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Thailand protesters petition for corruption charges over temple dispute
Protesters led by Thailand's People's Alliance for Democracy petitioned the country's National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) Monday, asking it to bring new corruption charges against government officials and former prime ministe (More) |
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Russia and China veto UN sanctions on Zimbabwe
Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council [official website; JURIST news archive] draft resolution Friday which would have imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe . The three other permanent members of the Security Council, the US, Britain and France, vo (More) |
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Israel police reveal new evidence in PM Olmert corruption investigation
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert misappropriated approximately $100,000 by double-billing different sources for travel and hotel expenses, Israeli police said Friday after questioning the politician. Olmert's travel agency, Rishon Tours, wou (More) |
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US seeking UN sanctions against Mugabe
US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad submitted a draft resolution in the UN Security Council Thursday calling for sanctions against Zimbabwe's newly reinstalled president Robert Mugabe [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and ele (More) |
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US senator criticizes warrantless laptop searches at border
US Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) has criticized the Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) warrantless searches and seizures of travelers' laptops and other digital devices at the US border, calling the searches an unacceptable invasion of (More) |
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European Union leaders call for tougher border security laws
European Union government leaders meeting in Brussels Friday directed member states to draft tougher border security legislation to curb the growing problem of illegal immigration in Europe. The security overhaul is aimed at setting common securit (More) |
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Report from Guantanamo: Mohammed Jawad is another teen growing up in detention
Sahr MuhammedAlly [Senior Associate, Law and Security Program, Human Rights First]: "On March 12, 2008, Mohammed Jawad - an Afghan national who was 16 or 17 years old at the time of his arrest in Kabul in December 2002 - made his first public ap (More) |
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Guantanamo detainee transfers put US in tight spot
Ashley Deeks [International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, and Visiting Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies]: "Last week the Department of Defense confirmed that Abdullah Saleh Ali al Ajmi, a former Guantanamo d (More) |
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Ramush Haradinaj: War Hero or War Criminal?
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Abigail Salisbury says that the recent war crimes acquittal of former Kosovo prime minister and Kosovo Liberation Army leader Ramush Haradinaj before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia - a rul (More) |
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Pope tells UN human rights key to solving world issues
Protecting human rights is vital to bridging inequalities between countries, Pope Benedict XVI said Friday in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on the third day of his visit to the United States . The Pope said:Experience (More) |
President Lincoln signed first US federal income tax act
On July 1, 1862, the Tax Act of 1862 was passed and signed by President Lincoln, establishing a 3% federal tax on income above $600 and a 5% tax on income above $10,000.
Compliance with the act was poor, even though there were needs for the Civil War. After the war the act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Review a brief history of the US income tax from the Library of Congress.
