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The Seventh Review Conference of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (BTWC)...
This week, until 25 November, diplomats from some 100 States will meet in Geneva for the Fourth Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). High on the agenda is a new...
The crumbling of North African (NA) regimes holds serious challenges for international law on the African continent. Traditional international law refrained from prescribing to states which forms...
The Union of the Comoros gained independence from France in July 1975, and since that time has experienced significant political instability and violence, including a number of coups. The country...
On 29 August, the international community observed the second International Day against Nuclear Tests. The UN General Assembly created the event in December 2009 through the unanimous adoption of...
In recent times piracy has leapt to the forefront as a threat to the world economy; impacting the prices of commodities and raising concerns about the long term impact on energy prices. Southern...
The World Bank expects South Africa’s growth rate to recover to 3.5% in 2011, on the back of continued consumer spending and a recovery in private investment spending, which contracted sharply...