http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/index.jsp en-us 05/25/2013 Copyright 2008 incisivemedia. All rights reserved. http://www.law.com/service/terms_conditions.shtml http://www.law.com/img/law/international/international_rss.gif http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/index.jsp A DLA Piper pro bono team from around the world traveled to Tanzania last month to teach negotiation skills to a group of Tanzanian lawyers, most of whom work at government agencies. The firm's pro bono work in Tanzania is part of DLA Piper's New Perimeter, a global pro bono initiative. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202601291277 2013-05-23 14:59:55 Willy Mutunga, the chief justice of Kenya's court system, met with Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman of the New York Court of Appeals on Monday to trade ideas about judicial transparency and accountability as part of Mutunga's push to modernize Kenya's courts. The judges described the meeting as a "partnership" between the two courts. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202600162927 2013-05-15 18:50:53 In 2011, top U.S. Department of Justice officials trumpeted the government's effort to seize millions of dollars in assets belonging to a top public official in Equatorial Guinea. But a federal judge in Washington, D.C., has now ruled against the government in a fight over a $38.5 million Gulfstream jet prosecutors contend Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue obtained through corruption. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202597241673 2013-04-24 14:06:35 Rwanda has successfully blocked the U.N. Security Council from recommending any role for the International Criminal Court in solving conflicts, violence and human rights abuse in Africa, saying the court "condemns crimes committed by some but not others." http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202596482155 2013-04-18 18:37:32 Released by a Zimbabwe court after eight days in jail for allegedly obstructing justice, the country's top rights lawyer said her arrest was a ploy to intimidate human rights activists and pro-democracy groups ahead of upcoming elections. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202593857578 2013-03-28 18:31:24 African warlord Bosco Ntaganda was taken Friday from the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda and flown to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he faces charges stemming from rebels' reign of terror in eastern Congo a decade ago. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202593320691 2013-03-25 17:54:32 Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda, who turned himself in Monday to the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda and asked to be handed over to the International Criminal Court, will remain at the embassy while U.S. officials work to facilitate his transfer to The Hague. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202592720459 2013-03-20 16:18:01 A Dutch court has convicted a Rwandan-born Dutch woman of inciting genocide in Rwanda's 1994 mass murders of ethnic Tutsis by members of the Hutu tribe, the first conviction of a Dutch citizen for the crime. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202590638918 2013-03-04 13:44:50 Five Somali men were convicted of piracy Wednesday for the 2010 attack on the USS Ashland off the coast of Africa. Each faces a mandatory life sentence plus additional time for related charges. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202590181267 2013-02-28 18:08:11 A New Hampshire woman who emigrated from Rwanda in 1998 was stripped of her citizenship by a federal judge Thursday after a jury found her guilty of lying on immigration forms about her affiliation with the political party that led the central African nation's 1994 genocide. Beatrice Munyenyezi faces up to 10 years in prison. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202589305237 2013-02-25 14:17:21