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12 Jun 2023, 5:51 am by Jesse Marks
The United Nations (U.N.) cross-border aid lifeline upon which this population depends is once again up for renewal this July, but the diplomatic rehabilitation of the Assad regime casts that renewal into doubt. [read post]
9 Jun 2023, 1:06 pm by Ilya Somin
Current private sponsorship programs started with Uniting for Ukraine in April of last year, but have since been expanded to include migrants from four other nations beset by violence and oppression, and a pilot program for people who fit the legal definition of "refugee. [read post]
Statistics aside, Indigenous people in Canada have themselves expressed frustration with the way the federal government has handled the issue since the National Inquiry’s final report. [read post]
6 Jun 2023, 1:57 pm by Elin Hofverberg
Some of the correspondence from this time has been preserved and can be found at the Swedish National Archives, including letters from Gustav Vasa where he asks for help from knights and rich farmers in regions of Skåne, Blekinge, and Halland to fight against the oppression of Christian II. [read post]
6 Jun 2023, 5:55 am by Tess Graham
The unprecedented week-long discussion at the United Nations offered a glimpse at the opportunities a treaty might hold to advance gender justice. [read post]
2 Jun 2023, 3:27 pm by John Floyd
When faced with endorsing his behavior and paying for his official oppression, Paxton’s fellow Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives finally had enough of the attorney general’s corrupt shenanigans. [read post]
Imagine a Western nation where people are called upon to publicly bend a knee before others whom they are told they have oppressed; to renounce their “privilege;” to denounce themselves and others members of their (arbitrarily defined) group as oppressors; where mass-produced signs and banners bear slogans reinforcing the messaging; where the Government endorses agreement with the messaging as signifying who are the good people among us and… [read post]
2 Jun 2023, 10:01 am by Eugene Volokh
(For instance, is speech that harshly condemns Palestinian nationalism intended to condemn a particular nationality, or to incite hostility to that nationality? [read post]
31 May 2023, 5:48 am by JURIST Staff
Not only that, we can also get arrested for sharing news about the PDF [the People’s Defense Force], NUG [the National Unity Government] and sanctions against the juntas. [read post]
26 May 2023, 6:15 am by Edgar Chen
Legislation may prevent many of these vulnerable persons, like the 63 Chinese Christians who fled religious persecution in China or others escaping political oppression in Russia, Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela, from establishing roots. [read post]
24 May 2023, 10:00 am by jonathanturley
At the time, politicians scrambled for cameras to declare, as did Alderwoman Rossana Rodríguez, that Chicago must be “a welcoming city for immigrants” and reaffirmed that “our city is responsible for acting with solidarity towards the people that are the most marginalized and the most impacted by a system that oppresses them. [read post]
23 May 2023, 8:55 pm by Lawrence Solum
On the other hand, menstrual injustice is the oppression of people who menstruate simply because they menstruate, and our society does not yet accept and accommodate menstruation as normal. [read post]
17 May 2023, 3:45 am by Jon Hyman
 According to its website, IJM "is a team of … professionals inspired by God's call to love all people and to seek justice," whose "staff members are Christians from a variety of traditions who are inspired by God’s call to love all people and to seek justice for those who are oppressed," and who "find strength and encouragement in sharing a spiritual life together. [read post]
16 May 2023, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Most of these people lived on farms and plantations across the southern part of the nation. [read post]
15 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
However, because of the grave discrimination caste-oppressed Californians face, these existing protections must be made explicit.So SB 403 is, it seems, a statutory proposal that doesn’t really modify the regulatory reach of existing law but that some people think will provide helpful certainty. [read post]
14 May 2023, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
If law ensures that those sacrifices are properly valued and compensated, whether through takings doctrine or through public policies fully absorbing the costs of reproduction that women disproportionately bear (free contraception and childcare, paid parental leave, maternal healthcare to significantly reduce maternal mortality, for instance), the expectation that women become mothers would be far less oppressive than it is presently. [read post]
12 May 2023, 6:26 am by Adam Cox
In so doing, the Biden administration may well leave many vulnerable people without any avenue of protection. [read post]