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International commission recommends decriminalizing drugs
Jonathan Niznansky
November 22, 2016 10:17:15 am

A report released Monday by the Global Commission on Drug Policy recommends "no penalty whatsoever" for low-level possession and consumption drug offenses. The commission of 23, which includes former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, Virgin Group founder...

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News North Dakota files suit challenging new regulation governing discrimination in child transgender surgery
North Dakota files suit challenging new regulation governing discrimination in child transgender surgery
Jonathan Niznansky
November 15, 2016 07:00:00 am

OnMonday, The Becket Fund announced it had filed suit challenging a new Health and Human Services (HHS) regulation on behalf of North Dakota and several Catholic organizations. The suit, filed in federal district court...

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Colombia government, rebels reach new peace deal
Jonathan Niznansky
November 13, 2016 04:36:34 pm

The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) reached a peace agreement Saturday to end the guerrilla warfare that has been plaguing the country for more than five decades. Meeting in Havana, the two sides solidified a...

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Washington DC voters overhelmingly support statehood
Jonathan Niznansky
November 10, 2016 11:25:26 am

Voters in Washington, DC, on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of DC becoming the fifty-first US state. Advisory Referendum B asked voters if the DC Council should petition the US Congress to admit the state of "New Columbia"...

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UN report: UK violated disabled rights in welfare reform
Jonathan Niznansky
November 8, 2016 07:42:08 am

The UK has infringed upon the rights of disabled persons starting with welfare reforms in 2012 , according to a report issued Monday by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities . The...

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Nuremberg war crimes trials began

On October 18, 1945, the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals began. Read US prosecutor Robert H. Jackson's opening statement.

Women declared "Persons" in Canada

On October 18, 1929, The Privy Council of the United Kingdom declared that women were considered "persons" under the laws of Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada had held in Edwards v. Canada that women were not considered "persons" under Canada's governing law, the British North America Act. The Privy Council overturned this ruling, declaring "that the exclusion of women from all public offices is a relic of days more barbarous than ours. And to those who would ask why the word 'persons' should include females, the obvious answer is, why should it not?"

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