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On Monday, November 9, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether life without parole (LWOP) constitutes cruel and unusual punishment when applied to juveniles. Two cases, Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida, hope to build on the Court's 2004 decision in the pivotal case Roper v. Simmons. In Roper, the Court held that [...] Related posts: Job Posting: Legal Researcher, Texas Supreme Court Permanent Judicial Commission for Children, Youth and Families The Supreme Court of Texas has... Posted on November 2, 2009 at 03:48 pm by Therin Jones

Vietnam's National Assembly struggles to answer a familiar but labyrinthine question: how do you create an international adoption framework that doesn't allow for abuse? Last month, an adoption fraud trial opened in Vietnam, naming sixteen charity and medical workers as defendants. All of the individuals were found guilty of fraud in over 266 adoptions, generating fake [...] Related posts: The controversy over Uruguay's new same-sex adoption law Following a polemic debate, the Parliament in... Posted on October 7, 2009 at 07:58 am by Therin Jones

From Social Innovation Conversations, Siddharth Kara discusses the findings of his most recent book Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Sex trafficking is the most highly profitable - and exploitative - component of contemporary slavery. In this talk, author and former investment banker Siddharth Kara exposes the [...] Related posts: E. Benjamin Skinner: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery E. Benjamin Skinner is a fellow at Carr... Posted on October 1, 2009 at 08:47 am by Luke Gilman

Juvenile Justice Legislation - 2009 JUVENILE RECORDS SB 1218 (Obenshain) Juvenile probation and parole reports; transmission to school superintendent. SB 1377 (Stolle) Juvenile arrest information. HB 2513 (Marsden) Mob violence reportable by intake officers to schools. SB 928 (Marsh) Confidentiality of court records; person inspecting is authorized to have copies made of records. HB 2310 (Melvin) Confidentiality of court records HB 1843 (Griffith) Civil commitment of sexually violent [...] Posted on March 3, 2009 at 02:19 pm by kggodwin

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House Bill 1868, which extends the zero tolerance policy for underage drinking and driving indefinitely, passed the Senate on February 26, 2009 with 97 yeas and 0 nays. Posted on March 3, 2009 at 12:33 am by kggodwin

The State of the World's Children report, published by UNICEF, has just this week issued a special edition of the report in commemoration of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Released on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Convention's adoption by the UN General Assembly, "The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most ratified human rights treaty in human history," said UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman. "It has transformed the way children are viewed and treated... Posted on November 20, 2009 at 10:10 pm by Cassandra Clifford

According to a recently released UNICEF report, Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Development, some 200 million children in the developing world currently suffer from stunted growth, due to chronic undernutrition. Chronic undernutrition, is a factor in over a third of all deaths in children under five years-old. This often unnoticed and often silent killer, preys on children most as time and again it rears its ugly head when it has become acute. The unseen suffering in children who often... Posted on November 20, 2009 at 12:21 am by Cassandra Clifford

UNFPA: Impoverished women bear brunt of climate change The UN Population Fund has found the world's primary agricultural workers - impoverished women - will bear the brunt of catastrophic climate change resulting from global warming. The UNFPA called for greater equality for women to relieve the disproportionate burden they are bound to experience from weather-related natural disasters, and their consequences for food, water and energy. Food summit finds little financing for global-hunger fight... Posted on November 18, 2009 at 10:19 pm by Cassandra Clifford