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29 Feb 2024, 5:00 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
Despite legislative advances, including The Act Relating to Persons with Disabilities, persons with disabilities continue to experience discrimination in accessing public services, education, and health care. [read post]
28 Feb 2024, 5:50 am by Lia van Broekhoven
Nonprofit organizations and human rights defenders and their vital work worldwide are getting tangled in a web of legislative, regulatory, and policy strictures set up to combat financial crime but that too often result in “unintended consequences,” hampering everything from humanitarian aid to community conflict prevention. [read post]
28 Feb 2024, 3:50 am by kblocher@hslf.org
“The pork lobby wants to frame this as California vs. the rest of the country, but there are 15 states including Arizona, Florida, Kentucky, Ohio and Utah that have bans on extreme confinement of farm animals—proving that animal welfare is not a partisan issue,” said Sara Amundson, president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 10:30 am by Eugene Volokh
For those interested in the First Amendment questions, here's our brief; I assume that the issues are likely to arise again in future cases: Summary of Argument Suicide is an enduring, though tragic, facet of human existence. [read post]
19 Feb 2024, 11:33 pm by Giesela Ruehl
For this purpose, we are pleased to invite contributions from both public and private law perspectives on the following topics:   Topic 1: Climate crisis The ecological crisis caused by climate change represents the defining challenge of our time, posing an existential threat to human societies and the planet. [read post]
18 Feb 2024, 6:16 pm by Elise Baker
We have identified four potential sources of Syria-linked funds, which could be directed to a victims fund through policy or legislative action. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 11:41 pm by Lawrence Norden
(Congress enjoys relatively broad – though not unconstrained – authority to issue subpoenas to private parties in aid of its legislative functions, according to Supreme Court precedent.) [read post]
14 Feb 2024, 6:05 am by Ousmane Diallo
People took to the streets, disrupting the planned parliamentary vote on the term limit legislation, which in turn prompted the army to intervene and mediate between the government and the protesters. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 12:25 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
Senate fiscal year 2024 appropriations bill that funds the Department of Health and Human Services. [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 12:16 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
In 2021, after Idaho and Montana enacted even more aggressive wolf-killing laws, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund and Sierra Club petitioned the Fish and Wildlife Service to again protect gray wolves in the northern Rockies. [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 7:57 am by Karen Gullo
Statement to be submitted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, accredited under operative paragraph No. 9 of UN General Assembly Resolution 75/282, on behalf of 124 signatories. [read post]
3 Feb 2024, 5:00 am by Public Employment Law Press
Legislators have proposed legislation to lower the blood alcohol level for arrest to .05, down from the current .08. [read post]
3 Feb 2024, 5:00 am by Public Employment Law Press
Legislators have proposed legislation to lower the blood alcohol level for arrest to .05, down from the current .08. [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 11:34 am by kblocher@hslf.org
In response to Idaho and Montana’s aggressive new laws, the Humane Society of the United States, the Humane Society Legislative Fund and our allies filed a legal petition in May 2021 urging the U.S. [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 12:25 am by kblocher@hslf.org
Fish and Wildlife Service announced it would not be relisting wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the Endangered Species Act, after the Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund, Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club petitioned the Fish and Wildlife Service to immediately restore federal protections to these wolves. [read post]
13 Jan 2024, 4:31 pm by INFORRM
The petitioners, members of civil society, alleged that during the protests, internet service was interrupted and the cell phone signal was cut, violating their rights to freedom of expression, association, and assembly. [read post]
10 Jan 2024, 5:00 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
She has worked with several organizations, including the UN system, multilateral and bilateral agencies, academia, think tanks, and civil society. [read post]