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Analysis: Once a beacon, Obama under fire over civil liberties
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - He may have been the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He may have written a book extolling constitutional values in a democracy. And he may have...Tags: University of Chicago, New York University, George W. Bush, Chuck Grassley, Republican Party
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In uproar over U.S. seizure of AP records, focus turns to Holder
ReutersBy Tabassum Zakaria and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was likely to face a storm of questions on Tuesday over the Justice Department's controversial decision to seize telephone records of the Associated...Tags: Jay Carney, Patrick Leahy, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Benghazi, Crime, Law and Justice
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Iran defends post as chair of UN disarmament conference
Reuters* Disarmament conference deadlocked for over a decade * U.S. urges barring sanctioned states from U.N. posts * Iran says will prioritize nuclear disarmament as chair By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, May 14 (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday defended...Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), International Organizations, Treaties, Tehran (Iran), Human Rights
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Associated Press says U.S. government seized journalists' phone records
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Associated Press said on Monday the U.S. government secretly seized telephone records of AP offices and reporters for a two-month period in 2012, describing the acts as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into news-gathering...Tags: Jay Carney, Patrick Leahy, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Benghazi, Crime, Law and Justice
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Iran defends post as chair of U.N. disarmament conference
ReutersUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday defended its election as the rotating chair of the world's sole multilateral disarmament forum after the United States announced that its ambassador to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament would boycott any meeting...Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), International Organizations, Tehran (Iran), Treaties, Human Rights
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Bahrain blogger escapes to Britain
ReutersBy Gwladys Fouche OSLO, May 14 (Reuters) - A Bahraini blogger and human rights activist said he had been granted asylum in Britain after being in hiding for two years. A leading voice among protesters during anti-government demonstrations in 2011, Ali...Tags: Punishment, Lifestyle and Leisure, Human Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Demonstration
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Rights group urges China to repeal penalties against sex workers
ReutersHONG KONG (Reuters) - China should remove criminal and administrative penalties against sex workers which often lead to serious police abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday. The abuses include torture, beatings, physical...Tags: Human Rights Watch, International Law, HIV, Xi Jinping, Sex Crimes
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CCU students receive scholarships to attend women's leadership program in Washington, D.C.
The Sun NewsWomen in Philanthropy and Leadership for Coastal Carolina University has selected two students to attend the Washington Internship Institute's new Global Women's Leadership Development program. Anastasia Rhodes and Alana Thornton, both political science...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC, International Relations, Coastal Carolina University , Students
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Lawyer Rick Esenberg revels in public policy fights
Milwaukee Journal SentinelRick Esenberg's love of law started with a long-ago television show named "Judd for the Defense," a series about a high-profile attorney who takes on tough cases across America. "For some reason, that captivated me," Esenberg says. Esenberg's own...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Tammy Baldwin, Newspaper and Magazine, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Crime, Law and Justice
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Human Rights Watch alleges rebel atrocities in Syria
BEIRUT -- Gruesome video footage purportedly showing a Syrian rebel commander mutilating the corpse of a dead soldier while shouting sectarian insults has drawn condemnation from Human Rights Watch and focused renewed attention on battlefield atrocities...
Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Human Rights Watch, International Law, Human Rights, International Court or Tribunal
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COLUMN - Scrambling for the immigrant elite
Reuters(John Lloyd is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By John Lloyd May 14 (Reuters) - A new era has arrived in immigration. Many countries - the United States, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands - have for decades taken in poor...Tags: University of Oxford, France, Illegal Immigrants, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace
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Bidding for coffee with Apple's Tim Cook surpasses $605,000
Tim Cook is an expensive date. Last month, the Apple chief executive teamed up with CharityBuzz.com to auction off the right to a cup of coffee with him to raise money for the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. The value of the...
Tags: Tim Cook, BlackBerry, Computer Hardware, Easter, Human Rights
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