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9/11 trial: White House urged to move
The Swampby Julian E. Barnes and Christi Parsons Key presidential advisors are pushing to move the trial of the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks to a military commission, abandoning plans to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and others in federal......Tags: Justice System, Illinois, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, International Law, Prosecution
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Seeking sports equality for women, Human Rights Watch should target Doha Olympic bid
Human Rights Watch is beating the drum this week about Saudi Arabia's discrimination against women athletes, noting among other things it is one of three countries never to have sent a woman to the Olympics.
That effort should be taking aim at a...Tags: Labor Legislation, Justice and Rights, International Law, Feminism, Civil Rights
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Human Rights fest docs convey hard truths
Sometimes a number is shocking enough to stop you cold. In filmmaker Dawn Porter's documentary "Gideon's Army," which takes an in-depth look at the professional grind experienced by public defenders (playing at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Siskel Film...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Sundance Film Festival, Murder, Human Interest, Civil Rights
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McManus: Inching toward Syria
Military intervention in the Muslim world seems to bring the United States nothing but grief. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya: None looks much like a success story now. Yet the Obama administration is edging reluctantly into a civil war in Syria, aiding rebels...
Tags: Turkey, Rebellions, Muammar Gaddafi, Libya, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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La venda de los que no quieren ver
Por décadas las acusaciones hechas por exiliados cubanos sobre los abusos a los derechos humanos en la isla de los Castro han sido cuestionadas. Hace 37 años un periódico del sur de Florida dudaba de la veracidad de lo que decían los cubanos. Estos...Tags: Politics, Cuba, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, International Law
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Guillermo Martinez: No matter what is said, rights abuses abound in Cuba
For decades, the accusations of Cuban exiles about human rights abuses in Cuba have been questioned. It was 37 years ago when a local South Florida newspaper questioned Cuban exiles when they said the Castro regime held thousands of political...Tags: Cuba, Punishment, Freedom of the Press, Trips and Vacations, Justice and Rights
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Remains of American ambassador, three others killed in Libya bombing arrive in U.S.
The remains of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans landed on U.S. soil Friday afternoon in flag-draped caskets. The four men were killed in an attack this week on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Teams of seven Marines...
Tags: Muammar Gaddafi, Libya, International Law, Al-Qaeda, Abusive Behavior
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Putin's fear of Pussy Riot
Vladimir Putin is a famously tough guy -- a former KGB agent who knows karate, plays hockey and gets photographed shirtless on horseback. But the Russian strongman is not really so strong. Evidently he's scare to death of three women who play in a punk...
Tags: Politics, Vladimir Putin, Human Rights, Punk (genre)
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2012: From Arab Spring to early winter
Meteorologists know seasons are predictable. In the weather world, spring is always followed by summer. But the political world is different. Spring can proceed to summer, or it can lead to a sudden onset of winter. That was the case this year in the...Tags: Sierra Leone, Nobel Prize Awards, Arab Spring, Muammar Gaddafi, International Law
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Olympic gender gap closing
On the surface, it looks as if the past 48 hours has brought nothing but good news for women athletes. *Qatar, which never has had a female Olympian, announced its London Summer Games flag bearer will be a woman athlete, shooter Bahiya al-Ahmad. She...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Minority Groups, Philip Hersh, International Law, Feminism
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Saudis say no to women on their Olympic team
Let's see if Jacques Rogge puts his spine where his mouth is. At February's International Olympic Committee Women in Sport Conference in Los Angeles, the IOC president paid plenty of lip service to the ideas of gender equality. He also spoke of the...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Olympic Games, Minority Groups, 2016 Olympic Games, Feminism
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