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News ICC prosecutor halts Darfur investigation
ICC prosecutor halts Darfur investigation
Jacqueline Jones
December 15, 2014 01:07:32 pm

International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told the UN Security Council Friday that her office is dropping its investigation into the situation in Darfur . According to Bensouda,...

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News Court rules officer’s mistake of law can still justify traffic stop
Court rules officer’s mistake of law can still justify traffic stop
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
December 15, 2014 11:46:15 am

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Monday in Heien v. North Carolina that a police officer's mistake of law can provide the individualized suspicion that the Fourth Amendment requires to justify a traffic...

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News Supreme Court rules on standard for removing case to federal court
Supreme Court rules on standard for removing case to federal court
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
December 15, 2014 10:39:21 am

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday in Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Company, LLC v. Owens that a defendant seeking removal to federal court must indicate only a plausible allegation that the amount in...

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News Families of Newtown shooting victims file lawsuit against gun distributor and store
Families of Newtown shooting victims file lawsuit against gun distributor and store
Kimberly Bennett
December 15, 2014 10:34:13 am

Families of victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Connecticut Monday, alleging that the manufacturer, distributor and seller of the rifle used in the shooting were...

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News Rights group asks ICC to investigate Nigeria presidential candidate
Rights group asks ICC to investigate Nigeria presidential candidate
Kimberly Bennett
December 15, 2014 09:55:34 am

The Nigerian human rights group Northern Coalition for Democracy and Justice (NCDJ) on Monday urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and charge presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari for post-election violence in 2011. The NCDJ...

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News Ohio officials urge Supreme Court to declare same-sex marriage bans constitutional
Ohio officials urge Supreme Court to declare same-sex marriage bans constitutional
Ashley Hogan
December 14, 2014 03:23:41 pm

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and State Solicitor Eric Murphy on Friday issued a asked the US Supreme Court to uphold the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decision declaring Ohio's...

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News Slovenia ex-PM temporarily released from prison during appeal
Slovenia ex-PM temporarily released from prison during appeal
Alison Sacriponte
December 14, 2014 12:52:28 pm

Former Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa was released from prison Friday until the country's highest court rules on the appeal of his corruption conviction. Jansa was convicted of corruption for soliciting bribes while signing a...

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News Egypt prosecutor refers 439 individuals to military tribunal over police deaths
Egypt prosecutor refers 439 individuals to military tribunal over police deaths
Jacqueline Jones
December 14, 2014 12:50:39 pm

Egypt's top prosecutor on Saturday referred 439 individuals to a military tribunal for the killing of three police officers last year. The group was composed of about 139 Islamists from the southern province of Minya and 300...

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News 260 China rights lawyers protest detention of fellow lawyer
260 China rights lawyers protest detention of fellow lawyer
Alison Sacriponte
December 14, 2014 12:19:54 pm

Two hundred sixty Chinese lawyers signed an open letter condemning police action in the northeastern province of Jilin where a lawyer was detained after invoking the constitutional rights of free speech and religion in court. The lawyer, Zhang Keke,...

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News ICC orders former Ivory Coast presidential ally to stand trial for crimes against humanity
ICC orders former Ivory Coast presidential ally to stand trial for crimes against humanity
Colleen Mallick
December 13, 2014 12:53:34 pm

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday confirmed four charges of crimes against humanity against Charles Ble Goude, and committed the ally of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo to trial at...

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

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