Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) began hearing public testimony Tuesday, with several people testifying about the crimes and abuse that occurred during the country's 14-year civil war . One man...
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Foley investigation may lead to charges under sexual predator law he co-sponsored
The FBI Tuesday continued an investigation into possible sex crimes by Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) that may lead to charges under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 , a...
Jamie McKenzie : "The rulings by Judge Kravitz on the case against Secretary Spellings touched not on the substance of the complaints, but largely on matters of jurisdiction, judicial ripeness and timing, as he argued in the first three counts...
State of Connecticut et al. v. Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, September 27, 2006 [dismissing three of four counts of a lawsuit filed by the state of Connecticut against the US...
Federal judge dismisses most counts of No Child Left Behind lawsuit
US District Judge Mark Kravitz Wednesday dismissed three of four counts of a lawsuit filed by the state of Connecticut against the US Department of Education claiming that provisions of the federal No Child...
The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) has set April 2 as the tentative trial date for former Liberian President Charles Taylor . Justice Julia Sebutinde announced the date Friday during...
Gonzales urges Congress to require ISP retention of customer data in child porn fight
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told members of the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Tuesday that Congress should mandate the preservation of customer records by Internet service providers in order to aid the...
France grants amnesty to 7,000 immigrants; advocacy groups disappointed
France will grant amnesty to 6,924 illegal immigrants with school-age children, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy announced Monday. Even though thousands more had applied for amnesty [JURIST...
International brief ~ HRW urges UN sanctions on Sudan officials over civilian attacks
Leading Thursday's international brief, international NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that the Sudanese government has entered a prolonged campaign of randomly bombing civilian locations in the Darfur region [JURIST...
Abigail Salisbury : "I went to spend my summer working in Prishtina, the capital city of Kosovo, because I thought that there I would gain some valuable experience which would be relevant to...
