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News Service women amend complaint over combat exclusion
Service women amend complaint over combat exclusion
Laura Klein Mullen
October 31, 2013 02:37:58 pm

Four service women and the Service Women Action Network (SWAN) filed an amended complaint on Thursday in their lawsuit against the US Army and the Department of Defense in the US District Court...

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News UN rights expert: victims of Ivory Coast election violence must not be forgotten
UN rights expert: victims of Ivory Coast election violence must not be forgotten
Laura Klein Mullen
October 24, 2013 02:56:27 pm

UN human rights expert Doudou Diene on Thursday stressed the importance of remembering the victims of the violent post-election crisis that gripped the West African nation of the Ivory Coast two years ago. The five-month long post-election...

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News Federal appeals court upholds conviction of former Guantanamo detainee
Federal appeals court upholds conviction of former Guantanamo detainee
Laura Klein Mullen
October 24, 2013 01:55:06 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday upheld the conviction of ex-Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa. Ghailani had appealed his conviction...

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News Chief Guantanamo prosecutor agrees to try al Qaeda conspirator in federal court
Chief Guantanamo prosecutor agrees to try al Qaeda conspirator in federal court
Laura Klein Mullen
October 22, 2013 03:45:07 pm

Mark Martins , the chief war crimes prosecutor for the US military commissions at Guantanamo, said on Monday that he had participated in the decision to bring the case of suspected terrorist Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai...

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News Netherlands asks international court to order Russia to release Greenpeace activists
Netherlands asks international court to order Russia to release Greenpeace activists
Laura Klein Mullen
October 22, 2013 02:44:26 pm

The Dutch government on Monday asked the UN-backed International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) to order Russia to return a ship used by Greenpeace International and the activists who were...

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News UN expert calls on Togo to improve environment for human rights defenders
UN expert calls on Togo to improve environment for human rights defenders
Laura Klein Mullen
October 17, 2013 01:40:27 pm

Independent UN rights expert Margaret Sekaggya on Thursday called on the government of Togo to work towards providing an environment that allows human rights defenders to carry out their work. Sekaggya explained that this could be done...

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News Washington state approves rules for recreational sale of marijuana
Washington state approves rules for recreational sale of marijuana
Laura Klein Mullen
October 17, 2013 12:41:36 pm

The Washington State Liquor Control Board adopted rules on Wednesday to regulate the recreational sale of marijuana in retail stores. The state will place high taxes on the sales of the drug as...

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News Terror suspect in 1998 US Embassy bombings pleads not guilty
Terror suspect in 1998 US Embassy bombings pleads not guilty
Laura Klein Mullen
October 15, 2013 02:52:13 pm

Suspected terrorist Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai appeared in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday to plead not guilty to charges that he helped plan and conduct surveillance for the bombings of...

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News Charles Taylor transferred to UK prison to serve 50-year sentence
Charles Taylor transferred to UK prison to serve 50-year sentence
Laura Klein Mullen
October 15, 2013 01:52:43 pm

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor was transferred on Tuesday from The Hague to a British prison, where he will serve his 50-year sentence for war crimes. Taylor has been convicted of aiding...

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Iraq officials execute 42 people convicted on terrorism charges
Laura Klein Mullen
October 10, 2013 02:43:07 pm

Iraqi authorities on Thursday announced the execution of 42 people convicted on terrorism charges. The executions took place over the course of two days and bring the total number of executions in Iraq this year...

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European Court ruled against hitting schoolchildren in the UK

On February 25, 1982, in Campbell & Cosans v. The United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that parents can prevent teachers in the United Kingdom from striking their schoolchildren. At the time of the court's decision, the UK was the only Western European nation that permitted corporal punishment in schools.

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