www.freetradeat10.com/about.html
• Canadian Department of International Affairs and Foreign Trade's site on NAFTA: http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/nafta-alena/menu-e.asp
• The Teamsters Union site on NAFTA: http://www.teamster.org/nafta_section.html
• NAFTAconnect's list of NAFTA-related sites on the World Wide Web: http://www.naftaconnect.com/naftaconnect.archivos/other.html

World Trade Organization and the controversy about it

• "Pandemonium Online" pictures of the Seattle Demonstrations against WTO: http://seattlesquare.com/pandemonium/Gallery/WTOPic1.htm
• A clever fake of WTO's home page by an opposition group called RTMark: http://www.gatt.org/.  If you want to read more about RTMark and its campaigns of supporting the sabotage of corporate products, go to their web page (http://rtmark.com/home.html) and look at their past projects section.
• What fake WTO site calls "Links to like-minded sites": http://www.gatt.org/links.html
• The Story of the Seattle Demonstrations and the damage they caused, in pictures, from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/wto/
• Report on the Ministerial Meeting of WTO in Singapore, 1996, by  the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) [site has links to many other sources on WTO]: http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/wto/sing96.html
• Top 10 Reasons to Oppose the World Trade Organization by Global Exchange: http://www.globalexchange.org/economy/rulemakers/topTenReasons.html
• Friends of the Earth's statements on WTO: http://www.foe.org/international/wto/
• Fair Trade Watch's Site on WTO: http://www.fairtradewatch.org/wto.html
• The Real WTO Website: http://www.wto.org/
• Site on Global Trade Negotiations from Center for International Development at Harvard University: http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidtrade/trade2.html
• What the The Canadian Alliance on Trade and Environment had to say about WTO: http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/trade-env/
• And the Sierra Club on WTO: http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/trade-env/env-guide-wto.html
• US Library of Congress, Guide to Law on Line, page of links to mostly official WTO sources: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/glin/x-wto-lk.html
• What the US Council of Economic Advisors has to say about the US Stake in WTO: http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/CEA/html/wto/
• What the Embassy of India has to say about WTO: http://www.indianembassy.org/policy/WTO/overview.html
• A book available in PDF format online is A Citizen's Guide to the World Trade Organization: Everything You Need to Know to Fight for Fair Trade, August, 1999.  http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/gattwto/Reports%20&%20Publications/wto-book.pdf
• COMMENTS OF PUBLIC CITIZEN, INC. REGARDING U.S. PREPARATIONS FOR THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION'S MINISTERIAL MEETING FOURTH QUARTER 1999 October 22, 1998: http://www.tradewatch.org/gattwto/Testimonies%20&%20Comments/1999.htm
• Lots of information about various trade issues at the following site: http://www.tradewatch.org/
• Lots of links also on this Canadian labor page opposed to WTO: http://www.labournet.ca/wto.html
• Comments of the left-leaning Mother Jones magazine on Globalization and WTO (in opposition): http://www.motherjones.com/wto/archive.html
• United States Information Service Briefings Books on various IOs in Geneva has a short description of WTO and other trade organizations in Geneva: http://www3.itu.ch/MISSIONS/US/bb/trade.html
• The United States Trade Representative’s web-page has links to PDF files on the benefits of WTO to US, on what WTO is and etc. http://www.ustr.gov/
• N30 "WTO Showdown" by Paul Hawken from YES! A Journal of Positive Futures: http://www.futurenet.org/13newstories/hawken.html
• They also have a page of links and some of them are to others of their articles on WTO: http://www.futurenet.org/events/wto.html
• "Whose Rules?" by David Morris, also from YES! http://www.futurenet.org/12Climatechange/morris.html