INTERNATIONAL LAW related term(s) Treaties and Agreements

Addresses

New Constitution of Kenya and the Role of the Judiciary: Willy Mutunga, Supreme Court of Kenya, E652–E654 [25AP]

Amendments

Africa: condemn atrocities and encourage efforts to end threats by the Lord’s Resistance Army and bring Joseph Kony and his top commanders to justice (S. Res. 402), S6003, S6007, S6008 [2AU]

Dept. of State: authorize payment of a reward to combat transnational organized crime and for information concerning foreign nationals wanted by international criminal tribunals (S. 2318), S8230 [19DE]

Russia: impose sanctions on persons responsible for detention, abuse, or death of Sergei Magnitsky, the conspiracy to defraud Russia of taxes on corporate profits, and other human rights violations (S. 3406), S5681 [30JY]

Articles and editorials

Charles Taylor Conviction Sends Warning to Tyrants, E686 [27AP]

Kremlin’s Blacklist, H6386 [15NO]

Russia Plans To Retry Dead Lawyer in Tax Case, H6386 [15NO]

Three Cheers for the Magnitsky Act and American Values, H6407 [16NO]

Bills and resolutions

Africa: condemn atrocities and encourage efforts to end threats by the Lord’s Resistance Army and bring Joseph Kony and his top commanders to justice (see S. Res. 402), S1932 [21MR] (see H. Res. 583), H1362 [13MR]

——— condemn atrocities and encourage efforts to end threats by the Lord’s Resistance Army and bring Joseph Kony and his top commanders to justice and express support to victims of such atrocities (see H. Res. 584), H1362 [13MR]

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud: call for arrest and prosecution for incitement to genocide (see H. Res. 807), H6318 [26OC]

Children and youth: call on all governments to assist in the safe return of children abducted from or wrongfully retained outside the country of their habitual residence (see S. Res. 449), S3042 [9MY]

Courts: clarify exception to foreign sovereign jurisdictional immunity as it applies to certain art exhibitions (see S. 2212), S1847 [20MR] (see H.R. 4086), H950 [24FE]

Crime: combat trafficking in human organs (see H.R. 6573), H6306 [12OC]

Dept. of State: authorize payment of a reward to combat transnational organized crime and for information concerning foreign nationals wanted by international criminal tribunals (see S. 2318), S2545 [19AP] (see H.R. 4077), H943 [17FE]

——— take steps in the U.N. to move the seat of the International Court of Justice from the Netherlands due to failure to investigate child rape allegations against a Ministry of Justice official (see H. Res. 838), H7360 [19DE]

Hague Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance: implement (see H.R. 4282), H1739 [28MR]

Human rights: modify certain provisions of law relative to torture (see H.R. 4011), H692 [9FE]

——— prevent human trafficking in Government contracting (see S. 2234), S2030 [26MR] (see H.R. 4259), H1570 [26MR]

Law enforcement: direct the President to report to Congress on fugitives currently residing in other countries whose extradition is sought by the U.S. (see H.R. 6698), H7424 [20DE]

Russia: disapprove law ending inter-country adoptions of Russian children by U.S. citizens, urge reconsideration of the law, and prioritize processing of adoptions of children matched before enactment (see S. Res. 628), S8589 [31DE]

——— impose sanctions on persons responsible for detention, abuse, or death of Sergei Magnitsky, the conspiracy to defraud Russia of taxes on corporate profits, and other human rights violations (see S. 3406), S5211 [19JY] (see H.R. 4405), H2029 [19AP]

Syria: condemn human rights violations and call for transition to democracy and for President Bashar al-Assad to be tried before the International Criminal Court (see H. Res. 687), H3707 [15JN]

War: hold war crimes suspects and Nazi war criminals accountable by encouraging foreign prosecution and extradition of such suspects and criminals (see H.R. 6382), H5922 [12SE]

Letters

Closure of detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: several human rights, religious, and civil liberties organizations, H7367 [20DE]

Dept. of State seeking of compensation for claims of U.S. investors who owned shares in Yukos Oil Co. before the Russian Government expropriation of the company: Senators Inhofe and Scott P. Brown, S4945 [12JY]

Disapprove law ending inter-country adoptions of Russian children by U.S. citizens and urge reconsideration of the law: several Senators, S8591 [31DE]

International Child Support Recovery Improvement Act: Colleen Delaney Eubanks, National Child Support Enforcement Association, H3450 [5JN]

——— Gordon L. Berlin, Building Knowledge To Improve Social Policy (organization), H3450 [5JN]

——— Jon Baron, Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, H3450 [5JN]

——— Representative Camp, Committee on Ways and Means (House), H3451 [5JN]

——— Representative Lamar Smith, Committee on the Judiciary (House), H3451 [5JN]

Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act: Alexander Boroda, Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, S7449 [5DE]

Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act: Boris Nemtsov, S808 [16FE]

——— several Russian citizens, S808 [16FE]

Lists

Citizens supporting S. Res. 402, condemn atrocities in Africa and encourage efforts to end threats by the Lord’s Resistance Army and bring Joseph Kony and his top commanders to justice, S4632 [26JN]

Messages

Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities Held With an Intermediary: President Obama, S3293 [17MY]

National Emergency Relative to Significant Transnational Criminal Organizations: President Obama, S5132 [18JY], H4920 [18JY]

Protocol Amending the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters: President Obama, S3292 [17MY]

Proposals

Recommendation Establishing Common Visa Restrictions for Russian Officials Involved in the Sergei Magnitsky Case: European Union, H6406 [16NO]

Remarks in House

Africa: condemn atrocities and encourage efforts to end threats by the Lord’s Resistance Army and bring Joseph Kony and his top commanders to justice (H. Res. 583), H1429 [21MR]

Courts: clarify exception to foreign sovereign jurisdictional immunity as it applies to certain art exhibitions (H.R. 4086), H1370–H1372 [19MR]

Dept. of Defense: close detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, H7366, H7385 [20DE]

Dept. of State: authorize payment of a reward to combat transnational organized crime and for information concerning foreign nationals wanted by international criminal tribunals (H.R. 4077), H1429 [21MR], E2017 [31DE]

——— authorize payment of a reward to combat transnational organized crime and for information concerning foreign nationals wanted by international criminal tribunals (S. 2318), H7461, H7462 [30DE], H7559 [1JA]

Finucane, Patrick: urge full and impartial inquiry into murder of human rights lawyer by British-loyalist paramilitaries, H6712 [12DE]

Hague Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance: implement (H.R. 4282), H3448–H3451 [5JN]

Human rights: prevent human trafficking in Government contracting, H3135, H3136 [18MY]

Immigration: reaffirm U.S. commitment to protecting refugees who are fleeing persecution (H.R. 2185), E1093 [20JN]

Russia: impose sanctions on persons responsible for detention, abuse, or death of Sergei Magnitsky, the conspiracy to defraud Russia of taxes on corporate profits, and other human rights violations, H5975, H5979 [13SE], H6381–H6387 [15NO], H6401–H6411, H6414–H6418 [16NO]

——— impose sanctions on persons responsible for detention, abuse, or death of Sergei Magnitsky, the conspiracy to defraud Russia of taxes on corporate profits, and other human rights violations (H.R. 4405), E594 [19AP]

——— seek compensation for claims of U.S. investors who owned shares in Yukos Oil Co. before the Russian Government expropriation of the company, H6411 [16NO]

Taylor, Charles: conviction for war crimes and crimes against humanity, E685 [27AP]

Remarks in Senate

Africa: condemn atrocities and encourage efforts to end threats by the Lord’s Resistance Army and bring Joseph Kony and his top commanders to justice, S2485 [18AP], S7181 [29NO]

——— condemn atrocities and encourage efforts to end threats by the Lord’s Resistance Army and bring Joseph Kony and his top commanders to justice (S. Res. 402), S4632 [26JN], S6007 [2AU]

——— impose an asset freeze and visa ban on any outside parties providing support to the M23 rebels, S7189–S7191 [29NO]

Courts: clarify exception to foreign sovereign jurisdictional immunity as it applies to certain art exhibitions (S. 2212), S1848–S1850 [20MR]

Dept. of State: authorize payment of a reward to combat transnational organized crime and for information concerning foreign nationals wanted by international criminal tribunals (S. 2318), S8230, S8231 [19DE]

——— seek compensation for claims of U.S. investors who owned shares in Yukos Oil Co. before the Russian Government expropriation of the company, S4945 [12JY]

Human rights: prevent human trafficking in Government contracting, S7153, S7154, S7205 [29NO], S7699 [10DE]

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe: passage of resolution imposing sanctions on persons responsible for detention, abuse, or death of Sergei Magnitsky, S5187 [19JY]

Russia: characterize conviction of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev as a politically-motivated case of selective arrest and prosecution that undermines the rule of law and Russian judicial independence (S. Res. 65), S8356 [21DE]

——— disapprove law ending inter-country adoptions of Russian children by U.S. citizens, urge reconsideration of the law, and prioritize processing of adoptions of children matched before enactment (S. Res. 628), S8590–S8592, S8609 [31DE]

——— impose sanctions on persons responsible for detention, abuse, or death of Sergei Magnitsky, the conspiracy to defraud Russia of taxes on corporate profits, and other human rights violations, S7429–S7445, S7448–S7453 [5DE], S7646, S7660, S7661 [6DE], S8067 [17DE], S8356 [21DE]

——— impose sanctions on persons responsible for detention, abuse, or death of Sergei Magnitsky, the conspiracy to defraud Russia of taxes on corporate profits, and other human rights violations (S. 1039), S806–S810 [16FE], S5187 [19JY]

——— seek compensation for claims of U.S. investors who owned shares in Yukos Oil Co., before the Russian Government expropriation of the company, S7443 [5DE]

Southeast Asia: call on China to work with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states to resolve territorial issues in the South China Sea, S5335 [25JY]

Treaties and agreements: removal of injunction of secrecy, S3292 [17MY]

U.N.: call for investigation of death of Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, S5852 [1AU]

Reports filed

Condemn Atrocities in Africa and Encourage Efforts To End Threats by the Lord’s Resistance Army and Bring Joseph Kony and His Top Commanders to Justice: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (S. Res. 402), S4366 [20JN]

Dept. of State Rewards Program Update and Technical Corrections Act: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (S. 2318) (S. Rept. 112–232), S6744 [13NO]

End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Senate) (S. 2234), S8203 [19DE]

Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 4086) (H. Rept. 112–413), H1390 [19MR]

Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act: Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 3406), S5211 [19JY]

——— Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 3406) (S. Rept. 112–226), S6545 [20SE]

Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (S. 1039) (S. Rept. 112–191), S5257 [23JY]

Statements

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Passage of Resolution Imposing Sanctions on Persons Responsible for Detention, Abuse, or Death of Sergei Magnitsky: Senator McCain, S5188 [19JY]

Texts of

H.R. 4086, Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act, H1370 [19MR]

H.R. 4282, International Child Support Recovery Improvement Act, H3448 [5JN]

S. 2212, Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act, S1849 [20MR]

S. 2318, Dept. of State Rewards Program Update and Technical Corrections Act, S8230 [19DE], H7461 [30DE]

S. Res. 402, condemn atrocities and encourage efforts to end threats by the Lord’s Resistance Army and bring Joseph Kony and his top commanders to justice, S1941 [21MR], S6009 [2AU]

S. Res. 449, call on all governments to assist in the safe return of children abducted from or wrongfully retained outside the country of their habitual residence, S3046 [9MY]

S. Res. 628, disapprove Russian law ending inter-country adoptions of Russian children by U.S. citizens, urge reconsideration of the law, and prioritize processing of adoptions of children matched before enactment, S8590, S8609 [31DE]