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Recent publicity and attacks on Canada's human rights tribunals have led to some critics wondering about the need for them or whether they can be reformed.

As of June 30, 2008, the Human Rights Code Amendment Act, or previously called Bill 107, took effect. Time will tell if the new direct access model will work.

The basilica was an important public and administrative structure in any Roman forum. The basilicas of the Forum Romanum were among some of the largest and grandest.

A special tribunal established to investigate the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri officially began its work on Sunday, March 1, 2009.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda seeks to rectify some of the damage done during the 1994 genocide of minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Paralegals, through education and licensing, specialize in basic legal matters such as evictions or traffic tickets.

Glastonbury is an interesting town with a strong New-Age/Alternative living feel to it, and the pilgrims have been coming to the Abbey and Tor for generations.

Choosing to appeal against redundancy can become a long and drawn out process, but it is a route worth taking if employees feel they are being made a scapegoat.

Ageing Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan, facing potential indictment by an atrocity crimes tribunal, was whisked to a Phnom Penh hospital following a stroke this week.

On September 4, 2008, Dr. Sam Cherribi and the Emory Development Institute hosted a lecture by a prominent defense attorney with the ICTR.

Three men are convicted for their role in the 11-year long Sierra Leone civil war. The guilty verdict includes the use of child soldiers.

As the race heats up for Ontario's Progressive Conservative leadership, party members are warned that radical visions may win the leadership but not win government.

The Kenyan cabinet remains sharply divided after a meeting held on July 20, 2009 failed to resolve the fate of the post election violence perpetrators.

Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try some 9/11 plotters in civilian courts has met with different responses from victims' families and politicians.

Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant are two Canadian writers whose work offended Muslims; they have paid a high financial and emotional price as a result.

Kenyans are eagerly awaiting the arrival of International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, who arrives early next month.

Recent jurisprudence has shown that the need for an appropriate comparator is still a great hurdle to claims of multiple discrimination.

It has been over twelve years since the Rwandan genocide and many of the perpetrators remain at large, including Félicien Kabuga.

The arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in July of 2008 left General Ratko Mladic, his military commander, as the most wanted fugitive in Europe.

14 years after the Dayton Peace Agreement ended the war in Bosnia, scientists are still analyzing DNA from exhumed bones to identify genocide victims.

A judge has reversed the stay of deportation for John Demjanjuk, who is accused of being an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews in a Nazi concentration camp.

The Rape of Nanking took place after the fall of the city of Nanking, -today's Nanjing - in China when Japanese troops committed acts of unspeakable cruelty.

The issue of multiple discrimination has been increasingly on the legal agenda in the UK and it seems that the legislation is slowly changing to accommodate it.

It's easy to get confused about international courts. Find out what these two courts do, what their jurisdiction is, and what law they apply.

In Ontario, renters are protected by two key pieces of legislation. This is a brief analysis on how human rights legislation affects one's right to rental housing.

The trial of Tuol Sleng prison chief Duch, the first senior member of the Khmer Rouge regime to face justice, will soon deliver its verdict.

The right to eat well and stay healthy should not be a fight for thousands of Ontarians with medical conditions that live in poverty. But, that fight has just begun.

In 1937 the Japanese Imperial Army began an assault on Nanking and slaughtered 300,000 Chinese civilians. This article provides a short overview of the massacre.

Despite its continued controversy, Ontario's Access to Justice Act has opened the door to licensing non-lawyers to practice certain areas of law.

Dwight David Eisenhower, prior to becoming President of the United States, served the U.S. Army for more than 40 years, achieving the highest rank of any officer.

The Nuremberg Code of 1947 set forth 10 basic principles regarding human experimentation, but the medical profession needed something less legalistic and more practical.

In a historic act, the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague issued an arrest warrant for Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, on March 4, 2009.

Informed consent was designed to protect humans from unauthorized experimentation. Over time, the principle was formalized into a process that met other requirements.

Juventus have won promotion from Serie B after one season out of the top flight of Italian football following their demotion for involvement in the match-fixing scandal.

Thousands visit the former Khmer Rouge torture center of Toul Sleng and the Choeung Ek Killing Fields while in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh.

He was once one of Cambodia's most respected opposition figures, but Khieu Samphan fled persecution only to become the Khmer Rouge head of state and now awaits trial.

Beginning in 1946, 23 German physicians were prosecuted for human experimentation abuses. The resulting Doctors' Trial led to the Nuremberg Code in 1947.

Although informed consent is designed to protect individuals from unauthorized experimentation, the principle is a modern phenomenon that is not universally accepted.

Following the Reign of Terror, a number of French radicals led by Maximilien Robespierre were arrested and guillotined as outlaws. This led to the Executive Directory.

Catalogue debt is a similar problem to credit card debt in the sense that spending too much makes it hard to pay off. Identifying the right debt solution is a priority.

Nuon Chea, Brother Number Two under the infamous Khmer Rouge regime, has been arrested with a view to facing human rights charges in the forthcoming UN-backed tribunal.

Nobel Laureate Yunus formed a new party amid the political chaos that has enveloped the nation.

George Turner was a prominent Spokane, Washington lawyer and politician from about 1880 to the early 1900s. He served as a Supreme Court Justice and US Senator.

Most companies are committed to a work environment characterized by respect and equal opportunities for each individual, whatever their personal situation and details.

A person has the right to dispute a debt if he does not owe the debt, has made the debt repayment or disagrees with the amount claimed.

Examining the beliefs and actions of conscientious objectors, Will Ellsworth-Jones' We Will Not Fight offers a unique perspective on the First World War.

Targets of workplace bullies are gaining new tools to fight back. With public awareness, comes legislative change and hopefully soon, changing attitudes.

The International Criminal Court uses an interesting choice of jurisdiction to support national trials for war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity.

Guide to the plot, characters and history of Umberto Giordano's opera Andrea Chénier (1896).

A tight race between four candidates for the provincial leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party is over, as Tim Hudak takes the helm.