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UN rights expert urges civilian protection amid increasing Myanmar violence
The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, on Monday expressed concern over violence against civilians in Myanmar's Kachin State. A reported 10 civilians were killed and several more severely injured and woun (More) |
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Bangladesh and UN agree on voluntary return for Rohingya refugees
The foreign secretary of Bangladesh and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Friday to cement their agreement that Rohingya refugees should be able to voluntarily return to Myanmar when the country' (More) |
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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 17 March 2018
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Peru's Congress voted [La República report, in Spanish] by a wide margin on Thursday to begin impeachment proceedings against President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski for a second time in three month (More) |
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UN official convinced Myanmar's actions constitute genocide
A UN official investigating human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee , on Monday called for an immediate investigation into "clearance operations" in Rakhine State, stating she is increasingly convinced the state's actions amount to genocide. Lee call (More) |
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HRW: Myanmar bulldozing Rohingya villages
Myanmar officials have been bulldozing depopulated Rohingya villages that were previously the targets of arson by the government, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Friday. Satellite images have shown that at least 55 villages were cleared since la (More) |
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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 13 January 2018
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The Luxembourg Court of Cassation on Thursday reversed the conviction of "LuxLeaks" whistleblower Antoine Deltour who had leaked thousands of documents revealing tax breaks for major companie (More) |
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Myanmar authorities charge Reuters journalists with obtaining state secrets
Myanmar prosecutors said Wednesday that two Reuters journalists have been charged with obtaining state secrets. Journalists Wal Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested on December 12, 2017, while investigating the government's crackdown on the Rohingya m (More) |
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HRW: 'methodical massacre' of Rohingya and continued destruction of villages in Myanmar
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday detalied the "methodical massacre" in the Rohingya village of Tula Toli, also known as Min Gyi, in Burma's Rakhine State on August 30, 2017. HRW alleges that Tula Toli was attacked by several hundred Burmese sol (More) |
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US House passes resolution condemning 'ethnic cleansing' in Myanmar
The US House of Representatives voted 423-3 on Wednesday to approveH. Con. Res. 90 condemning "ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya and calling for an end to the attacks in and an immediate restoration of humanitarian access to the state of Rakhine i (More) |
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UN rights chief: cannot rule out genocide in Myanmar
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said Tuesday that he could not rule out that genocide is occurring in Myanmar against the Rohingya Muslim minority. During statements to a special session of the UN Human Rights Council (More) |
President Johnson signed law against burning draft cards
On August 31, 1965, President Johnson signed a law making the burning of draft cards a federal offense subject to a five-year prison sentence and $1000 fine. In response to the law and in protest of the war in Vietnam, the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States on October 15, 1965. The constitutionality of the federal law was upheld in 1968 by the US Supreme Court in US v. O'Brien.
