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ICC to probe violence in Central African Republic

May 22, 2007 09:32:00 AM

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will review allegations of rape and other violence committed in the Central African Republic (CAR), ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Tuesday. According to Moreno-Ocampo, reports detailing...

May 2, 2007 09:03:00 AM

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for two top suspects accused of committing war crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan, according to an announcement from the court Wednesday. Ahmad Muhammad...

April 26, 2007 06:52:00 PM

Two Canadian law professors and human rights activists have written to the International Criminal Court (ICC) , asking it to investigate "possible war crimes" by top Canadian defence officials. Michael Byers of the University of British Columbia and...

March 20, 2007 02:16:00 PM

Baltasar Garzon , an investigating judge for Spain's National Court , said Tuesday that President George W. Bush and his allies eventually should face war crimes charges for their actions in Iraq....

March 19, 2007 11:20:00 AM

US President George Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair may one day face war crimes charges before the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, according to ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis...

March 8, 2007 04:34:00 PM

The Sudanese trial of Ali Kushayb , one of the two suspects accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of committing war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region, and two other security officials has been delayed after Kushayb...

March 6, 2007 01:13:00 PM

Former Sudanese militia leader Ali Kushayb and two other suspects are scheduled to go on trial Wednesday in a Sudanese criminal court, according to a report by the official SUNA news agency . Kushayb is one of two...

March 5, 2007 10:50:00 AM

A former Sudanese militia leader recently accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court denied attacking Darfur civilians or displacing refugees in an article published in Sudan's Al Intibaha newspaper Sunday. Ali Kushayb...

February 27, 2007 11:59:00 AM

Luis Moreno-Ocampo , chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court asked a panel of ICC judges Tuesday to issue summonses for two top suspects accused of committing war crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan. The...

February 23, 2007 05:03:00 PM

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Jakob Kellenberger told reporters Friday that all sides of the conflict in the Sudan are violating international humanitarian law . The statement came after Kellenberger completed...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

UK parliament rejected J.S. Mill's proposal to give women the vote

On May 20, 1867, the British Parliament rejected by 196-73 an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act presented by John Stuart Mill that would have permitted women to vote. Review Mill's 1869 work The Subjection of Women.

Supreme Court applies Free Exercise Clause to state governments

On May 20, 1940, the United States Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment applied to state governments in Cantwell v. Connecticut under the incorporation doctrine, which applied the protections of the Bill of Rights to state governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Learn more about the Incorporation Doctrine from the Cornell Law Schools' Legal Information Institute.