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Reforming the Syrian Penal Code: Honor Crimes
At the Syrian National Forum on Honor Crimes, held 14-16 October 2008 in Damascus, Dr. Abboud Al Sarraj, the former Dean of the Damascus Faculty of Law, delivered a speech on the need to reform Article 192 and to repeal Article 548 of the Syrian Penal Code because these honor-crimes exemptions are inconsistent with Islamic Shari'a law. Dr. Mohamed Farouq Al-Basha, the legal adviser at the Syrian Commission for Family Affairs, argued that Article 548 violates key provisions of the Syrian Constitution. The final recommendations adopted at the National Forum called for the reform of the punishment under Article 192, the repeal of Article 548, and the strengthening of the penalty for adultery for both men and women. Women's rights advocates in Syria see this as a step towards the abolition of honor crimes or at least a review of the unequal treatment of women under those articles of the Penal Code.
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Return of the StateThis article is the extended address by José E. Alvarez, the Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at New York University School of Law, at the University of Minnesota Law School's conference on "International Economic Law in a Time of Change." Alvarez relects upon and rebuts a collection of papers on supra-nationalism presented at the conference. He argues that states, as sovereign entities, are making a comeback. The full-text is available online for free.
Whither Justice? Uganda and Five Years of the International Criminal Court Michael Drexler argues that the International Criminal Court is pursuing an inappropriate engagement strategy in Uganda by ignoring the impacts of criminal prosecution and investigation on the prospects for peace to the country's decades-long conflict. It is published by the peer-reviewed Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law (IJHRL) and is available online for free.
