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  • Spanish parliament votes against courts' world human rights role

    05/19/2009 12:03:03 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 13 replies · 572+ views
    Monsters & Critics ^ | May 19, 2009
    Madrid - By an overwhelming majority, Spain's parliament Tuesday evening approved a bill to curb the country's judges' controversial role in pursuing human rights cases worldwide. The vote was 339 in favour to 8 opposed to a bill to curb the powers of the National Court's to pursue human rights violations around the world. The reform bill stipulates that in the future, the court should only act on cases when Spanish nationals are affected. The huge majority for the bill came after the Socialist government and the conservative opposition had agreed on the text of the reform. The vote comes...