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News Bangladesh war crimes tribunal indicts 89-year-old opposition leader
Bangladesh war crimes tribunal indicts 89-year-old opposition leader
Dan Taglioli
May 14, 2012 01:56:44 pm

The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh (ICTB) on Sunday indicted a former opposition leader for alleged human rights atrocities committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan. Ghulam Azam, 89, is the former head...

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News LRA commander captured by Uganda military
LRA commander captured by Uganda military
Dan Taglioli
May 14, 2012 12:24:16 pm

Ugandan military forces Saturday captured one of the highest leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) , the rebel militia group headed by alleged Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony . The Uganda People's Defence...

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News UN human rights chief comments on visit to South Sudan
UN human rights chief comments on visit to South Sudan
Dan Taglioli
May 14, 2012 11:00:52 am

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday remarked on her visit to South Sudan, praising the country's development and calling on the new nation to commit to a human rights infrastructure of...

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News NATO has failed to acknowledge civilian deaths in Libya: HRW
NATO has failed to acknowledge civilian deaths in Libya: HRW
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
May 14, 2012 10:17:37 am

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should acknowledge civilian casualties from air strikes in Libya and investigate possible unlawful attacks , Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Monday. In a 76-page report , "Unacknowledged...

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News Egypt court rules presidential elections can go forward on schedule
Egypt court rules presidential elections can go forward on schedule
Keith Herting
May 13, 2012 05:21:22 pm

Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court on Saturday overturned the ruling of a lower court that would have postponed the upcoming presidential elections. Last Wednesday, a provincial court in the town of Benha ruled to suspend the elections following alleged...

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Moldova urged to adopt anti-discrimination law
Keith Herting
May 13, 2012 04:18:09 pm

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday implored the Moldovan government to adopt a comprehensive anti-discrimination law . The proposed law, in development since 2008, is seen as a large...

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News Sri Lanka releases information on thousands detained since civil war
Sri Lanka releases information on thousands detained since civil war
Jerry Votava
May 13, 2012 12:29:06 pm

The Sri Lanka Police on Sunday released the names of thousands of people being held under that country's anti-terror laws. The release comes three years after the end of the country's 26-year civil war with...

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Chile high court blocks new hydroelectric dam in Patagonia
Jerry Votava
May 13, 2012 12:03:46 pm

The Supreme Court of Chile on Friday issued a ruling preventing the construction of a new hydroelectric dam in Patagonia. The dam was one of three hydroelectric plants proposed by Energia Austral , a...

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News Federal appeals court revives lawsuits against Abu Ghraib contractors
Federal appeals court revives lawsuits against Abu Ghraib contractors
Keith Herting
May 13, 2012 07:58:44 am

A 14-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled 12-2 Friday that the earlier dismissal of lawsuits against two Abu Ghraib contractors on the...

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Ninth Circuit hears arguments in no-fly list challenge
Keith Herting
May 12, 2012 05:07:24 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard arguments Friday from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) which is appealing a dismissal of a challenge over the no-fly list maintained by the Transportation...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Bank of England granted political independence

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the Bank. This policy was statutized in the subsequent Bank of England Act of 1998 gave the Bank independent control of British monetary policy effective June 1, 1998. Read the Bank of England Act of 1998.

Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States and prohibiting courts from bestowing US citizenship on Chinese. Connecticut Senator Joseph Hawley spoke out against the Act in these words: Let the proposed statue be read 100 years hence, dug out of the dust of ages and forgotten as it will be except for a line of sneer by some historian, and ask the young man not well read in the history of this country what was the reason for excluding these men and he would not be able to find it in the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its successors were abolished in 1943 at the insistence of President Franklin Roosevelt.

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