2003

2002

• Burmese Win Appeal in U.S. Alien Tort Case Against Unocal
  
  
• President Bush Signs Executive Order Authorizing Military Tribunals
  
  
• U.S. Court Gives Justice Department More Power to Wiretap Citizens
  
  

2001

• Mexico Considers Truth Commission
  
  
• New Court for Khmer Rouge Trial
  
  
• Organization of African Unity (OAU) becomes the African Union (AU)
  
  
• Pinochet Declared Unfit for Trial in Chile
  
  
• The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
  
  

2000

• Kosovo Crisis
  
  
• Lawrence Inquiry
  
  
• Israel
  
  
• East Timor