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Your chance to ask about your civil liberties and human rights – post questions here to be answered by Liberty's lawyers Open thread In this week's Liberty Clinic, James Welch answers nonjuror's question about the difference between arrest and detention,...
Tags: Liberty Clinic, United Kingdom, London, Political philosophy, Rights, Civil liberties, Liberty, Social Issues, Social philosophy, Kettling
"Internment: It Could Happen to YOU!" This eye-catching warning is splashed across the cab and rear door of a refurbished school bus, now painted fatigue-green. The TRACES museum traveling exhibit, called the "Bus-eum 3" reinforces...
Tags: TRACES Museum, Bus-eum 3, Irving Kellman, German American Internee Coalition, National Archives, internment, 9/11, Constitution, civil rights, WWII, enemy ancestry, Japanese American, German American, individual and group exclusion from military zones, internee exchange, deportation, alien enemy registration requirements, travel restrictions, property confiscation, Nazi Germany, Immigration and Naturalization Services, INS, internment camps, due process, civil liberties
Post your civil liberties and human rights queries here Open thread It is now an offence to pay for the sexual services of a prostitute who has been subject to force, whether or not the person paying is aware of the exploitation...A Liberty lawyer selects...
Tags: Liberty Clinic, United Kingdom, London, Political philosophy, Rights, Civil liberties, Liberty, Social Issues, Social philosophy
Google is planning to give the world a sneak peek at the venues of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Starting next week, Google will be capturing images in Vancouver and Whistler, B.C., for its Street View feature. The service allows users to search for an address...
Tags: Vancouver, winter olympic, Canada, Bylaw, Winter Olympics, Bylaw enforcement officer, Whistler British Columbia, Google Street View, Civil liberties, Gregor Robertson, Technology Internet, Year of birth missing, Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, Google Earth, Google Maps, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Ambush marketing, Google
Britain's 5.5 million Twitter users are younger than average members of the public, slightly more likely to vote Labour, and distinctly more liberal, according to a survey published today. They are also more likely to live in London, less likely to live...
Tags: twitter users, civil liberties, United Kingdom, London, Evaluation methods, Sampling, YouGov, Statistical survey, Social network service, Online social networking, Twitter, Web 2.0, Social Issues
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the rights of a Rastafarian baggage screener at Boston’s Logan International Airport were violated when he was threatened with firing unless he kept his hair short. The American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday...
Tags: Josue Brissot, Boston, Civil rights and liberties, American Civil Liberties Union, Dreadlocks, Rastafari movement, Civil liberties, African American culture, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Rastafari, Labor
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, holed up in an embassy three months after being toppled in a coup, was skeptical on Tuesday about the chances of holding talks with the divided country's de facto leader. Foreign ministers and diplomats from the...
Tags: Honduras, Jose Manuel Zelaya, Organisation of American States, United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Roberto Micheletti, civil liberties, Tegucigalpa
Aides to Manuel Zelaya and de-facto President Roberto Micheletti will reportedly meet next week. The talks would precede a visit by the Organisation of American States aimed at brokering a deal, the OAS says. An emergency decree limiting civil liberties...
Tags: Manuel Zelaya, Roberto Micheletti, Honduras, presidency manuel, Organisation of American States, Robert Micheletti, ousted presidency, civil liberties, Tegucigalpa
Honduras— Cracks are deepening among supporters of Honduras' coup-imposed government, with business leaders softening their opposition to reinstating the ousted president and lawmakers threatening to revoke an emergency decree limiting civil liberties....
Tags: Manuel Zelaya The Cádiz, Bill Clinton, Haiti, civil liberties, Honduran, Mr Zelaya, president manuel, business leaders, Roberto Micheletti, The Americas Conference, Honduras, Tegucigalpa
The coup-installed Honduran president yesterday backed down from an escalating standoff with protesters, and suggested that he would restore civil liberties and reopen dissident television and radio stations by week's end. Riot police ringed hundreds...
Tags: Manuel Zelaya, political crisis, Honduran, president manuel, coup regime, civil liberties, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, State Department Scolds Zelaya, ousted president