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Symposium on Business and Human Rights (BHR) Regulatory Initiatives Outside Europe: Part 3: Keren Adams--"A Race to the Top? Progress and pitfalls of Australia’s Modern Slavery Act"
14 Jun 2024, 2:57 am
Adams points to the market and its failures as a principal cause of the failures of transparency regimes driven by markets or non-state organs (for a consideration HERE). [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Georgia enacts controversial ‘foreign agent’ law despite large-scale protests
3 Jun 2024, 11:09 am by Yevheniia Khoroshun | V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National U. School of Law, UA
” The United States also condemned the Georgian parliament for overriding the presidential veto of the law. [read post]
JURIST - Paper Chase - https://www.jurist.org/news/
Imprisoned Writer Serving 9 Years Illustrates Vietnam’s Crackdown on Expression
17 May 2024, 5:45 am by Anh-Thu Vo
(Photo by Thinh Nguyen/Courtesy PEN America) Her lawyer, Dang Dinh Manh, who fled Vietnam and now lives in the United States, and Trang’s friend and co-founder of the non-profit organization Legal Initiatives for Vietnam, Quynh-Vi Tran, now living in Taiwan, accepted the award on her behalf at PEN America’s literary gala in New York last night. [read post]
Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/
How the Georgian Government, Once a US Ally, Became an Adversary, Against the Wishes of Its Protesting Citizens
14 May 2024, 5:52 am by Ambassador (ret) Ian Kelly
In particular, it increased security cooperation, especially with the United States. [read post]
Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/
A Quarter Century After the Ottawa Landmine Treaty, the World Needs a UN Fund for Victims
9 Apr 2024, 6:06 am by Ben Keith
Human Rights Council in Geneva, I proposed the establishment of a United Nations fund for victims of landmines. [read post]
Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/
We Need to Move Beyond Profit Maximization to Plural Business Purposes
7 Apr 2024, 9:05 pm by renholding
For many business economists and legal academics, the purpose of any business organization is simply stated: to maximize profits. [read post]
The CLS Blue Sky Blog - https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/
Brief Reflections on the 2024 U.S Government National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct
29 Mar 2024, 7:28 pm
In the opening page of the 2016 US NAP, then Secretary of State John Kerry wrote: The United States is committed to promoting human rights and leading the global fight against corruption. . . [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Tracking Tech Company Commitments to Combat the Misuse of AI in Elections
28 Mar 2024, 6:00 am by Allison Mollenkamp
Engaging with civil society and non-profit organizations Signatories of the February 2024 Munich Security Conference tech accord committed to partnering with academia, civil society, and non-profit organizations in addressing the “deceptive use” of AI in elections. [read post]
Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/
A Global Administrative Law for an Era of AI
24 Mar 2024, 9:05 pm by José Ignacio Hernández G.
For instance, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization worked on non-binding global guidelines concerning digital platforms. [read post]
RegBlog - https://www.theregreview.org/
Part 5 (Chapter 4; Historical Foundations of the UNGP Project)--Vetting the Discussion Draft: "The United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights: A Commentary
19 Mar 2024, 6:08 pm
 Pix Credit National Portrait Gallery, Harold Pettit Maples, Back to the Drawing Board 1965 I have been working on the production of a comprehensive commentary of the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights. [read post]
Law at the End of the Day - https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
Israeli Civilian Harm Mitigation in Gaza: Gold Standard or Fool’s Gold?
12 Mar 2024, 6:08 am by Larry Lewis
In 2009, CNA (a not-for-profit research organization) began analyses of civilian harm for the U.S. [read post]
Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/
Zelensky Warns Against Ceasefires as Fighting Rages in Ukraine (March 8, 2024)
9 Mar 2024, 6:50 am by Rob Robinson
ISW is a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy research organization. [read post]
ComplexDiscovery - https://complexdiscovery.com/
CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Modern Day
29 Feb 2024, 9:26 am by GSU Law Student
Photo by Gage Skidmore Bryan StevensonWhile finishing his degree at Harvard Law School, Bryan Stevenson began his exemplary career by working at the Southern Center for Human Rights to represent death row inmates.[1] The experience motivated Stevenson to leave his full-time position with SCHR in Atlanta and move to Alabama, where he founded the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a non-profit human rights organization.[2] Stevenson and EJI have argued and… [read post]
The Blackacre Times - http://theblackacretimes.com/
Rethinking Risk: Reducing Harm to Nonprofits in the Push to Counter Terrorism Financing
28 Feb 2024, 5:50 am by Lia van Broekhoven
A structural relationship through a Memorandum of Understanding between the FATF and the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Countering Terrorism could, for example, help plug this gap and meaningfully support human rights and other international law compliance. [read post]
Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/
It’s Time to Establish a Syria Victims Fund
19 Feb 2024, 5:56 am by Joumana Seif
A simple review of reports by the United Nations and international and Syrian human rights organizations reveals not only victims’ catastrophic current situations, especially for women and children, but also the anticipation of a worse future if their violations and harms are not remedied as required under international human rights and humanitarian law. [read post]
Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/
No State Should Profit from Violations in Syria. Instead, Direct Monetary Recovery to Victims.
18 Feb 2024, 6:16 pm by Elise Baker
At present, the United States and many European countries are effectively profiting off violations of international law in Syria. [read post]
Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/
Top Regulatory News of 2023
28 Dec 2023, 9:05 pm by Noah Brown
” MARCH A federal judge temporarily blocked Texas prosecutors from enforcing current and 60-year-old state laws against organizations that help people travel out of state to have abortions. [read post]
RegBlog - https://www.theregreview.org/
The Religious Liberty Step Too Far That Could Destroy the Common Good If We Let It
26 Dec 2023, 9:02 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
United States and then again in the 1990 decision, Employment Div. v. [read post]
Verdict - http://verdict.justia.com/
New to the Collection: Books on Social Justice
15 Dec 2023, 4:15 pm by Reference Staff
” Check their website for educational videos, Know Your Rights publications, and to learn about eligibility requirements for legal services.The work of similar non-profit organizations is highlighted in Precarious Protections: Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the United States (2023), by assistant professor of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago, Chiara Galli. [read post]
Washington State Law Library - https://medium.com/walawlibrary
The Just Security 2023 Year-End Book Recommendations
8 Dec 2023, 5:55 am by Just Security
As we are a non-profit organization, if you appreciate our work, please consider making a tax-deductible end-of-year donation (link). [read post]
Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/