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On September 28, 2009, coup leader Captain Moussa "Dadis" Camara’s soldiers killed over 150 people who were protesting in favor of democracy and women were reportedly being raped. Opposition leaders and some demonstrators were also arrested,...

Three years ago, Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian security agent who became a British citizen, was murdered in London by radioactive polonium poisoning. The suspect, Andrei Lugovoy (a.k.a. Andrey Konstantinovich Lugovoy) is a former KGB agent who resides...

As we recently discussed in Zimbabwe: A Human Rights Tragedy (Oct. 15, 2009), Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and the thugs in his ZANU-PF political party have been engaged in a campaign of violence and intimidation against supporters of reformer Prime...

In 2003, former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic pled guilty to some war crimes in exchange for genocide and other serious ethnic cleansing charges being dropped. The plea deal included an 11-year prison sentence. 2003+11=2014, if the math is correct....

Along with resurgence in the popularity of Soviet symbolism in Russia is a corresponding suppression of free speech and human rights. As we recently pointed out in Does Russia Get a Free Pass on Human Rights in Chechnya? (Sept. 28, 2009), a thugocracy is...

Frédéric Mitterand, France’s Culture Minister, vigorously defended Roman Polanski when the film director was arrested by the Swiss on an outstanding U.S. warrant. Polanski fled the United States and has lived in France to avoid punishment...

At what point, if any, should free speech be curtailed to prevent the promotion of pedophilia and human trafficking? That’s the issue raised by a proposed new film adaptation of a book by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The book,...

President Robert Mugabe and his political party, the ZANU-PF, operate a regime in which the “rule of law” means what best serves Mugabe’s self-interest. Political opposition, such as an aide to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, is imprisoned...

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Can First Amendment free press protections be circumvented by relabeling a defamation claim as one for intentional infliction of emotional distress? The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is about to weigh in on this issue. On September 9, 2009, the...

On September 16, 2009, LexisNexis presented its Rule of Law initiative to some 35 judges at the Association of Supreme Court Justices’ annual conference in New York.  Nisha A. Falcigno, Esq., senior account manager at LexisNexis, coordinated the...

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE/ODIHR), the Council of Europe (CoE), and the United Nations Educational,...

Press coverage of Russian human rights abuses is met with violence. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Russia is the third deadliest country in the world for reporters. Three journalists have been murdered so far this year. Media Watchdog:...

How to deal with captured suspected terrorists continues to be a legal dilemma for the courts and the Obama Administration. Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ordered oral arguments closed to the public for a hearing about an enemy...

In a video speech to the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton argued that additional steps are needed to combat human trafficking because this widespread problem thrives during the current global...

Is it compassionate to release a terminally ill terrorist who has been convicted of killing hundreds of civilians by blowing their airplane out of the sky? That’s the position taken by the Scottish government when it decided to release Pan Am Flight...

To further support the company's effort to uphold the Rule of Law around the globe, the print team has launched a campaign that allows customers to help drive this effort. The promotion offers 10% off any LexisNexis Store purchase; LexisNexis will then donate...

The U.S. Department of State in its recently released 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report commended LexisNexis for its multiple efforts to help combat human trafficking by providing support in various forms to combat this heinous practice. Discussing...

In today's Washington Post , U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton makes a strong case that stopping the crime of human trafficking is a top State Department priority because it is a problem that threatens both basic individual human rights and...

On May 21-22, 2009, human rights advocate Somaly Mam traveled across Singapore, telling tens of thousands about her efforts to combat child prostitution and human trafficking. At a children's rights conference, Singapore Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong recognized...

In early March, we analyzed the disparate treatment of detainees held by the U.S. military as enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay versus those held at Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield. The next day, the U.S. Department of Justice dropped the term “enemy...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced yesterday that the United States would seek election to the U.N. Human Rights Council , asserting that human rights are an essential part of U.S. foreign policy. Council elections will be held in mid-May. ...

"Returning Home: Resettlement and Reintegration of Detainees Released from the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba" is a policy paper jointly issued this month by the International Human Rights Law Clinic and the Human Rights Center both...

We at the LexisNexis Rule of Law Resource Centerat pleased to share with you the following exciting news of Mr. Luis  de Baca's nomination for the post of Ambassador-At-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.  Mr. de Baca, an attorney...

Since the Civil Rights era, the United States judicial system has emphasized due process and equal protection regardless of skin pigmentation. But it is the color green that now threatens an independent judiciary and the application of the rule of law....

As a candidate , President Obama chastised the Bush Administration for alleged human rights abuses of enemy combatants held as detainees outside of the United States. Yet recent decisions by the Obama Administration imply that this criticism was based on...

The pace of change in Washington is already accelerating.  Less than 48 hours after President Obama was sworn in, citing the importance of the "rule of law and the rights of man" in his Inaugural Address, the nominee for the key...

Referring to concerns about our common defense and rejecting as false the perceived choice between our safety and our ideals, President Obama has reaffirmed that his administration will uphold and be guided by the rule of law and the rights of man enshrined...

Millions around the world are eagerly anticipating tomorrow and the historic transition of power that will result when the first African-American takes the presidential oath of office and becomes the 44 th President of the United States.   As...

Although governments are looking for ways to reduce spending because of slowing economies, anecdotal evidence suggests that anti-trafficking budgets will be protected. The funding will continue because efforts to protect women and children are politically...

Where and How to Sit? The Darfur Genocide and the Dilemma of the International Criminal Court   When the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague sought to indict the sitting president of The Sudan, Mr. Omar al-Bashir...

When Somali pirates hijacked a Saudi oil tanker, it escalated the level of oceanic terrorist acts. Recent piracy in the region has focused on taking...

by Susana SaCouto, Director of the War Crimes Research Office at American University, Washington College of Law   Excerpt:   ON FEBRUARY 26, 2007, THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE (ICJ or the Court) issued its opinion in the...

Sara Ramey, a J.D. candidate at the Washington College of Law, recently reviewed The War On Human Trafficking: U.S. Policy Assessed, by Anthony M. Destefano, in the Winter 2008 edition of Human Rights Brief.   In her review, Ms. Ramey...

by Abby Morrow Richardson, J.D. candidate, Washington College of Law; staff writer, Human Rights Brief   Excerpt:   A CONSIDERABLE HURDLE TO THE REALIZATION of women's human rights in Africa is the pervasive denial of...