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News Mali coup leader agrees to return constitutional rule
Mali coup leader agrees to return constitutional rule
Jamie Davis
April 7, 2012 10:39:04 am

Coup leader Amadou Haya Sanogo, who took control of Mali last month, on Friday signed an agreement in which he agreed to return constitutional power to the country. The coup, headed by Sanogo took power over...

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News Russia gay rights activists arrested for violating new law
Russia gay rights activists arrested for violating new law
Jamie Davis
April 7, 2012 10:07:17 am

Two Russian gay rights activists were arrested in St. Petersburg on Thursday for violating a new law banning promotion of homosexuality to minors that became effective last month . The two activists were arrested for picketing against the...

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News Former Ukraine PM allowed to receive medical treatment outside of jail
Former Ukraine PM allowed to receive medical treatment outside of jail
Jamie Davis
April 2, 2012 01:56:26 pm

Ukraine's Office of the Prosecutor General on Monday granted a request for former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to receive medical treatment outside of the jail in...

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News France approves first extradition to Rwanda
France approves first extradition to Rwanda
Jamie Davis
March 31, 2012 10:59:06 am

A French court in the town of Rouen decided that French-Rwandan citizen Claude Muhayimana can be sent to Rwanda to face charges concerning his involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide , reports said on Friday. An international arrest...

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News UN rights office urges Chile to pass anti-discrimination law
UN rights office urges Chile to pass anti-discrimination law
Jamie Davis
March 31, 2012 10:16:16 am

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday urged the Chilean government to pass a new law aimed to protect its citizens from discrimination based on their sexual and gender identities. Spokesperson...

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News UN rights decries enforced disappearance as one of the worst crimes
UN rights decries enforced disappearance as one of the worst crimes
Jamie Davis
March 26, 2012 01:58:09 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human RightsNavi Pillay on Monday cited enforced disappearances as one of the most heinous crimes during her opening statement to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances. Pillay complimented the committee for focusing part...

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News Iraq police officers arrested after detainees escape prison
Iraq police officers arrested after detainees escape prison
Jamie Davis
March 24, 2012 11:01:01 am

More than 20 Iraqi police officers were arrested and face interrogation Saturday following the escape of 19 detainees from a temporary prison in Iraq. The group of escapees, who were being held at the al-Tasfirat prison in the city...

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News Canada high court orders judges to consider Aboriginal history when sentencing
Canada high court orders judges to consider Aboriginal history when sentencing
Jamie Davis
March 24, 2012 10:33:55 am

The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday issued a decision requiring sentencing judges to consider the history of oppression that Aboriginal offenders may have experienced when determining appropriate sentences. The court determined that sentencing judges should...

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News Italy high court recognizes right of same-sex couples to have ‘family life’
Italy high court recognizes right of same-sex couples to have ‘family life’
Jamie Davis
March 17, 2012 09:50:18 am

The Italian Supreme Court on Friday recognized same-sex couple's right to have a family life after it denied a same-sex couple's right to have their foreign marriage recognized in the country. The ruling is expected...

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News UN human rights chief calls for fair Guinea-Bissau presidential election
UN human rights chief calls for fair Guinea-Bissau presidential election
Jamie Davis
March 17, 2012 09:11:17 am

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged the people of Guinea-Bissau Friday to ensure that the country's upcoming presidential election is free and fair and warned that any violence during the election...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Gorbachev becomes USSR leader

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. He soon announced that he would hold arms-reduction negotiations in Geneva with the United States. Gorbachev also used his tenure to liberalize the economy and social structure of the USSR, eventually leading to the abatement of the Soviet Union. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Read documents and interviews from the 1990 USA-USSR Summit.

Confederate Constitution adopted

On March 11, 1861, seven former US states adopted the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, which closely followed the language, if not necessarily the purport, of the original US Constitution. Section 9 (4) of the Confederate Constitution read "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed," enshrining the right to own slaves as fundamental law.

ICC holds first meeting

The war crimes court known as the International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in its first batch of judges on March 11, 2003. The meeting took place eight months after the ratification of the court's Rome Statute. Then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said of the occasion: It has taken mankind many years to reach this moment. By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these 11 men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures and legal traditions, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective conscience. Learn more about the work of the ICC.  

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