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The price for Kosovo’s independence from Serbia

11 August 2008 – 11:09

There are a large number of areas in a large number of countries where there is a dominant ethnic minority (vis-a-vis the majority nationality in the main part of the country). In Estonia for example North East Estonia, where there are 95% ethnic Russians living in the city of Narva. The same applied for Kosovo [...]

By Kari | Also posted in european union, human rights, russia, thoughts | Comments (0)

Legal study on homophobia in Estonia

5 July 2008 – 22:26

Now that my active participation with TEN and EYP is over, I have been focusing my activities on human rights issues. Namely, I am working to establish in the long-term an Estonian Human Rights Centre, the first step has been to create the Human Rights Centre at International University Audentes. 
One of the projects I have undertaken [...]

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“I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.”

2 July 2008 – 21:59

The above quote from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland was evoked by a judge in the first decision since the US Supreme Court ruled that Guantanamo Bay prisoners should have recourse to civil courts. The court said:
First, the government suggests that several of the assertions in the intelligence documents are reliable because they are made in at [...]

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Rule of law makes a comeback in the US?

13 June 2008 – 10:45

The Boumediene v. Bush decision of the US Supreme Court is an interesting read for anyone interested in Constitutional law, common law in general, the principle of checks and balances etc. Regarding the history of habeas corpus:
Even so, from an early date it was understood that the King, too, was subject to the law. As the writers said [...]

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