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UN Report Pushes for ICC Prosecution of Islamic State for Genocide and War Crimes
April 01, 2015
A recently released report of the UN Human Rights Council is urging an International Criminal Court ("ICC") inquiry into actions by the Islamic State ("IS") which constitute genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, perpetrated under the banner of jihad, against Yezidis and Christians in Iraq.
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Islamic State Targets Syrian Children for Recruitment and Radicalization
April 01, 2015
The Islamic State ("IS") has undertaken a program targeting Syrian children displaced by IS violence and the civil war in Syria, using systematic recruitment and radicalization that relies on strict Islamist indoctrination and weapons training for eventual jihadi field operations.
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Western Sanctions Against Russia Help OIC Expansion in Geostrategically Important Central Asia
March 23, 2015
Euro-American economic sanctions imposed on Russia for its involvement in Ukraine's civil war have begun to produce geopolitical blowback, as Moscow policymakers are considering a turn to Islamic financial sources to substitute for closed access to international capital markets, a move that will deepen the political-economic influence and sharia-promotion strategies of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") in Russia and Central Asia.
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Controversy in Afghanistan Follows Woman's Stoning Death for Blasphemy Under Sharia Law
March 23, 2015
The death by stoning of a mentally disabled woman in Afghanistan's capital city by a vigilante mob that accused her of blasphemy against Islam has laid bare the continuing dominance of fundamentalist Islamist laws and values against international human rights norms, despite more than a decade of U.S.-led international programs for implementing rule-of-law governance in Afghanistan.
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IMF Confronts Global Expansion of Islamic Finance
March 23, 2015
The International Monetary Fund ("IMF") has launched several new working groups to explore the fiscal and monetary implications of the growing global presence of sharia-compliant/compatible products and practices, as well as to consider the implications of the growing penetration of Islamic finance and banking in many IMF member countries.
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