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Afghan hostage-takers focus on release of 26 prisoners

November 7, 2004 11:21:00 AM

The Taliban-related group holding 3 UN workers hostage in Afghanistan has agreed to forego other demands relating to their release in exchange for the release of 26 prisoners, some believed to be held at Guantanamo Bay. A list was...

UN calls on US to define legal status of Afghan, Iraqi detainees

November 6, 2004 03:11:00 PM

Concluding its 82nd session in Geneva, the UN Human Rights Committee asked the United States on Friday to delineate the legal status of inmates in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and Iraq. The US, which has been sharply criticized by human...

Afghan judicial reform report [ICG]

January 28, 2003 02:27:00 PM

Afghanistan: Judicial Reform and Transitional Justice, International Crisis Group, January 28, 2003 . Read the full text of the report here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Supreme court overturns racially restrictive covenants

On May 3, 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that racially-restrictive covenants violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, even covenants between private individuals. In Shelley v. Kraemer, the Court overturned a covenant among members of a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri that restricted home sales to only white families.

World Press Freedom day

May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. On May 3, 1845, Macon B. Allen, the first African American to practice law in the United States, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. Learn more about Allen's admission.