The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Tuesday released a report detailing the ongoing problem of human trafficking in Europe. According to the report, European criminal organizations make a yearly profit of around $3 billion from trafficking humans for sexual exploitation or forced labor. The report also found that at a minimum, 140,000 [...]
Ingrid Burke, Pitt Law ’11, traveled to the ICTR in Tanzania with Professor Charles Jalloh through Pitt Law’s Center for International Legal Education… As part of a group of Pitt Law students, I recently had the opportunity to spend three days observing the inner workings of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, [...]
Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen (D) on Monday signed an immigration bill into law that will require police to check the legal status of people who have been arrested and report those who are in the US illegally. The law was created to combat illegal immigration in Tennessee and enhance communication with the US Immigration and [...]
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) on Tuesday called for an inquiry into possible civil liberties violations during the Toronto Group of 20 (G-20) summit . The group released a preliminary report on security measures, condemning some police conduct during the summit as “disproportionate, arbitrary and excessive.” The CCLA also criticized the enactment of a [...]
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday terminated the appellate proceedings in the case of former Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) army commander Rasim Delic , who died in April while on provisional release in Sarajevo. Delic was convicted in 2008 on the basis of superior responsibility for [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Tuesday ruled in favor of Merck & Co. in a lawsuit filed by the state of Louisiana over reimbursements for the prescription painkiller Vioxx . Louisiana had argued that it would have restricted the sales of Vioxx through state Medicaid if [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reported Tuesday that there have been more than 100 incidents of political surveillance and harassment by authorities in 33 states since 9/11 . The report is broken down by state and lists incidents ranging from undercover police officers attending protests to authorities arresting individuals for taking pictures of police [...]
Richard Aborn : “What is most important to the gun control movement is the ability to pass reasonable laws designed to break up the illegal gun markets. While I disagree with this decision, as I do with District of Columbia v. Heller, these rulings do not deter us from pursuing laws that would close the [...]
The EU agreed Monday to give the US access to bank data in order to track the finances of suspected terrorists. Under the agreement, the US can use the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program to access information from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) , an interbank money transfer system, to track the finances [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday summarily affirmed a lower court’s ruling in Republican National Committee v. Federal Elections Commission , upholding a ban on the use of “soft money” in elections. The Federal Election Campaign Act prohibits national political parties from soliciting, receiving or spending non-federal campaign funds in conjunction with federal campaign funds [...]
