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News Trafficking in Persons: Global Patterns [UNODC]
Trafficking in Persons: Global Patterns [UNODC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 24, 2006 08:16:00 pm

Trafficking in Persons: Global Patterns, United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, April 24, 2006 [criticizing the efforts of countries around the world as ineffective in blocking the flow of people smuggled into countries, many of whom are sexually exploited...

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News Court-martial begins for UK soldiers charged in Iraqi civilian death
Court-martial begins for UK soldiers charged in Iraqi civilian death
Katerina Ossenova
April 24, 2006 08:11:00 pm

Legal arguments began in Colchester, England, Monday in the court-martrial trial of four British soldiers accused of killing an Iraqi prisoner in the southern Iraqi city of Basra in May 2003. The four soldiers are accused of forcing Ahmed...

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News Physicists letter to President Bush on the 'nuclear option' and the NPT
Physicists letter to President Bush on the 'nuclear option' and the NPT
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 24, 2006 08:05:00 pm

Text of a letter on the "nuclear option" to President George W. Bush from thirteen leading US physicists, including five Nobel Laureates, April 17, 2006 [urging that the US not consider using tactical nuclear weapons against Iran in violation of...

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News Bush rejects mass deportations of illegals in new pitch for immigration reform bill
Bush rejects mass deportations of illegals in new pitch for immigration reform bill
Katerina Ossenova
April 24, 2006 08:05:00 pm

President Bush Monday rejected the option of deportation for the 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the US, asking Congress to keep in mind “that we are talking about human beings, decent human beings” as it prepared to take...

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News Lethal Injections in the United States [HRW]
Lethal Injections in the United States [HRW]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 24, 2006 07:41:00 pm

So Long as They Die: Lethal Injections in the United States, Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2006 [calling the use of lethal injections by US authorities "incompetent, negligent, and irresponsible" and urging the federal government and the 37 out of...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments on warrantless police entry in emergency
Supreme Court hears arguments on warrantless police entry in emergency
Katerina Ossenova
April 24, 2006 06:59:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in Brigham County v. Stewart , a case in which the Court will clarify the type of emergency situation required...

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News Judge dismisses challenge to military ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy
Judge dismisses challenge to military ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy
Katerina Ossenova
April 24, 2006 06:01:00 pm

A federal judge in Boston Monday dismissed a suit filed in 2004 by twelve members of the US armed forces represented by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) challenging the military’s “Don’t ask,...

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News Lay takes stand in Enron trial, says collapse of company painful
Lay takes stand in Enron trial, says collapse of company painful
Christopher G. Anderson
April 24, 2006 03:36:00 pm

Kenneth Lay , former CEO and founder of Enron , told a jury Monday that the collapse of the company in 2001 has caused him "hurt and destruction and pain" on...

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News Philippines lawmakers charged with conspiracy to kill president
Philippines lawmakers charged with conspiracy to kill president
Krista-Ann Staley
April 24, 2006 03:36:00 pm

Forty-nine leftist Philippines politicians, including six current lawmakers and former Senator Gregorio Honasan , face charges of rebellion for allegedly conspiring with the Communist Party of the Philippines to kill and replace President Gloria Macapagal...

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News Moussaoui sentence now up to jury
Moussaoui sentence now up to jury
Christopher G. Anderson
April 24, 2006 02:56:00 pm

The jury in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui began deliberations Monday on whether to spare his life or to execute him for conspiring in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 . At the close...

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World Intellectual Property Organization created

On April 26, 1970, the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) went into force, creating WIPO. WIPO is a United Nations agency that works to promote intellectual property rights in the international community. Today, 184 nations have signed the convention.

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US soldier arrested for killing John Wilkes Booth

On April 26, 1865, Sergeant Thomas P. Corbett was placed under technical arrest for killing John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.

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