The Regina Seminar on the Elimination of Weapons of Mass Destruction In the months preceding the Regina Seminar, the issue of weapons of mass destruction was of paramount concern. The United States, a nuclear power, had launched a pre- emptive attack on the sovereign nation of Iraq, a non-nuclear power, on the basis of its contention that Iraq was in the process of developing nuclear weapons, and that if it succeeded, the world would be threatened with their imminent use. The world was also witnessing the steady expansion of the list of nations which have nuclear weapons capacity, and the possibility of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists. This was widely bruited throughout the West as being an issue of paramount concern and danger. It was in this context that the Regina Seminar sought to bring together scholars who might address the various orientations of the civilizations particularly concerned at this conjuncture of world events. |
AND IMPUNITY: “Best wishes for a successful event,” Message from former President Jimmy Carter to the organizers of the March 2005 Conference
conference on the international issue of impunity for war crimes and crimes against humanity was held at the Palais Bourbon (Assemblée Nationale) in Paris. Confronted with the US policies, its “war on terrorism” and its disastrous impact on global efforts to deepen and entrench the rule of law, the Association for the Defence of International Humanitarian Law, France (ADIF), in cooperation with the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), assembled leading human rights intellectuals, historians, lawyers and NGO representatives from the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, to spearhead international civil society’s response to this threat, for the well-being and positive development of humankind. This is the English translation of its proceedings. |
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