Mexican President Felipe Calderon has signed a climate change bill that will introduce sweeping environmental reform. The bill requires the country to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent by 2020, requires 35 percent of...
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The Mexican legislature passed a sweeping climate change bill on Thursday 128-10 in the Chamber of Deputies and unanimously in the Senate . The bill requires the country to reduce carbon dioxide...
Report: US sending Afghan detainees to prisons known for torture
The US has sent at least 11 detainees to a facility in Afghanistan that has been shown to torture prisoners, two human rights groups reported Saturday. The Open Society Institute of New York and the Afghan Independent...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Gail Davidson, Executive Director of Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, says that the Supreme Court of Canada was simply wrong in taking the extraordinary step of denying Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr the remedy ordered by the...
Federal court rejects Bush appeal of order to process visitor log request
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rejected a Bush administration appeal against a 2007 order requiring that White House visitor logs be released in compliance with...