King Gyanendra and the royal government of Nepal on Tuesday banned all public meetings in the cities of Kathmandu and Lalitpur, a move the opposition has vowed to fight. The ban, which goes into effect Wednesday, is aimed at curbing anti-government protests, including a pro-democracy protest planned for Saturday supported by seven opposition parties. The [...]
CPE: contrat premiere embauche ou contrat pour esclaves? Ou peut-etre comment perdre les elections? "A en croire les syndicats, les manifestations du 4 avril ont ete comparables a celle du 28 mars. La CGT a annonce en fin d'apres-midi qu'environ 3 millions de personnes ont défilé en France. A Paris, les organisateurs ont comptabilisé 700 [...]
French demonstrators staged a fifth day of protests Tuesday against the First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) , a labor law that would create an age-based exception to traditional French labor regulations by allowing workers who were under 26 years of age at the time of hiring to be fired without cause at any [...]
US Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) said Tuesday that he is resigning from his seat in the US House of Representatives rather than enter a tough re-election race this fall. DeLay permanently stepped down from his post as GOP House Majority Leader in January after being indicted for allegedly funneling corporate donations into the campaign funds [...]
US District Judge Jeremy Fogel has authorized lawyers to obtain information on executioners at San Quentin Prison, but has banned the release of any details about them to the public. Lawyers for convicted murderer and death row inmate Michael Morales are seeking to substantiate claims that the lethal injection method used by the California Department [...]
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor met with several potential defense lawyers after he pleaded not guilty Monday to 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone . Taylor and Special Court Principal Defender Vincent Nmehielle , who is currently defending him, say he has no money [...]
British Defense Minister John Reid on Tuesday called for changes to the international rules of war, including the Geneva Conventions , in order to allow countries to better confront terrorism and other threats. In a speech before the Royal United Services Institute , Reid said that traditional legal frameworks like the Geneva Conventions should be [...]
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori will be extradited from Chile to Peru to face corruption and human rights charges before this summer, Peru's Justice Minister Alejandro Tudela said Tuesday. Tudela said the extradition would be completed before Peru's current administration leaves office in July. Fujimori was arrested and jailed after appearing late last year in [...]
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday called on states to ratify the 1997 anti-personnel mine ban treaty and said that it should only take ten years to rid the world of all land mines will take ten years to complete, not 100 years as previously estimated. Annan's message was made to open the first International [...]
The US military commissions at Guantanamo Bay are scheduled to resume proceedings Tuesday, with pre-trial hearings scheduled for four prisoners facing terrorism-related charges. Among those scheduled to appear is Binyam Muhammad , an Ethiopian man who has been charged with conspiring with Jose Padilla as part of the dirty-bomb plot. Muhammad has argued that his [...]
