The International Enforcement Law Reporter is a monthly print and online journal covering news and trends in international enforcement law.
Since September 1985, the International Enforcement Law Reporter has analyzed the premier developments in both the substantive and procedural aspects of international enforcement law. Read by practitioners, academics, and politicians, the IELR is a valuable guide to the difficult and dynamic field of international law.
At its 23rd sitting held on October 12, 2023, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted Resolution and Recommendation on the humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. The debate as well as the Resolution and Recommendation were based on a Report prepared by the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons.
At its 22nd sitting held on October 11, 2023, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution and recommendation on the use of Pegasus and similar spyware for targeted surveillance by some states of their citizens. The debate as well as the resolution and recommendation were based on a Report prepared by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights.
On September 28, 2023, former Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and his defense minister Jose Carlos Sanches Berzain settled with the families of victims of extrajudicial killings by their administration in 2003. The settlement, which involved paying an undisclosed sum to the families of eight victims, resulted from a decade-long legal battle in U.S. courts under the Torture Victims Protection Act of 1991 (TVPA). This case represents the first time a foreign head of state has been held responsible for human rights abuses in U.S. civil courts.
On October 3, 2023, the United States Department of Justice announced the unsealing of eight indictments in the U.S. District Court for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, charging China-based companies and their employees with crimes concerning fentanyl and methamphetamine production, distribution of synthetic opioids and sales resulting from precursor chemicals, as well as associated money laundering.
Slowly foreign governments are joining the effort to curb illegal firearms trafficking from the United States. On October 4, 2023, the Dominican Republic requested the U.S. to curb smuggling of firearms to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
On September 27, 2023, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced the issuance of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to extend the deadline for certain reporting companies to file their initial beneficial ownership information (BOI) reports.
On October 2, 2023, the United Nations Security Council authorized deployment of a Multinational Security Support Mission, which Kenya will lead in close cooperation with the skeletal Government of Haiti, for an initial period of 12 months, with a review after nine.
On September 29, 2023, former Swiss banker Rolf Schnellmann was arraigned in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of York before Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang after Italy extradited him.
On October 3, 2023, the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE) released an alarming report warning that there is an overwhelming risk that human rights atrocities will continue in Ethiopia, and it is vital that independent investigations into the country’s dire human rights situation persist.
