News tagged with human rights tribunal

Khmer Rouge trials offer baseline study for mental health impact to a society of war crimes tribunal (w/ Video)

As leaders of the former Khmer Rouge regime testify in a human rights tribunal, in harrowing detail, for the killing of more than a million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979 a central medical question remains unanswered: ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Europe's courts under reform pressure: study

Protracted legal proceedings, increasingly complex legal cases and growing criticism of the administration of justice – the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg is overburdened. Research by the Hamburg-based ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Egypt court orders ban of pornographic websites

(AP) -- An Egyptian court has ordered the government to ban pornographic Internet websites in order to protect society and its values.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Civilians 'suffer first, last and in the middle' during wartime, Stanford scholar says

(PhysOrg.com) -- Civilian casualties in war have proliferated despite the international courts, laws and tribunals meant to protect them. What do we do?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Pioneer of online job search starts over again

(AP) -- Bill Warren founded an early online job board in the 1990s, helped kick-start an industry and was president of Monster.com, one of the leading Internet career sites. But these days he's not very happy ...

Technology / Business

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Penn State scientist at center of a storm

A few words culled from some hacked e-mails in Britain have generated chaos in the world of climate science -- throwing dark clouds over Pennsylvania State University and stirring up negative publicity for the field that ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Ubiquitous in U.S., Google struggles for market share in China

In China, Google means underdog. While the Mountain View company dominates the search market in the United States, it is not part of the pop lexicon on the other side of the Pacific. In its nine years in China, ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Google, other Silicon Valley firms nurture app developers

They crowd the lobby of Google's Building 43 one evening a month, waiting to climb the wide stairway under a mock-up of the world's first private spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, prepared to delve deep into the Internet giant's ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google, Yahoo zero in on Internet 'freedom' bill

Google Inc. and other Internet companies have zeroed in on a resilient effort by a Republican lawmaker to pass legislation that could restrict their ability to take a nuanced approach to operating in "repressive" foreign ...

Technology / Internet

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The court will now call its expert witness: the brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- Will advances in neuroscience make the justice system more accurate and unbiased? Or could brain-based testing wrongly condemn some and trample the civil liberties of others? The new field ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genome advances promise personalized medical treatment

A whirlwind of activity is under way to apply the findings of the $3 billion Human Genome Project to improve health care in the United States and around the world.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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