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3 Feb 2021, 4:00 am by Ken Chasse
In October 2020, Bloc Québécois[2] leader Yves-François Blanchet asked Prime Minister Justice Trudeau to apologize for the federal Government’s having invoked the War Measures Act 50 years ago (thereby suspending civil liberties and personal freedoms).[3] Adding to terrorist-support was France’s President and World War Two (WWII) hero, Charles de Gaulle’s July 24, 1967, very undiplomatic rallying cry for the Québec separatist movement… [read post]
2 Feb 2021, 7:22 am by Abby Lemert, Eleanor Runde
On Thursday, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson Wu Qian stated: “Taiwan independence means war. [read post]
1 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm by Lesley Wexler and Nicola Sharpe
Norway paved the way in 2008, mandating public companies dedicate 40% of their director positions to women. [read post]
1 Feb 2021, 9:29 am by William Ford, Victoria Gallegos
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, February 1, 2021, at 3:00 p.m.: Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute will host a series of webinars on the election reform agenda of H.R. 1, the For the People Act, moderated by moderated by Nathaniel Persily, law professor at Stanford Law School, and Didi Kuo, associate director for research at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. [read post]
31 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
The Trump administration was a four-year-long war on women’s health. [read post]
30 Jan 2021, 3:19 pm by Eugene Volokh
[The defendant swore a Verizon store employee "cupped her breast and touched her inner thigh," but surveillance video showed otherwise.] [read post]
29 Jan 2021, 12:20 pm by Legal Help for Veterans
  Margaret Klessens enlisted in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943 and served until the end of the war. [read post]
On January 8, 2021, a South Korean district court ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to a group of former “comfort women (慰安婦),” also known as victims of sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II. [read post]
26 Jan 2021, 9:17 am by Serafima Karkkila
Read more here: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/developmentofrussianlaw/category/russian-law-talks/ 8) Violations of the Right to Peaceful Assembly for Women and Girls in Russia from 2010 to 2020 (On behalf of OVD-info) We prepared this review in June as a response to a request from the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association: at the 75th session of the UN General Assembly… [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 12:16 pm by Jason Kelley
Alaa Abd El Fattah‚ who has been arrested (and eventually released) by every Egyptian head of state, including during the revolution‚ and Amal Fathy, an activist for women’s rights, are just two of the prominent critics of the government whose use of the Internet has cost them their freedom. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 11:06 am
Here's the abstract: Human dignity is a classical concept in public international law, and a core element of the human rights machinery built after the Second World War. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 11:02 am
Trump's adherents as well in their essentialisztion of oppositional positions as "socialism"); (3) the rise of a politics of "shared national identity" (this later point likely to be fleshed out in the narrative wars that will ramp up again in the coming months, though this is one several generations in the making). [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 4:05 am
 We reignited America’s job creation and achieved record-low unemployment for African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women, almost everyone. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 10:47 am by William Ford, Tia Sewell
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Tuesday, January 19, 2021, at 10:00 a.m.: The Senate Intelligence Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of Avril Haines to be the next director of national intelligence. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
”  So, for example, Leslie Goldstein’s belief that the post-Civil War amendments “decidedly amounted to a revolutionary transformation” is arguably more palpably evident than her assignment of a similar designation to the gains for women’s rights wrought by the Supreme Court in the 1970s. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In 2020 Gandhi was named by the Time magazine among world’s 100 powerful women who defined the last century. [read post]