Council of Europe (COE) Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg expressed concern with several UK asylum and immigration procedures in a memorandum released Friday. The memorandum was the result of visits by Hammarberg to the UK last February and March, which included visits to the Colnbrook and Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centres . Hammarberg flagged [...]
The Venezuelan government ordered two senior officials of Human Rights Watch (HRW) to leave the country Thursday night after the group released a report concluding that democracy and human rights have suffered during the presidency of Hugo Chavez . According to a statement from Venezuela's Foreign Ministry , HRW Americas director Jose Miguel Vivanco and [...]
Marin Macwan : "Upon presenting the new Constitution of India to Parliament in 1947, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, chairperson of the Drafting Committee, stated, "We are entering into an age of contradiction. In law, we are all equal, but in society there is nothing but inequality." He concluded with the warning that "unless and until [...]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Thursday filed a class action lawsuit seeking injunctive, declaratory and equitable relief from the National Security Agency (NSA) warrantless surveillance program , which gave government agencies access to over 300 terabytes of data concerning communication sent and received by AT&T customers. Filed on behalf of those customers, the suit [...]
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Thursday said his department is conducting an investigation into whether some investors used illegal methods to profit from recent declines in banking and insurance stocks. It is alleged that some investors combined the short-selling of stock with the spreading of false information to illegally gain from recent devaluations in [...]
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Friday announced that former Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea will be held for another year as prosecutors continue to build a war crimes case against him. Nuon Chea, known as Brother Number Two in the Khmer Rouge , was arrested and charged in September 2007. [...]
The American Psychological Association (APA) announced Wednesday that it had adopted a measure prohibiting members from participating in interrogations of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay and other military prisons where suspects have allegedly been tortured. The resolution, approved by a vote of 8,792 to 6,157 members, represents a reversal in position by the group, which [...]
A US Army Special Forces soldier faces court-martial proceedings following his arraignment in connection with the killing of an Afghan man earlier this year. The Army announced Thursday that Master Sgt. Joseph D. Newell of the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) based at Fort Bragg, N.C., is charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice [...]
The State Council of China on Thursday issued regulations implementing ambiguous provisions of the Labor Contract Law that took effect at the beginning of this year. Among other clarifications, the regulations provide that contracts without a termination date do not have a lifetime term, instead specifying the circumstances in which employers or employees may unilaterally [...]
In an indictment unsealed on Wednesday, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) charged sixteen individuals and companies from Iran and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on thirteen counts related to alleged conspiracies to illegally export electronic components to Iran, in violation of US law and the US economic embargo against Iran. According to the indictment, [...]
