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News Supreme Court denies review in Planned Parenthood documents case
Supreme Court denies review in Planned Parenthood documents case
Justin Cosgrove
November 16, 2015 04:04:31 pm

The US Supreme Court denied review in New Hampshire Right to Life v. Department of Health & Human Services on Monday. The anti-abortion group petitioned the court to clarify Exemption 4...

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News UN rights experts express concern over latest violence in Israel
UN rights experts express concern over latest violence in Israel
Alexis Wheeler
November 16, 2015 02:10:56 pm

UN Special Rapporteurs Makarim Wibisono and Christof Heyns expressed concern Monday over ongoing violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Israel. This latest phase of conflict began in October and has claimed an...

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News UN: Islamic State brutality increasing in Central Libya
UN: Islamic State brutality increasing in Central Libya
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
November 16, 2015 12:38:56 pm

The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) released a 37-page report on Monday calling on those with ground-level control to declare that recent acts by the Islamic State (IS) and other militants will not be tolerated and "to...

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News Cambodia opposition leader removed from National Assembly
Cambodia opposition leader removed from National Assembly
Brittany Felder
November 16, 2015 11:19:56 am

Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy was removed as a member of the country's National Assembly on Monday, paving the way for his arrest in connection with a defamation case following his return from South Korea. The National...

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News Bahrain court rejects appeals of two convicted in 2014 bombings
Bahrain court rejects appeals of two convicted in 2014 bombings
Brittany Felder
November 16, 2015 10:30:06 am

A Bahraini court on Monday rejected the death sentence appeals of two men convicted in a 2014 bombing that killed three police officers. The court's decision was announced by prosecutor Nayyaf Yusuf. The men, Hassan Mosa and...

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News HRW: Saudi labor reforms fail to protect domestic workers
HRW: Saudi labor reforms fail to protect domestic workers
Jacqueline Jones
November 15, 2015 02:02:31 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Sunday that Saudi Arabia's new labor laws have helped to stop abuses of migrant workers, but the reforms fail to meet the needs of domestic workers. The 38 amendments [amendments,...

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News Amnesty condemns Beirut bombing as ‘appalling disregard for human life’
Amnesty condemns Beirut bombing as ‘appalling disregard for human life’
Jacqueline Jones
November 15, 2015 01:17:03 pm

Amnesty International (AI) on Friday condemned the bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, as an "appalling disregard for human life." The attack killed at least 41 people in the capital of Lebanon. The Islamic State (IS) [JURIST...

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News Utah judge reverses order denying foster rights to same-sex couple
Utah judge reverses order denying foster rights to same-sex couple
Steven Wildberger
November 15, 2015 12:48:32 pm

Following significant criticism, Utah Juvenile Court judge Scott Johansen on Friday amended an earlier ruling to allow a same-sex couple to remain foster parents. Johansen had initially ruled against married women April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce...

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News Arrests made in connection to France terrorist attacks
Arrests made in connection to France terrorist attacks
Steven Wildberger
November 15, 2015 12:09:30 pm

Paris' chief prosecutor François Molins on Saturday reported three arrests connected to Friday's terrorist attacks. Organized into three teams, terrorists reportedly connected to the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) [PBS...

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News ICC grants first early release to war criminal from DRC
ICC grants first early release to war criminal from DRC
Bradley McAllister
November 14, 2015 01:11:54 pm

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday granted early release to convicted war criminal Germain Katanga from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A three-judge panel of the Appeals Chamber of...

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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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