News - Civil liberties
BELLEVUE, Wash., June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When the People's Republic of China accused the United States of violating human rights because of our Second Amendment, they voluntarily
CHICAGO, Jan. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement of Colleen K.
Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history being made today. It is crumbling, water-stained and written in Medieval Latin, but the Magna Carta has managed to remain relevant to the cause of human rights even today, 800 years after it was scrawled on parchment and affirmed with the sticky wax seal of the English king.
By Julie Shapiro, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Jan. 29--NEW BRITAIN -- Matthew Warshauer is not entirely happy that his first book -- a study of Andrew Jackson's suspension of civil liberties in wartime -- has gotten national attention.
By Peter Graff LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's High Court ruled on Wednesday that "control orders" confining six terrorism suspects to partial house arrest breached their human rights, throwing out a key plank of Prime Minister Tony Blair's security policy.
