New California Human Rights Legislation
Amidst all the coverage of California’s new assisted suicide law, it may have been missed that Governor of California Jerry Brown signed important human rights…
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No Stamp Required: All Too Easy for #Bahrain Twitter Trolls
"Danielle Citron is an expert on online harassment and privacy. She's the author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (Harvard University Press September 2014)…
U.S. Policy on the ICC Crime of Aggression Announced
At the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law earlier this month,Professor Michael J. Matheson of George Washington University Law School c…
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China’s Golden Shield: Is Cisco Systems Complicit?
Although information technology is often hailed for its potential to promote human rights, governmental accountability, economic development, and democratizatio…
Salvadoran General Deemed Deportable In the Absence of Criminal Charges
The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) ruled last week that General Carlos Eugenio Vides-Casanova could be removed to El Salvador on account of his participatio…
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Global Magnitsky Act Re-Introduced
Senators Bill Cardin (D-Md) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) have re-introduced the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (S. 284) aimed at expanding the U.…