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22 Sep 2020, 2:01 am
Jacob Schulz talked through these issues with Vera Mironova, a research fellow at Harvard and, among other things, author of a recent Lawfare post interviewing four women in these camps, and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, the United Nations special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism. [read post]
24 Dec 2019, 2:00 am
” GQUAL, a global campaign to achieve gender parity in the composition of international tribunals and monitoring bodies, worked with the United Nations Working Group on Discrimination against Women (WG) and the Mission of Mexico in Geneva to develop language for this year’s Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution promoting gender balance in United Nations (UN) international bodies. [read post]
10 Jul 2023, 6:37 am
This network of States is working to roll back democratic and human rights principles at the United Nations, affiliated bodies like the World Health Organization, crucial intergovernmental agencies such as Interpol, and regional groupings including the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). [read post]
31 Mar 2021, 5:59 pm
That points toward building a moderately prosperous society and the elimination of poverty for a community firmly behind the vanguard party. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 8:29 am
” Researchers looking for human rights in a world region or a specific country, can look under the geographic subheading, such as Human Rights – Asia,” or “Human Rights—United States,” simply insert whichever country or region you are researching . [read post]
26 Sep 2015, 5:41 pm
China's President Xi Jinping is on a state visit to the United States. [read post]
18 Aug 2021, 11:41 am
For now, the United States and its allies remain in control of Kabul’s international airport, where they are engaged in a race against the clock to evacuate both their own nationals and at least some vulnerable Afghans. [read post]
18 Jun 2020, 2:19 am
Humane Society Legislative Fund and Humane Society of the United States are pleased to present Senators Pat Toomey, R-Pa, and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Representatives Ted Deutch, D-Fla., and Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., with our 2019 Humane Legislators of the Year Award for their successful leadership in establishing a national anti-cruelty law, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act. [read post]
Dog rescuers reap donations and spend the money acquiring more dogs from "puppy mill" type breeders.
12 Apr 2018, 7:22 am
At the auctions, rescuers have purchased dogs from some of the same breeders who face activist protests, including some on the Humane Society of the United States’ “Horrible Hundred” list or the “No Pet Store Puppies” database of breeders to avoid, maintained by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. [read post]
3 Jun 2012, 12:57 am
We live in a free and democratic society that may not be perfect, but to throw Canada under the bus for violating human rights is needlessly fractious. [read post]
10 Sep 2023, 9:05 pm
For instance, the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights stated that if a company’s ABC efforts reveal labor inspectors demanding payments, then the company should be aware that inspected companies are at high-risk for poor working conditions. [read post]
19 Jul 2021, 10:51 am
For years, the ACLU and civil society organizations have urged administrations to extend similar invitations to thematic human rights experts. [read post]
20 Dec 2017, 6:53 am
About the Authors: Sital Kalantry is a clinical professor of law at Cornell Law School and author of Women’s Human Rights and Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Law in the United States and India (2017). [read post]
18 Jan 2011, 3:12 pm
The Oklahoman, December 4, 2010 by Ty Alper http://newsok.com/oklahomas-lethal-injection-process-not-fit-for-animals/article/3520375 The Humane Society of the United States also condemns the use of paralyzing drugs in animal euthanasia. [read post]
27 Mar 2009, 9:20 am
This is interesting because it is a case of bad reporting, in that, the reporter failed to look at the site mentioned by the legislator Humane Society of the United States which cites a page full of statistics proving their contention.3-27-2009 Florida:Of all the thorny, polarizing, and controversial subjects that a state legislator must handle, Sen. [read post]
14 Dec 2017, 11:58 am
Women with no access to paid family and medical leave are more likely to lose income, and lack of paid leave can also limit a child’s health and development.Low-wage workers deserve to have their human rights protected.On this anniversary of the UDHR, the United Nations is conducting a fact-finding tour to examine whether people living in poverty in the United States enjoy fundamental human rights. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 12:12 pm
The Humane Society of the United States has helped push a proposal to appear on November ballots concerning puppy mills in Missouri. [read post]
18 Jul 2019, 9:00 pm
Thus, STF may issue a stopgap measure to prevent the continued violation of rights until Congress acts to do so itself.In the United States, the closest analog to the principle of the legislative omission is in tort law. [read post]
5 Jun 2013, 9:30 pm
Cribbing now from the IU website:Image creditFelicity Turner's research uses narratives of infanticide as recorded in newspapers, inquests, and court cases to trace changes in conceptions of gender, race, and the human body in the nineteenth-century United States. [read post]
12 May 2009, 9:16 pm
Department of Justice has intervened on the side of the Humane Society of the United States in litigation against a southern California beef slaughterhouse that was caught on tape abusing cattle. [read post]
