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News UN rights chief calls for greater accountability in business
UN rights chief calls for greater accountability in business
Matthew Pomy
December 5, 2012 09:58:15 am

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay addressed the growing issue of global business' role in gross human rights abuses in a statement on Tuesday. In addressing the Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights,...

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News Federal appeals court upholds mobile-data roaming rule
Federal appeals court upholds mobile-data roaming rule
Maureen Cosgrove
December 5, 2012 09:56:50 am

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday upheld a federal rule requiring mobile-data providers to offer roaming agreements to other providers on "commercially reasonable" terms. In April 2011 the...

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News Federal judge refuses to block California sexual orientation change therapy ban
Federal judge refuses to block California sexual orientation change therapy ban
Keith Herting
December 5, 2012 09:51:20 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of California on Tuesday refused to issue an injunction to block a pending law preventing mental health providers from engaging in sexual orientation change...

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News Iran human rights lawyer ends hunger strike
Iran human rights lawyer ends hunger strike
Maureen Cosgrove
December 5, 2012 09:02:04 am

Iranian lawyer and prominent human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh on Tuesday ended a 49-day hunger strike in protest of her prison conditions and a travel ban imposed on her family. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments on Medicare, Clean Water Act
Supreme Court hears arguments on Medicare, Clean Water Act
Julia Zebley
December 5, 2012 08:51:06 am

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Tuesday. In Sebelius v. Auburn Regional Medical Center the court heard arguments on whether a 180-day statutory time limit for...

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News Supreme Court rules government not immune under takings clause for temporary man-made floods
Supreme Court rules government not immune under takings clause for temporary man-made floods
Julia Zebley
December 5, 2012 07:28:30 am

The US Supreme Court released a unanimous opinion Tuesday in Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States on the Federal government's immunity under the Takings Clause of the Fifth...

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News Federal judge blocks California law banning sexual orientation change therapy
Federal judge blocks California law banning sexual orientation change therapy
Alison Sacriponte
December 4, 2012 02:06:14 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of California on Monday temporarily blocked California from enforcing a new law that prohibits mental health providers from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts...

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News ICTY upholds life sentence of Bosnian Serb commander
ICTY upholds life sentence of Bosnian Serb commander
Addison Morris
December 4, 2012 01:13:54 pm

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday upheld the life sentence Milan Lukic, a Bosnian Serb commander who was sentenced to life in prison for crimes that include burning more than...

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News AI: gross human rights abuses committed during conflict in Yemen
AI: gross human rights abuses committed during conflict in Yemen
Julie Deisher-Edwards
December 4, 2012 12:47:49 pm

Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday identified a series of gross human rights abuses committed by al Qaeda affiliates and Yemen's government forces during the 2011–2012 conflict over control of the country's southern region of Abyan....

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News Sri Lankan judges demand impartial inquiry into charges against chief justice
Sri Lankan judges demand impartial inquiry into charges against chief justice
Peter Snyder
December 4, 2012 12:33:46 pm

More than 300 of Sri Lanka's judges met in the capital Colombo on Monday to demand an impartial inquiry into charges against the nation's Supreme Court chief justice. The judges issued a statement in which...

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Nuremberg war crimes trials began

On October 18, 1945, the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals began. Read US prosecutor Robert H. Jackson's opening statement.

Women declared "Persons" in Canada

On October 18, 1929, The Privy Council of the United Kingdom declared that women were considered "persons" under the laws of Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada had held in Edwards v. Canada that women were not considered "persons" under Canada's governing law, the British North America Act. The Privy Council overturned this ruling, declaring "that the exclusion of women from all public offices is a relic of days more barbarous than ours. And to those who would ask why the word 'persons' should include females, the obvious answer is, why should it not?"

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