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News UN rights expert calls for next secretary-general to eliminate tax havens
UN rights expert calls for next secretary-general to eliminate tax havens
Steven Wildberger
October 22, 2016 10:11:43 am

UN civil rights expert Alfred de Zayas on Friday called on incoming secretary-general Antonio Guterres to host an international conference on phasing out offshore havens to force billionaires and "kleptocrats" to...

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News Mexico judge rejects appeals of ‘El Chapo’ extradition to US
Mexico judge rejects appeals of ‘El Chapo’ extradition to US
Matthew Santiago
October 21, 2016 04:42:15 pm

A Mexican judge on Thursday rejected five appeals intended to prevent the extradition of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán to the US for criminal charges. A previous judge had suspended Guzmán's extradition in May, but the...

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News South Africa announces intent to withdraw from ICC
South Africa announces intent to withdraw from ICC
Matthew Santiago
October 21, 2016 03:45:49 pm

South Africa announced on Friday that the country will officially withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The government originally expressed such intentions last year when South Africa refused to act on the ICC's arrest...

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News Brazil police arrest former house speaker in corruption scheme
Brazil police arrest former house speaker in corruption scheme
Miracle Jones
October 21, 2016 12:54:54 pm

The Federal Police of Brazil on Wednesday arrested former House speaker Eduardo Cunha for his alleged participation in an embezzlement scheme. Cunha, who is most known for leading the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff [BBC...

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News UN rights chief terms bombing of Aleppo ‘crimes of historic proportions’
UN rights chief terms bombing of Aleppo ‘crimes of historic proportions’
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
October 21, 2016 12:42:13 pm

UN High Commissioner for of Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein on Friday expressed outrage over the human rights crisis in Syria, stating that, "he violations and abuses suffered by people across the country, including the siege...

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News Federal court blocks Mississippi law disqualifying Medicaid benefits for non-theraupeautic abortions
Federal court blocks Mississippi law disqualifying Medicaid benefits for non-theraupeautic abortions
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
October 21, 2016 11:35:33 am

Judge Daniel P. Jordan III of the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (Northern Division) on Thursday permanently enjoined the state of Mississippi from "enforcing, threatening to enforce, or otherwise applying the provisions...

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News Federal appeals court upholds conviction of Osama bin Laden’s personal assistant
Federal appeals court upholds conviction of Osama bin Laden’s personal assistant
Justin Cosgrove
October 21, 2016 11:20:45 am

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a conspiracy conviction of the former personal assistant to Osama bin Laden. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that a military...

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Federal appeals court denies North Carolina early voting motion
Miracle Jones
October 21, 2016 10:55:12 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied an emergency motion on Wednesday from multiple counties in North Carolina to extend the hours of early voting. The motion ...

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Federal judge reopens voter registration in Virginia
Justin Cosgrove
October 21, 2016 10:04:11 am

A federal judge on Thursday ordered voter registration in Virginia to be reopened through midnight Friday, October 21. US District Judge Claude Hilton for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia made this...

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News UN rights expert urges Sri Lanka to protect minorities
UN rights expert urges Sri Lanka to protect minorities
Brittany Felder
October 21, 2016 10:03:54 am

The UN Independent Expert on minority issues, Rita Izsák-Ndiaye , on Thursday urged the Sri Lankan government to better protect minorities following the civil war. Izsák-Ndiaye advised that for true change to take place a concerted...

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European Court ruled against hitting schoolchildren in the UK

On February 25, 1982, in Campbell & Cosans v. The United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that parents can prevent teachers in the United Kingdom from striking their schoolchildren. At the time of the court's decision, the UK was the only Western European nation that permitted corporal punishment in schools.

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