Report 2008 [Amnesty International] News
Report 2008 [Amnesty International]

Amnesty International Report 2008: the state of the world's human rights, Amnesty International, May 28, 2008 [condemning the US and other Western democratic states for their attempts to roll back some fundamental principles of human rights in their efforts to combat terrorism]. Read the full text of the report [text, PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Eighteenth Amendment came into effect

On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution came into effect as scheduled one year after ratification, marking the beginning of Prohibition. Learn more about Temperance and Prohibition from Professor K. Austin Kerr of the Ohio State University Department of History.

English Parliament bans Roman Catholicism

On January 16, 1581, the English Parliament banned Roman Catholicism throughout the country during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. From that time on, Catholicism declined in England until the Catholic Emancipation of the late 18th century.

Read the history of the Roman Catholic Church in England.