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Supreme Court rules foreign citizens can’t sue in U.S. for rights violations
The Supreme Court unanimously upheld a federal appeals court’s decision on Wednesday barring foreign citizens from suing corporations in American courts for human rights violations committed abroad. The Los Angeles Times reported that the 9-0 decision limits the scope of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) of 1789 in rejecting a…
Human rights abuses increase in Iran in 2012
Human rights violations in Iran spiralled in 2012, a United Nations monitor said Monday in a report spotlighting abuses including repression of freedom of speech, torture and secret executions. “There has been an apparent increase in the degree of seriousness of human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran,”…
Supreme Court considers Nigeria torture case
WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court began its new session on Monday by re-examining an explosive international case alleging that oil giant Shell was complicit in acts of torture by the Nigerian government. Fresh from their pivotal decision in June to uphold President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, the nine…
UN deplores ‘gross’ rights abuses in Syrian clashes
UN officials have denounced gross human rights violations by both sides in Syria, as fighting rages in the second city Aleppo with the army claiming to have secured much of a strategic district. “Midan is under the control of the army,” a military official told AFP Monday, a claim backed…
Arab Spring ‘demands change in UK arms policy’
LONDON — Britain must exercise more caution in granting licences for the export of arms to authoritarian regimes such as Bahrain in light of the Arab Spring uprisings, a parliamentary report has urged. A Commons select committee review of export controls also revealed that Britain’s Foreign Office (FCO) is concerned…
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