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News Harvard report concludes Myanmar officials committed war crimes and crimes against humanity
Harvard report concludes Myanmar officials committed war crimes and crimes against humanity
Emelina Perez
November 7, 2014 02:18:23 pm

An investigation conducted by the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School determined three Myanmar Army commanders committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Thandaung Township, Kayin State, between January 2005 and December...

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News ICC prosecutor: no charges in Israeli flotilla raid
ICC prosecutor: no charges in Israeli flotilla raid
Emelina Perez
November 6, 2014 02:39:30 pm

The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) , Fatou Bensouda, said Thursday there is no reasonable basis to continue the investigation of a 2010 raid by the Israeli Defense Forces on flotilla vessels headed for...

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News UN experts: investigation of enforced disappearances tests Mexico’s capability to respond to human rights violations
UN experts: investigation of enforced disappearances tests Mexico’s capability to respond to human rights violations
Emelina Perez
October 11, 2014 07:57:21 am

Members of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances said Friday that Mexico's investigation of the forty-three missing Guerrero students and the deaths of six other students in the state is a test of the...

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Women lawyers allowed to practice before US Supreme Court

On February 15, 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed legislation allowing women to be admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Belva Lockwood became the first woman admitted to practice under the new law on March 3, 1879.

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