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Schmerz und Lüge | Telepolis (16.04.09)
Es sind ziemlich bizarre Dokumente, die jetzt auf der Homepage der amerikanischen Bürgerrechtsorganisation [extern] American Civil Liberties Union - auf Anordnung des neuen Präsidenten - öffentlich zugänglich sind: die bis dato geheimen Memos der Regierung Bush zur Folter von gefangenen "high value"-Terroristen. Die vier Memos geben detaillierten Einblick in den Stand der "cleanen" Foltertechnik Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts und deren Methodenmix. Sie zeigen die technokratische Euphemisierung des Schmerzes und die semantische Wühlmausarbeit der flexiblen Zyniker im US-Justizministerium zu Zeiten von George W. Bush und Vize Cheney.
Anitboycott Compliance | Bureau of Industry and Security, US Department of Commerce
The Bureau is charged with administering and enforcing the Antiboycott Laws under the Export Administration Act. Those laws discourage, and in some circumstances, prohibit U.S. companies from furthering or supporting the boycott of Israel sponsored by the Arab League, and certain Moslem countries, including complying with certain requests for information designed to verify compliance with the boycott. Compliance with such requests may be prohibited by the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and may be reportable to the Bureau.
Europe Criticizes Bush; Follows His Lead in "War on Terror" | AlterNet (26.11.08)
The new European laws reducing civil rights range from introducing biometric control devices such as computerised passports and the digital registration of fingerprints to surveillance and storage of all telephone and Internet traffic and transaction data, including bank operations. On the question of homeland security, we are facing the dismantling of traditional democratic controls. Parliaments are forced to ratify all government decisions in this matter without questioning, and without the right to discuss and eventually reject elements of the laws.
Wie Bundesinnenminister Schäuble mit fingierten Zusammenhängen Propaganda macht | Michael Lohmann, Telepolis (06.10.08)
Viele Argumente des Bundesinnenministers können als falsch widerlegt werden. Die Fehler beruhen aber nicht darauf, dass Schäuble sich in der Sache irrt. Sie sind Teil einer kalkulierten politischen Strategie. Schäubles falsche Argumente sollen eine Wirklichkeit suggerieren, in der seine Vorstellungen von Sicherheitspolitik realistisch, dringend geboten und vernünftig erscheinen.
Das Landgericht Köln und das Geheimnis der E-Mails | Telepolis (29.09.08)
Geheime Verschlusssache: Ein seltsames Urteil des Landgerichts Köln verunsichert die Fachpresse
Khulumani's Reparations Case and the Future of Human Rights | Global Policy Forum (06.01.05)
The Khulumani case is being taken on appeal in a process that will demand that the merits of its case are more carefully reviewed and discerned. The case is viewed in the international human rights movement as the strongest case yet in enforcing international norms in respect of the behaviours of foreign multinational companies.
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on 29 June 2004, the United States
Supreme Court, in the case of Sosa v Alverez, held that foreigners
could use the Alien Tort Claims Act to institute lawsuits in the United
States for human rights abuses wherever they may be committed in the
world. -
What are the merits of the Khulumani lawsuit? While other 'apartheid
lawsuits' sought 'open-ended' redress for all black South Africans born
in the country between 1948 and 1994, the Khulumani lawsuit, rather,
seeks limited individual, tailored relief for identified victims from
private actors - those foreign multinational corporations which
violated international law and were involved in colluding with the
apartheid state's security apparatuses. With the support of these
corporations, the apartheid government committed extra-judicial
killing, torture, sexual assault, prolonged arbitrary detention, and
multiple crimes against humanity. - 1 more annotations...
China plans to challenge World Trade Organization findings on tariff violations | JURIST (22.07.08)
re: auto parts
"Ich würde von einer Ermüdungstaktik sprechen" | Heiko Habbe (14.07.08)
Heiko Habbe, ein Redakteur des Grundrechte-Reports, zum Stand der Dinge
Class action apartheid case to resume following US Supreme Court ruling | JURIST (06.07.08)
South Africa: Grant Temporary Status to All Zimbabweans | HRW (19.06.08)
HRW urges South Africa to grant temporary asylum and work permits to Zimbabweans who have fled to the country. The group said that the South African Department of Home Affairs has mischaracterized the refugees fleeing "political repression and economic deprivation," as ordinary migrants and that massive government deportation efforts are in violation of international law. It calls on the government to legitimize the status of Zimbabweans in the country and to allow new refugees to enter legally.
Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua and Chile call for end to child labor | Xinhua (13.06.08)
Brazil's President da Silva signed a decree that widens the scope of what can be classified as child labor in the country, including domestic work in the same category as slavery, sexual exploitation and drug trafficking. The president said the decree provided government inspectors with instruments to punish slavery.
China human rights lawyers denied license renewals | JURIST (30.05.08)
The Beijing Judicial Bureau has refused to renew the licenses of a number of Chinese human rights lawyers before a Saturday deadline, a China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group official said Friday. The bureau originally denied renewals to 500 lawyers, but eventually agreed to renew some licenses after the lawyers released a letter of complaint on the Internet.
Lane v Halliburton: Halliburton Unit Risked Civilian Lives, Lawsuits Say | Bloomberg (15.09.07)
The families claim Halliburton's KBR Inc. unit, the largest U.S. military contractor in Iraq, sent unarmed civilians into active combat zones in 2004 knowing they would be attacked and possibly killed by Iraqis.
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KBR's managers were required to follow military orders and
send civilian convoys to deliver fuel to troops fighting enemy
forces near Baghdad's airport in April and October of 2004, the
company said in court filings. KBR could have faced ``liability
for breach of contract, fines and possible imprisonment'' had it
stopped the convoys, KBR's attorney James Hall of Jones Day in
Houston said last month in a motion to dismiss Lane's lawsuit.
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