US counter-terrorism and human rights report [UN HRC] News
US counter-terrorism and human rights report [UN HRC]

Mission to the United States of America, report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, UN Human Rights Council, October 29, 2007 [calling on the US to quickly prosecute or release terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay so that the US can close the detention center]. Read the full text of the report [DOC]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

US Supreme Court ended bus segregation

On November 13, 1956, the US Supreme Court declined the appeal of a US District Court ruling in Browder v. Gayle that had declared unconstitutional Alabama's state and local laws requiring segregation on buses, thereby ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Philippines impeaches President Estrada

On November 13, 2000, the Parliament of the Philippines voted to impeach President Joseph Estrada on corruption charges. He was ousted from power the following year.