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UN SG urges protections for journalists’ rights

UN SG urges protections for journalists’ rights

November 2, 2015 02:06:03 pm

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged greater protection for journalists' rights and honored journalists and media workers killed in the line of duty as he marked the second observation of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes...

Federal appeals court refuses to block bulk phone data collection

Federal appeals court refuses to block bulk phone data collection

October 30, 2015 02:25:44 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday denied a motion by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to halt the bulk collection of phone records by the National Security Agency...

HRW: Morocco draft law in conflict with UN treaty on disabilities

HRW: Morocco draft law in conflict with UN treaty on disabilities

October 27, 2015 08:37:20 am

Human Rights Watch (HRW) sent Moroccan officials a letter Monday claiming that a draft framework law before the country's parliament is in conflict with obligations to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities...

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Watergate burglars arrested for DNC break-in

On June 17, 1972, James McCord, security director of President Richard Nixon's re-election committee, and four Cuban-Americans are arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. Learn more about the Watergate scandal.

South Africa repeals racial classification law

On June 17, 1991, South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act. Since its passage in 1950, the Act had required every South African to be racially classified at birth. These classifications, in turn, would determined the child's social and political rights for the rest of his or her life in South Africa. Learn more about the History of Apartheid in South Africa from Standford University.