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State Department: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2010

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2010 Human Rights Report, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, released April 8, 2011

  • “This report provides encyclopedic detail on human rights conditions in over 190 countries for 2010. Because we are publishing this report three months into the new year, however, our perspectives on many issues are now framed by the dramatic changes sweeping across countries in the Middle East in 2011. At this moment we cannot predict the outcome of these changes, and we will not know the lasting impacts for years to come. The internal dynamics in each of these countries are different, so sweeping analysis of the entire region is not appropriate. In places like Tunisia and Egypt, we are witnessing popular demands for meaningful political participation, fundamental freedoms, and greater economic opportunity. These demands are profound, they are homegrown, and they are being driven by new activists, many of them young people. These citizens seek to build sustainable democracies in their countries with governments that respect the universal human rights of their own people. If they succeed, the Middle East region, and with it the whole world, will be improved.”

    • World Shale Gas Resources: An Initial Assessment of 14 Regions Outside the United States

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    U.S. Energy Information Administration – World Shale Gas Resources: An Initial Assessment of 14 Regions Outside the United States, April 2011 “The use of horizontal drilling in conjunction with hydraulic fracturing has greatly expanded the ability of producers to profitably produce natural gas from low permeability geologic formations, particularly shale formations. Application of fracturing techniques… Continue Reading

    The Speedy Trial Rights of Military Detainees

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    The Speedy Trial Rights of Military Detainees, Walter E. Kuhn, United States Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights – Syracuse Law Review, Vol. 62, 2011 “The hybrid nature of the War on Terror is testing the limits of the Speedy Trial and Due Process Clauses. Former military detainees have… Continue Reading