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News Arkansas AG to appeal ruling upholding local anti-discrimination ordinance
Arkansas AG to appeal ruling upholding local anti-discrimination ordinance
Miracle Jones
March 31, 2016 01:19:27 pm

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on Wednesday filed a notice of appeal of a judge' s decision upholding a Fayetteville ordinance that protects members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community from...

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News Federal appeals court stays Texas execution
Federal appeals court stays Texas execution
Miracle Jones
March 31, 2016 12:23:16 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday halted the execution of a Texas man who was convicted of killing his children while their mother listened on the phone. John Battaglia was scheduled...

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News Former China vice governor sentenced for corruption
Former China vice governor sentenced for corruption
Miracle Jones
March 30, 2016 12:48:59 pm

The Tianjin No 1 Intermediate People's Court on Wednesday sentenced Ji Wenlin, the former vice governor of south China's Hainan Province, to 12 years in prison on corruption charges. The former government official was found to have used...

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UN SG urges governments to accept more refugees
Miracle Jones
March 30, 2016 11:37:08 am

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged world leaders to accept more refugees and to combat the growing international anti refugee sentiments. The remarks were made at the opening of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees...

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HRW: Sudan must protect women activists
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March 24, 2016 02:33:06 pm

Female rights activists in Sudan are facing harassment, violence, and other rights abuses, Human Right Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday. The report found that women in the region are subjected to abuses including genital mutilation by...

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ICC confirms war crimes charges against former LRA commander
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March 24, 2016 02:19:32 pm

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday confirmed multiple charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the case of Commander Dominic Ongwen of the Sinia Brigade of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)....

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Missouri judge orders disclosure of execution drug source
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March 23, 2016 12:23:39 pm

A Missouri state judge on Monday ordered the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) to disclose the source of the execution drug used by the state in order to comply with the Missouri sunshine law . The...

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Kansas governor signs student religious freedom bill
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March 23, 2016 11:17:46 am

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed into law on Tuesday a religious freedom bill that allows religious student organizations to base acceptance on sincerely held religious beliefs. Senate Bill 175 , known as the post secondary religious...

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Pakistan Supreme Court permits Musharraf to travel abroad while awaiting trial
Miracle Jones
March 16, 2016 12:46:36 pm

The Supreme Court of Pakistan affirmed the ruling of a lower court on Tuesday allowing former president Pervez Musharraf to travel abroad. The court held that the former president, who is still awaiting trial on...

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UN chief urges rights council to make greater impact in second decade
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March 16, 2016 10:22:21 am

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called Tuesday for the UN Human Rights Council to increase its impact in the next decade, citing the erosion of human rights around the world. In a speech marking the the...

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United Nations Day

October 24 is United Nations Day. On October 24, 1945, the UN Charter, signed on June 26, 1945, formally entered into force. Review the text of the UN Charter.

Civil Rights pioneers Jackie Robinson and Rosa Parks die

On October 24, 1972, the first African-American to play Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson, died at the age of 53 in Stamford, Connecticut. On the same day in 2005, Rosa Parks passed away in Detroit at the age of 92. Parks inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Both Parks and Robinson were symbols of the civil rights movement, which led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

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