Foreign "guest workers" in the US are being continually and severely abused, according to a report pointedly entitled "Close to Slavery" issued Monday by the Southern Poverty Law Center . The report says that workers are frequently cheated out of wages, and must pay high fees to obtain the offered jobs. Workers have travel documents [...]
The Idaho State Senate passed a bill in a 29-6 vote Monday that would block illegal immigrants from using most taxpayer-financed public assistance programs. S-1157 would require that applicants eighteen years of age or older to show proof that they are lawfully present in the United States before receiving certain public benefits. Sen. Chuck Coiner, [...]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed fraud charges Monday against former executives of Canadian telecommunications manufacturer Nortel Networks , accusing the corporation of misleading investors. The complaint , brought in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York , accuses Frank A. Dunn, Douglas C. Beatty, Michael J. Gollogly and [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed member nations to work with the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday, telling UNHRC members at the opening of the council's first 2007 session that it is crucial that they in turn work with all nations in cooperation toward ending human rights abuses. In an address to the UNHRC [...]
A New Jersey jury awarded a plaintiff $20 million in the latest Vioxx litigation on Monday. The jury found that the drug, distributed by Merck , caused the plaintiff's heart attack and that had the plaintiff's doctor known of the risks associated with Vioxx he would not have prescribed it to the plaintiff. During the [...]
A lawyer for Zimbabwe opposition presidential hopeful Morgan Tsvangirai , who was arrested by government forces Sunday, alleged Monday that police beat Tsvangirai after he was taken into custody. Party officials similarly said he was "fighting" for his life after being "brutally beaten." Innocent Chagonda reported that he saw from a distance that Tsvangirai's head [...]
The US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania heard opening statements Monday in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of two laws passed by the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania that make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to live or work in the town. Lozano v. City of Hazleton , which could take up [...]
An appeals court in Egypt has affirmed the four-year prison sentence imposed on Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil at a hearing Monday, according to court officials speaking to AP on condition of anonymity. A lower court in Alexandria initially imposed the sentence against Nabil in February on charges of inciting sedition, insulting Islam and Egyptian [...]
Only one in five US federal agencies actually complies with the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments (E-FOIA) , according to a report released Monday by the National Security Archive . The E-FOIA amendments, which took effect in 1997, require federal agencies to post key records online, provide citizens with detailed guidance on making information [...]
Several high-ranking Democratic senators have called for the resignation of US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in the wake of revelations in an official audit that the FBI broke and misused laws in the process of obtaining personal information from telephone companies, Internet service providers, banks, and credit bureaus under the terms of the Patriot Act. [...]
