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Groundbreaking Report by UN Special Rapporteur on Reproductive Rights Calls
Last month, on September 28, women's rights activists throughout Latin America undertook actions marking the Day for the Decriminalization of Abortion. The protests and policy proposals were the latest steps in several decades of organizing.
Updated: 10/26/2011 08:22A
Joanna Yeates murder: jury retires in trial of Vincent Tabak
The judge, Mr Justice Field, urged the six men and six women trying Vincent Tabak to reach a unanimous verdict. He told them they should not allow emotion or sympathy for the family of Miss Yeates to cloud their judgment in arriving at
Updated: 10/26/2011 08:21A
Drilling boom brings surge in crime to Pa. small towns
In Bradford County, Pennsylvania's most heavily drilled county in the 3-year-old rush to tap the Marcellus Shale, the nation's largest-known natural gas reservoir, the stream of men from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and elsewhere has been accompanied by
Updated: 10/26/2011 08:18A
Call to change Jersey courts evidence warnings
Jersey's Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur has proposed amendments to the Criminal Justice Law. The senator wants judges to decide whether it is necessary to warn juries to treat any evidence with caution. At present, judges must tell jurors it is
Updated: 10/26/2011 08:16A
Joanna Yeates trial jury considers verdict
The judge urged the six men and six women trying Vincent Tabak to reach a unanimous verdict. Jurors at Bristol Crown Court "should not allow emotion or sympathy" to cloud their judgment in deciding whether Tabak intended to kill Miss Yeates,
Updated: 10/26/2011 08:08A
Surge in small-town crime accompanies oil and gas drilling boom
In a modern-day echo of the raucous Old West, small towns enjoying a boom in oil and gas drilling are seeing a sharp increase in drunken driving, bar fights and other hell-raising, blamed largely on an influx of young men who find themselves with lots
Updated: 10/26/2011 08:07A
Ex-Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta faces criminal charges
"The legal odyssey leading to charges against Gupta could serve as a case study in law school criminal procedure class." A native of Kolkata [ Images ], Gupta had a meteoric rise to corporate success after he graduated from Harvard Business School.
Updated: 10/26/2011 08:07A
States target prescriptions written by 'pill mills'
The man, whom the Drug Enforcement Administration has not identified because he is a witness in the case, told agents he traveled to Florida several times a week, taking advantage of lax laws governing pain clinics to buy large quantities of
Updated: 10/26/2011 07:32A
Crime novels exude literary vigilantism
The names of all the executed prisoners – common-law and political – will be commemorated. “We don't want to leave out the names of common-law criminals who were also executed,' the minister said, 'because we are saying that this [apartheid] was a
Updated: 10/26/2011 07:28A
Gadhafi Family To File NATO War Crimes Complaint - Lawyer
"Either the ICC intervenes as an independent and impartial jurisdiction or it doesn't, in which case force will overrule the law." Libya's ruling National Transitional Council has announced an investigation into Gadhafi's death.
Updated: 10/26/2011 07:17A
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