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8 Jun 2024, 8:33 am by familoo
That’s what the Harm report said in 2020[2], and the Government agreed before commissioning an ‘urgent’ review of the legislative provisions in s1(2A) Children Act. [read post]
6 Jun 2024, 9:01 pm by renholding
The directive introduces obligations for large EU and non-EU companies related to compliance with human rights and the impact on the environment in their operations and supply chains. [read post]
5 Jun 2024, 6:05 am by Maria J. Stephan
The violence and threats are punishing those who face police and non-State violence while exercising the fundamental right to protest human rights abuses – and they are disproportionately Black and Brown Americans. [read post]
4 Jun 2024, 5:51 am by Melissa Stewart
Public hearings in the request for an advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) began in April 2024 in Barbados and continued at the end of May in Brazil. [read post]
31 May 2024, 9:30 pm by Rob Robinson
The law encompasses a wide range of aspects related to AI and aims to protect the rights and safety of individuals while fostering economic growth through technological innovation. [read post]
31 May 2024, 7:00 am by Rogier Bartels
Before the military commission set up by the United States for those individuals held in Guantanamo Bay, Mr. [read post]
31 May 2024, 6:29 am by INFORRM
Citing the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, the PPF notes the bill “proposes a parallel judicial structure for defamation claims, which […] violates fundamental rights and due process. [read post]
30 May 2024, 5:49 am by Amos Toh
The researchers attributed this to a provision in the law that lets employers decide whether their hiring tools “substantially assist or replace” human decision-making – a discretionary assessment that parallels OMB’s. [read post]
27 May 2024, 8:13 am by Jonathan Rosenfeld
  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) The EEOC makes it illegal to discriminate against workers based on their nation of origin (i.e. where they were born), race, or ethnicity. [read post]
27 May 2024, 8:00 am
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a male manager at that location “sexually harassed” an employee by engaging in “unwanted sexual advances, sexual comments and sexually offensive conduct, including sexual contact. [read post]
25 May 2024, 5:36 am by Amichai Cohen
Granted, the Prosecutor also listed other alleged violations of the Rome Statute, such as the war crimes of willfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health or cruel treatment, willful killing or murder, and intentionally directing attacks against civilians, and Crimes against Humanity such as extermination, murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts. [read post]
24 May 2024, 7:05 am by Akila Radhakrishnan
As we and colleagues previously wrote, U.N. member States have a unique and time-sensitive opportunity to codify the crime of gender apartheid in the proposed crimes against humanity treaty. [read post]
23 May 2024, 6:05 am by Kelly Adams
General Assembly resolution calling for a series of such sessions to discuss elements of the International Law Commission’s (ILC’s) draft treaty, which was developed to address gaps in international law in combatting crimes against humanity. [read post]
22 May 2024, 5:30 am by Todd Buchwald
  One can agree or disagree with the Prosecutor’s decision on Afghanistan – and, indeed, many human rights organizations and other advocates criticized it harshly – but there is no question as a political matter that the Prosecutor’s signal paved a political path for a more constructive relationship with the United States. [read post]
20 May 2024, 3:43 pm by Xandra Kramer
The mentioned Rome II Evaluation Study (2021) commissioned by the Commission, summarised on this blog here, assessed Rome II’s applicability to matters pertaining to business and human rights in detail. [read post]
20 May 2024, 3:00 am by Yosi Yahoudai
Kalyanam Shivkumar pondered how to fix the human heart, he was given a gift laced with horror. [read post]
17 May 2024, 4:43 am by Matthias Weller
We wish to take this opportunity to look back on the eventful journey that the European Union and the United Kingdom have embarked on in judicial cooperation since Brexit (I.) as well as to venture a look ahead on what may be expected from the prospective collaboration within and perhaps even alongside the HCCH system (II.). [read post]