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4 Jun 2020, 4:48 pm by Rohit De
I was looking at histories of civil liberty lawyering across territories that had been part of the British empire, most of my lawyers were engaged in resisting the powers of a variety of Emergency regimes, be it during anti-colonial wars of independence (Kenya, Malaysia, Cyprus); struggles of postcolonial state formation (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), or during military occupation (postwar Europe). [read post]
4 Mar 2020, 6:33 am by Kari Hong
Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam, a member of the ethnic minority Tamil population in Sri Lanka who was apprehended just inside the U.S. border, sought asylum, claiming a fear of persecution in his native country. [read post]
27 Feb 2020, 12:52 pm by Eva Lopez
He fled to the United States seeking asylum after being abducted and tortured by government agents. [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 4:43 am by DONALD SCARINCI
However, a subsequent joint rule limited the section’s geographic scope to the United States and the high seas. [read post]
24 Feb 2020, 11:17 am by Ashoka Mukpo
After recovering he went into hiding, and in 2016 he decided to flee to the United States. [read post]
13 Feb 2020, 6:00 am by Aditi Shah
He escaped Sri Lanka to Mexico in June 2016 and in February 2017 crossed the border and entered the United States. [read post]
15 Jul 2019, 11:17 am by Hadley Baker, Vishnu Kannan
ICYMI: Last Weekend on Lawfare Jacques Singer-Emery and Patrick McDonnell assessed recent developments at the military commission in United States v. [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 7:24 am
Its purpose is to "monitor, investigate, and submit to congress an annual report on the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, and to provide recommendations, where appropriate, to Congress for legislative and administrative action. [read post]
14 Jun 2016, 3:19 am
(Statement by Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein on the Opening of the 32nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council (13 June 2013), p. 11)In the United States of America, although federal civil rights legislation has had undeniable positive impact, many African Americans in particular struggle to achieve their rights to full equality. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 3:45 pm
In MP and NT (Sri Lanka) v SSHD [2014] EWCA Civ 829, the Court of Appeal found that the UKUT had adequately justified its adoption of a more restrictive (‘less generous’) standard for who would be at risk upon return to Sri Lanka than that of by the UNHCR. [read post]
24 Jan 2016, 8:47 am by Thomas Valenti
In this regard paper refers to established mediation practices that can be found in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and also Greece, with its recent introduction of mediation. [read post]
29 May 2015, 12:49 pm
Other plaintiffs included a Tamil-American physician and several Tamil-American organizations in the United States that sought to support the lawful activities of the [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam] in Sri Lanka. [read post]
15 Jul 2012, 5:10 pm by INFORRM
  The Guardian reports an IPSOS poll finding that nearly half of South Africans say that the Government’s proposed protection of state information bill (pdf), would make it easier for government officials to hide corruption Sri Lanka. [read post]