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Israel rights groups condemns June bombing of Gaza power plant as 'war crime'
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem issued a report Wednesday concluding that the June 28 bombing by Israeli forces of a power plant in the Gaza Strip during the early stages of the 34-day Middle East conflict precipitated by the kidnapping o (More) |
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Don't Outsource Your Conscience: Lessons in Corporate Truth
JURIST Contributing Editor Nancy Rapoport of the University of Houston Law Center says that the recent spate of guilty verdicts and stiff sentences handed out for corporate fraud committed by the erstwhile leaders of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia a (More) |
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History Starts Today: The Perils of Habeas-Stripping
JURIST Guest Columnist Alison Nathan of Fordham University School of Law says that the provision in the military commissions bill stripping the federal courts of habeas jurisdiction over detainees threatens a fundamental element of our constitutional (More) |
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Federal judge bars sale of government oil leases on Alaskan land reserve
A federal judge Monday stopped the sale [ruling, PDF; Earthjustice press release] of oil and gas rights on approximately 1.7 million acres of protected land on Alaska's North Slope, which the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had planned for W (More) |
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'All the Laws But One': Parsing the Military Commissions Bill
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the overall theme of the "compromise" military commissions bill seems to be the highly-problematic creation of a unique legal regime for a specific g (More) |
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How the Compromise Detainee Legislation Guts Common Article 3
JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), now at Northwestern University School of Law, says that the new "compromise" language on detainee treatment included in the latest versi (More) |
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Rights groups call for UN intervention in Sri Lanka conflict
Human rights groups have called on the UN Human Rights Council to support an "independent international human rights monitoring mechanism" to guard against human rights violations and alleged disregard for civilian casualties in fighting (More) |
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UN rights experts say Bush detainee bill violates Geneva Conventions
A group of five United Nations human rights investigators told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva Thursday that pending US legislation [text, PDF; White House factsheet] drafted by the Bush administration to clarify interrogation methods for te (More) |
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Florida death row inmate executed after Supreme Court refuses stay
Clarence Hill [NCADP profile; FLDOC profile], who was convicted of the 1982 murder of a police officer, was executed Wednesday in Florida after the US Supreme Court denied his request to stay the execution. Five justices voted to refuse the stay; J (More) |
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Thai army chief promises new constitution in two weeks
Thai Army chief Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin [BBC profile; Sobaka profile], who led Tuesday's coup ousting the Thai civilian government , told reporters Wednesday that he will serve as acting prime minister and hopes to find a replacement prime mi (More) |
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