JURIST - Monitor: December 2005

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Patriot Act extension press conference [US Senate]
7:29 PM ET

Press conference on short-term extension of the Patriot Act, Sens. John Sununu (R-NH), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), December 21, 2005. Listen to recorded audio [video not available] via FedNet.

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SG Kofi Annan year-end press conference [UN]
3:24 PM ET

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan 2005 year-end press conference, December 21, 2005 [discussing UN reform and several other law-related issues]. RealPlayer, 1 hr. 2 mins. Watch recorded video.

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Monday, December 19, 2005

Bush year-end press conference [White House]
10:00 PM ET

President George W. Bush, year-end news conference, December 19, 2005 [discussing the Iraq parliamentary election, Patriot Act renewal, domestic spying on US residents by the NSA, and other legal issues]. RealPlayer, 55 minutes. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here and here.

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Saturday, December 17, 2005

Bush address on Patriot Act renewal, NSA surveillance [White House]
9:57 PM ET

President George W. Bush, weekly radio address, December 17, 2005 [calling on senators to stop filibustering Patriot Act renewal, and acknowledging that for national security reasons he has approved secret NSA eavesdropping in the US]. RealPlayer, 7 minutes. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Thursday, December 15, 2005

Combating corruption [UN]
10:35 PM ET

"Combating Corruption", panel discussion to mark the entry into force of the 2003 UN Convention Against Corruption, December 15, 2005. Watch recorded video.

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War crimes tribunal review [UN SC]
3:03 PM ET

Review of work by the International Criminal Court for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), with briefings by ICTY Chief Perosecutor Carla del Ponte and others, UN Security Council, December 15, 2005. RealPlayer, 3 hrs. 40 mins. Watch recorded video.

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Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Torture, the Press and Human Rights After Abu Ghraib [Princeton U.]
9:49 PM ET

Torture, the Press and Human Rights After Abu Ghraib, Mark Danner, New Yorker Staff Writer; Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights, Democracy and Journalism, Bard College, recorded November 9, 2005. RealPlayer, 1 hr. 42 mins. Watch recorded video.

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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Executive Power and the War on Terrorism [Harvard Law School]
10:07 PM ET

Executive Power and the War on Terrorism, Harvard Law School, recorded November 10, 2005, featuring HLS professor and terrorism expert Philip Heymann, former White House associate counsel Bradford Berenson and Deborah Pearlstein, director of the U.S. Law and Security Program at Human Rights First. RealPlayer, 1 hr. 36 mins. Watch recorded video.

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Mehlis briefing on Hariri probe [UNIIIC]
9:48 PM ET

Detlev Mehlis, Commissioner of the International Independent Investigation Commission established pursuant to Security Council Resolutions 1595 and 1636, briefs on his latest report on the Hariri assassination, December 13, 2005. RealPlayer, 31 minutes. Watch recorded video.

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ICC prosecutor report on Sudan [UN SC]
9:06 PM ET

International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo reports to the UN Security Council on the ICC probe into crimes against humanity in Darfur, UN Security Council, December 13, 2005. RealPlayer, 19 minutes. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Mehlis report on Hariri probe [UN SC]
8:59 PM ET

Detlev Mehlis, Commissioner of the International Independent Investigation Commission established pursuant to Security Council Resolutions 1595 and 1636, presents his latest report on the Hariri assassination to the UN Security Council, December 13, 2005. RealPlayer, 31 minutes. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Saturday, December 10, 2005

The Solomon Amendment [Duke Law School]
10:43 PM ET

The Solomon Amendment and FAIR v. Rumsfeld, Duke Law School, recorded November 22, 2005 [panel discussion with Erwin Chemerinsky and others]. RealPlayer, 1 hr. Watch recorded video.

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The Nomination of Samuel Alito [Duke Law School]
8:53 PM ET

Extraordinary Circumstances? The Nomination of Samuel Alito, American Constitution Society, Duke Law School, recorded November 17, 2005 [discussion of the US Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito, featuring Professor Erwin Chemerinsky and others]. RealPlayer, 51 minures. Watch recorded video.

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Bush address on Patriot Act renewal [White House]
11:39 AM ET

President George W. Bush, weekly radio address, December 10, 2005 [urging Congress to renew expiring provisions of the Patriot Act ]. RealPlayer, 4 minutes. Listen to recorded audio [no video avaiable]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Friday, December 09, 2005

Protection of civilians in armed conflict [UN USG Jan Egeland]
9:28 PM ET

Protection of civilians in armed conflict, UN Under-Secretary-General Jan Egeland, UN Security Council, December 9, 2005. RealPlayer, 3 hrs. Watch recorded video.

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Thursday, December 08, 2005

Inuit climate rights petition announcement [UNFCCC]
5:47 PM ET

The right to be cold: Inuit defend their human rights in the face of climate change, United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change, December 7, 2005 [press conference by the Inuit Circumpolar Conference announcing the filing of a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights accusing the US government of violating Inuit human rights by failing to adequately fight the thaw of Arctic ice]. Watch recorded video. RealPlayer, 2 hrs, 23 mins. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Torture in the 21st Century [UN]
10:16 PM ET

Rearing its Ugly Head: the Resurgence of Torture in the 21st Century and the Struggle to Combat It, United Nations OHCHR panel discussion for Human Rights Day 2005, December 7, 2005 [featuring Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; Juan Mendez, United Nations Special Advisor on Prevention of Genocide; Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights; Hina Shamsi, Human Rights First; Suliman Baldo, International Crisis Group]. RealPlayer 2 hrs, 18 mins. Watch recorded video.

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What to Look for in the Alito Hearings [Cato Institute]
9:53 PM ET

What to Look for in the Alito Hearings, Cato Institute, December 7, 2005. RealPlayer, 1 hr. 5 mins. Watch recorded video.

Pinter war crimes address [Nobel Committee]
9:29 PM ET

Art, Truth and Politics, Harold Pinter acceptance speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, December 7, 2005 [calling for war crimes charges against US President Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and characterizing the Iraq war as "contempt for the concept of international law" and saying that Blair should be brought before the International Criminal Court, to which the UK is a state party]. RealPlayer 46 mins. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Torture and human rights [UN HCHR]
8:58 PM ET

Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, briefs on torture and global efforts to combat it, December 7, 2005 [briefing for Human Rights Day 2005]. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Solomon Amendment oral arguments [US SC]
9:47 PM ET

Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic Rights (FAIR) oral arguments, Supreme Court of the United States, December 6, 2005 [on whether the Solomon Amendment, a federal law that requires educational institutions, including law schools, to allow military recruiters on campus in order to receive federal funds, violates universities' First Amendment right of association]. Listen to recorded audio [video not available]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Why is Paris Burning? [Harvard U.]
9:43 PM ET

Why is Paris Burning?, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Institute of Politics JFK Jr. Forum, December 6, 2005 [panelists discussing the causes and consequences of the November French riots in Paris and elsewhere]. RealPlayer, 1 hr. 20 mins. Watch recorded video.

El-Masri v. Tenet rendition lawsuit announcement [ACLU]
9:38 PM ET

Announcement of a lawsuit against the CIA on hehalf of Khaled El-Masri, American Civil Liberties Union, December 6, 2005 [alleging that El_Masri was kidnapped while on vacation in Macedonia, beaten, drugged and transported to a secret CIA facility in Afghanistan and was later left abandoned in Albania without ever being charged]. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Monday, December 05, 2005

Rice rendition remarks [US State Dept.]
8:15 PM ET

Remarks on rendition upon departure for Europe, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, December 5, 2005 [stating that the US government has used rendition for decades when traditional extradition was not a viable option, that the US has always acted in accordance with international law and treaty obligations, and that the US does not authorize or condone torture of detainees]. Windows Media Player, 12 minutes. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.