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ICTY prosecutor says tribunal a success despite fugitive war crimes suspects

February 8, 2007 04:15:00 PM

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has achieved marked success in bringing international war criminals to justice, chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte told a conference on Thursday. Del Ponte,...

January 30, 2007 01:53:00 PM

Carla Del Ponte said Tuesday that she will step down as chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at the end of her current term in September. Del Ponte, who...

January 3, 2007 11:47:00 AM

US ambassador-at-large for war crimes Clint Williamson told a Sarajevo newspaper in an interview published Tuesday that the United States would consider it "absolutely unacceptable" for fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and...

December 10, 2006 11:27:00 AM

Outgoing UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for greater efforts to protect human rights worldwide in a speech marking International Human Rights Day . Annan on Friday acknowledged that the UN has often...

November 30, 2006 10:43:00 AM

Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina must arrest former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic , both wanted on war crimes charges, in order to be further...

November 6, 2006 01:41:00 PM

The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Monday began the trial of Momcilo Mandic , a former interior minister and then justice minister in the Bosnian Serb government of...

October 21, 2006 03:00:00 PM

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) prosecutor Carla del Ponte said Saturday that she believes that Bosnian war fugitive Ratko Mladic "is in Serbia, in...

October 16, 2006 08:16:00 PM

Carla Del Ponte , chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , once again on Monday strongly criticized Serbia's lack of progress in the capture and arrest of war crimes fugitive...

October 10, 2006 01:11:00 PM

In a plenary session of the UN General Assembly Monday, judges from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [official website; JURIST news...

October 2, 2006 07:25:00 PM

Eight former Serbian police officers went on trial Monday in Belgrade's special war crimes court charged with the slaying of 48 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in 1999. Their commander pleaded not guilty; the remaining defendants will enter...

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International Day Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism

November 9 is the International Day Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism [UNITED factsheet]. On November 9, 1924, American gay activist Henry Gerber and several associates formed the Society for Human Rights, the first gay rights organization in the United States. The Society received a charter from the State of Illinois in December but was disbanded in July 1925 after a police raid which led to Gerber's arrest and trial (albeit not conviction). Pay a virtual visit to Henry Gerber House, now a registered Chicago landmark.

Supreme Court strikes down Massachusetts anti-draft law

On November 9, 1970, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 in Massachusetts v. Laird not to hear the case of the state's anti-draft law. Massachusetts had passed a law, which allowed its citizens to decline to fight in any undeclared war, even if the person was drafted. The law was passed in opposition to the draft and the war in Vietnam. The First Circuit found the war constitutional and thus struck down the law.