Vol. 102 No. 1, January 2008
Index
- Army snipers acquitted of murder charges in killings of Iraqis using disputed tactics.
- Congressional initiative to deem killings of Armenians as genocide stalls in house.
- Continued U.S. Navy operations against pirates off Somalia.
- Continuing U.S. and multilateral efforts to curb Iran's nuclear program.
- Developments relating to continued detentions at Guantanamo Bay.
- Law of the Sea Treaty reported out of committee: timing and prospects for full Senate action unknown.
- Ninth Circuit bars suit against Caterpillar for selling bulldozers to the Israeli Defense Forces.
- Ninth Circuit finds Vienna Convention on Consular Relations does not establish rights enforceable under U.S. civil rights law.
- Possible looming conflict with EU regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from civil aviation: United States prefers ICAO action.
- Second circuit issues divided ruling on 'aiding and abetting' rights violations.
- Secret justice department memos said to sanction 'severe' interrogation tactics.
- U.S. Congress and administration consider responses to excessive uses of force by U.S. security firms.
- U.S. efforts to identify and deport human rights abusers.
- U.S. policy regarding landmines.
- U.S. positions in international climate change negotiations.
- U.S. state governments join international carbon action partnership on global cap-and-trade carbon markets.
- United States and Canada arbitrate a softwood lumber dispute in the London Court of International Arbitration.
- United States and Iraq establish principles for future relationship, agree to negotiate implementing agreements during 2008.
- United States and Russia reaffirm support for INF treaty.
- United States imposes new economic sanctions on several countries.
- United States ratifies Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption.
- United States supports expedited accelerate phase-out of HCFCs.