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News Obama signs bill ‘clarifying’ equal pay protections
Obama signs bill ‘clarifying’ equal pay protections
Andrew Morgan
January 29, 2009 12:01:00 pm

US President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 into law Thursday, extending the deadline for employees to sue their employers for unequal pay discrimination. The law's "clarification" of equal pay...

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News Indonesia to seek access to Guantanamo detainee suspected of Bali bombing
Indonesia to seek access to Guantanamo detainee suspected of Bali bombing
Andrew Morgan
January 27, 2009 04:54:00 pm

Indonesian police plan to request access to suspected al Qaeda bomber Ridhuan Isammudin (a.k.a. Hambali), currently held at Guantanamo Bay . A spokesman for the Indonesian National Police said that they...

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News UN rights commissioner calls for restraint in DRC conflict
UN rights commissioner calls for restraint in DRC conflict
Andrew Morgan
January 27, 2009 03:49:00 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday urged participants in the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to respect human rights and...

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News Rwanda ex-justice minister sentenced to life in prison on genocide charges
Rwanda ex-justice minister sentenced to life in prison on genocide charges
Andrew Morgan
January 20, 2009 03:57:00 pm

A court in the Rwandan capital of Kigali on Tuesday sentenced former justice minister Agnes Ntamabyariro to life in prison for inciting violence during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . The Court of First Instance of Nyarugenge found [BBC...

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News Guantanamo military commission hearings for alleged 9/11 conspirators proceed
Guantanamo military commission hearings for alleged 9/11 conspirators proceed
Andrew Morgan
January 19, 2009 04:31:00 pm

Pre-trial hearings for five men detained at Guantanamo Bay as 9/11 conspirators proceeded on Monday despite the Pentagon's chief prosecutor's earlier request that they be delayed. Army Colonel Stephen Henley , the...

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ICJ rules US violated court order by executing Mexican national
Andrew Morgan
January 19, 2009 02:58:00 pm

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Monday ruled that the United States violated the court's March 2004 order when the state of Texas executed José Ernesto Medellin Rojas in August...

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ICTR prosecutor appeals 15 year sentence for Hutu singer
Andrew Morgan
January 14, 2009 07:32:00 am

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) prosecutor Justice Hassan B. Jallow on Tuesday appealed the 15-year sentence given to popular Rwandan singer-songwriter Simon Bikindi . Jallow appealed...

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New Bangladesh government committed to restoring 1972 constitution: justice minister
Andrew Morgan
January 9, 2009 08:25:00 am

Bangladeshi Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shafique Ahmed on Thursday declared his government's desire to restore Bangladesh's 1972 constitution . The move signals an intent to return to the four principles of...

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China court sentences democracy advocate to six-year prison term
Andrew Morgan
January 9, 2009 07:22:00 am

A Chinese court on Wednesday sentenced democracy advocate Wang Rongqing to six years in jail on charges of subverting state power. The 65-year-old activist, who has pressed for democracy since the 1970s, was tried in Hangzhou City...

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Andrew Morgan
January 8, 2009 09:17:00 am

The Chinese government on Wednesday warned that pressing war crimes charges against Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in the International Criminal Court (ICC) would have "disastrous" consequences on the implementation of a...

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Nuremberg race laws went into effect in Nazi Germany

On September 15, 1935, the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany became effective, racially defining German citizenship and making Jews outcasts. The Reich Health Office issued the following chart in 1936 to assist in ascertaining the "admissibility of marriage between Aryans and non-Aryans." White circles represented on the chart are "pure Germans" while the circles with black indicate the proportion of Jewish heritage. Review the Nuremberg Laws on Citizenship, German Blood and German Honor, and Hereditary Health.

KKK bombs Alabama Church

On September 15, 1963, members of the Klu Klux Klan bombed a predominantly African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. The blast at the 16th Street Baptist Church killed four young girls and injured twenty other people. Despite an investigation by the FBI, no one was charged with responsibility for the crime until Robert Chambliss was convicted of murder in 1977. His accomplices, Thomas Blaton, Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry, were not tried and convicted until about twenty-five years later. Learn more about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing and the trials of Blanton and Cherry from NPR.

Nuremberg Laws went into effect in Nazi Germany

On September 15, 1935, the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany became effective, racially defining German citizenship and making Jews outcasts. The Reich Health Office issued the following chart in 1936 to assist in ascertaining the "admissibility of marriage between Aryans and non-Aryans": white circles represent on the chart are "pure Germans", while the circles with black indicate the proportion of Jewish blood.

Review the Laws for Protection of the German Race on Citizenship, German Blood and German Honor, and Hereditary Health.

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