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Head of UN mission in DRC welcomes sentencing of militia leader for war crimes

November 10, 2014 12:54:53 PM

The head of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) Martin Kobler on Sunday commended the sentencing of a former militia commander accused of war crimes. General Jerome...

November 2, 2014 11:20:06 AM

Amnesty International (AI) on Friday called on UN peacekeepers and Congolese authorities to protect the country's civilians from armed rebels that are considered extremely dangerous. AI claims that the rebels have killed more than 100...

June 8, 2014 02:27:03 PM

The head of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Saturday strongly condemned an outbreak of deadly violence in the eastern areas of the DRC, sparked by a confrontation over cattle. The...

May 5, 2014 02:28:56 PM

A military court for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday convicted two of 39 soldiers charged with raping more than 130 women in the province of South Kivu. Another 24 soldiers were convicted of looting. Sources indicate...

April 10, 2014 10:49:58 AM

The UN Joint Human Rights Office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (UNJHRO) released a report Wednesday detailing widespread sexual violence committed by government forces and rebel groups between January 2010 and December 2013...

January 16, 2014 08:27:12 AM

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday urged attendees of the fifth Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) ...

October 27, 2013 10:23:00 AM

The top official for the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) , Martin Kobler, on Saturday condemned a series of attacks perpetrated by the Mayi-Mayi Cheka , which resulted...

September 29, 2013 11:54:23 AM

The top UN official for the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) on Saturday urged Congolese authorities to take all necessary steps required to capture two escaped national army officials, both...

August 29, 2013 08:35:49 AM

UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Flavia Pansieri said Wednesday that respecting human rights is essential to achieve stabilization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) . During her recent...

February 23, 2013 10:54:32 AM

In a statement to the UN Security Council on Friday, Special Representative of the Secretary-General Roger Meece urged the council to deploy an additional military brigade to help the "overstretched" peacekeeping mission in...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Bank of England granted political independence

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the Bank. This policy was statutized in the subsequent Bank of England Act of 1998 gave the Bank independent control of British monetary policy effective June 1, 1998. Read the Bank of England Act of 1998.

Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States and prohibiting courts from bestowing US citizenship on Chinese. Connecticut Senator Joseph Hawley spoke out against the Act in these words: Let the proposed statue be read 100 years hence, dug out of the dust of ages and forgotten as it will be except for a line of sneer by some historian, and ask the young man not well read in the history of this country what was the reason for excluding these men and he would not be able to find it in the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its successors were abolished in 1943 at the insistence of President Franklin Roosevelt.