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News China criticizes US human rights record in annual report
China criticizes US human rights record in annual report
Gabriel Haboubi
March 8, 2007 10:55:00 am

China accused the US of numerous human rights abuses on Thursday in its Human Rights Record of the US in 2006 , the Chinese state response to US criticism in Tuesday's publication of the...

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News US again refuses to run for UN rights council seat
US again refuses to run for UN rights council seat
Gabriel Haboubi
March 7, 2007 12:22:00 pm

The US State Department announced Tuesday that once again the United States will not run for a seat on the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council . The US said...

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News Italy physician cleared in right-to-die case
Italy physician cleared in right-to-die case
Gabriel Haboubi
March 7, 2007 11:27:00 am

Italian patient's rights group Associazione Lucacoscioni said Tuesday that prosecutors have cleared anesthesiologist Dr. Mario Riccio, the physician being investigated for assisting in the December death of...

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News Reporters barred from status hearings for ‘high-value’ Guantanamo detainees
Reporters barred from status hearings for ‘high-value’ Guantanamo detainees
Gabriel Haboubi
March 7, 2007 10:18:00 am

Reporters will not be allowed to attend hearings that will determine if the 14 "high-value" terror suspects who were transferred to Guantanamo Bay from secret CIA prisons last September are "enemy combatants,"...

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News Swiss pathologists say suicide likely cause of death in Guantanamo case
Swiss pathologists say suicide likely cause of death in Guantanamo case
Gabriel Haboubi
March 2, 2007 04:50:00 pm

A team of Swiss forensic pathologists from Institute of Legal Medicine at Lausanne University Friday announced the results of an autopsy on deceased Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ali Abdullah , concluding...

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News Sixth Circuit rejects Ohio lethal injection challenge
Sixth Circuit rejects Ohio lethal injection challenge
Gabriel Haboubi
March 2, 2007 04:05:00 pm

A three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit threw out a lawsuit challenging Ohio's death penalty procedure Friday on the grounds that the claim was filed too late....

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News Washington Senate passes domestic partnership bill
Washington Senate passes domestic partnership bill
Gabriel Haboubi
March 1, 2007 09:17:00 pm

The Washington State Senate passed a domestic partnership bill (SB 5336) Thursday which would establish a domestic partner registry, giving same-sex couples enhanced rights including inheritance, hospital visitation, and the power to authorize...

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News EU launches new fundamental rights agency
EU launches new fundamental rights agency
Gabriel Haboubi
March 1, 2007 08:36:00 pm

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) officially launched Thursday, taking over and expanding the responsibilities of the former European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) ....

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News Japan PM denies WWII ‘comfort women’ were coerced
Japan PM denies WWII ‘comfort women’ were coerced
Gabriel Haboubi
March 1, 2007 07:55:00 pm

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday denied that the Japanese military forced Korean and Chinese women into prostitution during World War II, echoing sentiments by Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso ...

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News All sides violating human rights in Darfur conflict: Red Cross chief
All sides violating human rights in Darfur conflict: Red Cross chief
Gabriel Haboubi
February 23, 2007 05:03:00 pm

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Jakob Kellenberger told reporters Friday that all sides of the conflict in the Sudan are violating international humanitarian law . The statement came after Kellenberger completed...

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India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster

On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court. Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.

Seventeenth Amendment ratified

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