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News Australia to amend laws to end same-sex discrimination
Australia to amend laws to end same-sex discrimination
Katerina Ossenova
April 30, 2008 10:29:00 am

The Australian government will introduce legislation to amend over 100 federal laws to remove discrimination against same-sex couples , Australian Attorney General Robert McClelland said Wednesday. The legislation, which will be introduced during...

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News Senate committee backs measure to block CIA use of waterboarding
Senate committee backs measure to block CIA use of waterboarding
Katerina Ossenova
April 30, 2008 09:53:00 am

The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted Tuesday to restrict Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) interrogators to techniques explicitly authorized by the military, approving a measure that would effectively prevent the CIA from using waterboarding...

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News Turkish parliament amends state slander law
Turkish parliament amends state slander law
Katerina Ossenova
April 30, 2008 09:17:00 am

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey voted Wednesday in favor of restricting the controversial Article 301 of the country's penal code , which makes "insulting the Turkish identity"...

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News Former Russia nuclear minister released from prison
Former Russia nuclear minister released from prison
Katerina Ossenova
April 17, 2008 03:41:00 pm

Former Russian Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov was released from prison Thursday after a Moscow City Court suspended his sentence. Adamov was convicted on charges of fraud and abuse of office in...

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News China rights activist convicted of subversion denied appeal: lawyer
China rights activist convicted of subversion denied appeal: lawyer
Katerina Ossenova
April 17, 2008 03:22:00 pm

A lawyer for Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia , sentenced in early April to over three years in prison on charges of inciting subversion of state power , said Thursday...

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News Thailand to lift martial law restrictions in most districts
Thailand to lift martial law restrictions in most districts
Katerina Ossenova
April 17, 2008 03:01:00 pm

Martial law will be lifted in most of Thailand, new Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said Thursday. Sundaravej said that while the restrictions were no longer necessary after elections in December and the passage of the controversial...

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News Zimbabwe president accuses opposition candidate of treason
Zimbabwe president accuses opposition candidate of treason
Katerina Ossenova
April 17, 2008 02:18:00 pm

Current Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) Thursday accused opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) [party website,...

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Supreme Court hears child rape death penalty case
Katerina Ossenova
April 16, 2008 03:36:00 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Kennedy v. Louisiana , 07-343, where the Supreme Court considered whether the death penalty constitutes cruel and unusual...

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News Federal judge declares second mistrial in Sears Tower terror case
Federal judge declares second mistrial in Sears Tower terror case
Katerina Ossenova
April 16, 2008 03:18:00 pm

US District Judge Joan A. Lenard Wednesday declared a second mistrial in a terrorism prosecution of six men charged with conspiring to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI headquarters in Miami...

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News EU urged to ensure Croat war criminals brought to justice
EU urged to ensure Croat war criminals brought to justice
Katerina Ossenova
April 16, 2008 02:42:00 pm

The European Union (EU) must do more to ensure that those responsible for war crimes committed during the 1991-1995 Croatian War of Independence are brought to justice, Amnesty International said Tuesday. Amnesty called on the...

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March from Selma begins

On March 21, 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. began his third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to protest racial discrimination in the Jim Crow South. By March 25, over 25,000 people lead by Dr. King reached Montgomery, Alabama. Specifically, the march called attention to suppression of African-American voting rights and a police assault on a civil rights demonstration three weeks prior.

Five months later, in August 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. Read a history of the march from Selma to Montgomery and a history of the Voting Rights Act.

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

March 21 is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination [UNESCO factsheet].
On March 21, 1804, the Code Civil des Francais, the reformed French civil law often referred to in French as the Code Napoleon, and in English as the Napoleonic Code, went into effect in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and French colonies.

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