Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits contentious war shrine Wearing formal attire and followed by media helicopters that streamed his visit live on television‚ Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a contentious Tokyo war shrine Yasukuni early Thursday on Dec 26th 2013‚ provoking swift condemnation especially from China and South Korea‚ both victims of Japan’s wartime aggression during World War II. The shrine serves as a spiritual symbol of Japanese militarism in its war of aggression
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Case of Unocal Burma A landmark case The Unocal case is a breakthrough for foreigners trying to sue multinational corporations for their alleged collaboration with repressive regimes in human rights abuses. Work in progress at the Yadana pipeline project ... modern equivalent of slavery? Unocal Corporation‚ the California-based giant gas-and-petroleum corporation‚ will face trial in a United States court on charges of forced labour of Burmese people to build the $1.2 billion Yadana Gas Pipeline
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Post War Trials of WWII Justice can be defined as “the quality of being just; righteousness‚ equitableness‚ or moral rightness” (Dictionary.com). Many people are not well-educated about the trials that occurred after the second world war‚ even though they were responsible for permanently eliminating Nazism and punishing the other horrific world powers at the time. At the time‚ this also included Japan‚ who is another main focus of this essay. The postwar trials of WWII tried many criminals and sentenced
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Wages in Australia are currently determined by the interaction of demand and supply of labour in the labour markets. The wage rate is the equilibrium of demand and supply of labour. At the point‚ the amount of labour supplied is equal to the amount of labour demanded. If the real wage rate is above this point‚ then there is excess supply of labour‚ thus causing unemployment. The unemployed people would then be willing to work at a lower wage‚ hence put downward pressure on the wage rate which eventually
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Nanking Massacre 1. The Japanese invasion of China immediately before and during World War II lasted from the early 1930’s to 1945. During this dark period in modern Asian history‚ the Japanese military machine was motivated by an uncontrollable desire for aggression‚ expansion and imperialism. The brutalities and atrocities committed by the Japanese military in China and elsewhere in Asia finally ended with destruction on Japanese soil -- the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August
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Kendra 24 May 2013 Holocaust Essay War Crimes Trials War crimes trials are trials of persons charged with criminal violation of the laws and customs of war and related principles of international law. The records of the war crimes trials after World War 2 provide some of the most comprehensive formulations of the concept of war crimes. After the devastating amount of crime committed during World War 2‚ the law was the only way to seek justice on the accused war criminals. In order to seek
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foreign arbitral awards as also to define the law relating to conciliation and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. WHEREAS the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has adopted the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration in 1985: AND WHEREAS the General Assembly of the United Nations has recommended that all countries give due consideration to the said Model Law‚ in view of the desirability of uniformity of the law of arbitral procedures
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Doctrine of Competence-competence The proper allocation of responsibilities between courts and arbitral tribunals for resolving disputes concerning arbitral jurisdiction – disputes about whether the plaintiff’s claim ought to be decided by an arbitral tribunal or a court – has been one of the most complex and controversial question of modern arbitration law. Although there is broad agreement on one general proposition that arbitrators are empowered to rule on their own jurisdiction and then proceed
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1996- A Consultation Paper Introduction: 1. The Arbitration and Conciliation Act‚ 1996 enacted in 1996 is an Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to domestic arbitration‚ international commercial arbitration and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. Copy of the Act is annexed as Annexure-I. The Act is based on the Model Law adopted by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in 1985. The objects and basis of the said Act is to speedy disposal with least
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uniquely broad flexibility in designing arbitral proceedings. The elementary factor of all international arbitrations is that it is consensual. Simply‚ without an agreement to arbitrate‚ there will be no arbitration. Consent is fundamental in the arbitration process and begins from the very first decision to enter into an arbitration agreement[2]. In addition‚ the terms of the arbitration agreement between the parties plays a primary role in governing the arbitral proceedings[3]. The inclusion of
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