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News Algeria should use elections to improve freedom of association laws: UN
Algeria should use elections to improve freedom of association laws: UN
Jaimie Cremeans
May 5, 2012 10:20:53 am

UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly and Peaceful Assembly and Association Maina Kiai said on Friday that Algeria should use its upcoming legislative elections to address concerns about inadequate freedoms of expression...

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News Russia gay activist first to be convicted under controversial city ordinance
Russia gay activist first to be convicted under controversial city ordinance
Jaimie Cremeans
May 4, 2012 02:27:13 pm

Prominent Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alekeyev became the first to be convicted Friday under a St. Petersburg city ordinance that prohibits the spreading "homosexual propaganda" to minors. Alekeyev was arrested last month for picketing in front...

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News Austria court rules laws not comforming with EU rights charter are unconstitutional
Austria court rules laws not comforming with EU rights charter are unconstitutional
Jaimie Cremeans
May 4, 2012 12:13:06 pm

The Austrian Constitutional Court ruled Friday that the country's laws must not only conform to its own constitution but also to the EU Charter of Fundamental...

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News Ukraine ex-Prime Minister Tymoshenko returned to prison from clinic
Ukraine ex-Prime Minister Tymoshenko returned to prison from clinic
Jaimie Cremeans
April 22, 2012 02:39:05 pm

Ukraine's ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was returned to prison on Sunday after being sent to a clinic Friday for medical treatment. Tymoshenko has refused to be treated by the Ukrainian doctors at her prison for back problems...

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News UN to investigate rights of Native Americans
UN to investigate rights of Native Americans
Jaimie Cremeans
April 22, 2012 02:04:16 pm

UN Special Rapporteur on Rights of Indigenous Peoples James Anaya will visit the United States from April 23 to May 4 to launch the UN's first ever investigation into the rights situation of Native Americans. Anaya will...

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News Alabama House passes new immigration law
Alabama House passes new immigration law
Jaimie Cremeans
April 20, 2012 02:27:04 pm

The Alabama House of Representatives on Thursday passed changes to the state's immigration law , said to be one of the toughest in the nation. The revised bill, passed 64-34 , comes in response...

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News Uighur Guantanamo detainees released to El Salvador
Uighur Guantanamo detainees released to El Salvador
Jaimie Cremeans
April 20, 2012 01:22:42 pm

The Pentagon announced on Thursday that two Uighur detainees were released from the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay to be transferred to El Salvador, where they have chosen to resettle. They...

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HRW: Congo president should arrest general wanted by ICC
Jaimie Cremeans
April 15, 2012 02:34:23 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday that Congo President Joseph Kabila should immediately arrest General Bosco Ntaganda and deliver him to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to face charges of enlisting children and using them...

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News Maldives police charge former president over arrest of chief criminal judge
Maldives police charge former president over arrest of chief criminal judge
Jaimie Cremeans
April 15, 2012 01:07:25 pm

The Maldives Police Service on Sunday sent to the Prosecutor General's Office the case of the arrest of Criminal Court Chief Judge Abdulla Mohamed, in which the police filed charges against former president Mohamed...

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News UN counterterrorism official criticizes US court decision on rendition information
UN counterterrorism official criticizes US court decision on rendition information
Jaimie Cremeans
April 13, 2012 02:04:29 pm

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Ben Emmerson on Thursday expressed regret over a US court decision denying Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by a member of the UK...

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

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