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17 Mar 2014, 8:18 am by Carole (Staff Lawyer)
Peace officers from the Alberta SPCA, the Calgary Humane Society and the Edmonton Humane Society are appointed by the Solicitor General of Alberta and the Minister of Public Security to enforce the Animal Protection Act. [read post]
16 Mar 2014, 7:40 am
Many potential migrants are also trapped in societies where they are denied basic human rights, such as freedom of speech, religion, and private property. [read post]
14 Mar 2014, 9:00 am by Judith Gaskell
The authority given to the Department of Health and Human Services to regulate and inspect food can be found in volume 21 of the United States Code in sections 321, 341, 343, 348, 371 and 379e. [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 4:11 am by Benjamin Wittes
In the fall of 2001, however, the United States went to war against a transnational terrorist organization. [read post]
Doing so violated the First Amendment and created a chilling effect on all journalists reporting in the United States. [read post]
A separate provision of the statute defines “[p]artially nude” as “the exposure of the human genitals, buttocks, pubic area or female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola. [read post]
11 Mar 2014, 7:56 pm by Guest Blogger
First, it is not clear that IPR to promote commercial experimentation has a strong historic basis in patent and intellectual property law at all – at least not as it developed in the United States circa 1787. [read post]
11 Mar 2014, 4:55 pm
  The Civil Society Section of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has embarked on an important fact gathering endeavor.We are pleased to forward the questionnaire on local government and human rights, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 24/2.Delegations are kindly requested to submit their responses to the questionnaire to the Secretariat by 11 April 2014. [read post]
11 Mar 2014, 2:09 pm by Rick St. Hilaire
President and CEO of the Humane Society of the U.S., Wayne Pacelle, explains the trade volume and makes a case for the ban in his A Humane Nation blog:But the sad truth is that the U.S. is the second largest ivory marketplace after China, partly because it’s legal to trade in “antique” ivory more than 100 years old, ivory imported to the U.S. before Asian and African elephants received protection under the U.S. [read post]
Over that same period of time, the United States of America has spent over $120 billion to arrest some 37 million people for non-violent drug offenses. [read post]
10 Mar 2014, 10:02 pm by Erica Meier
In 2008, the Humane Society of the United States uncovered abuses at Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co., another dairy cow slaughter plant in California. [read post]
10 Mar 2014, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
  The first is James Oakes, Distinguished Professor of History and Graduate School Humanities Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the author of Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 and The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 4:38 pm by Stephen Bilkis
On May 27, 1975 the United States Supreme Court declared that juvenile defendants are entitled to the protections of the 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 8:41 am by WIMS
EPA is initiating an external peer review of the agency's draft human health effects documents for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS). [read post]
2 Mar 2014, 8:52 am by Drew Falkenstein
He also was the first scientist in the United States to detect human rotavirus, which had been discovered by others in Australia. [read post]
28 Feb 2014, 5:45 am by Doorey
Some human rights codes protect “political opinion” as an anti-discriminatory ground, but this has rarely been invoked to defend dissenting academics. [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 8:27 am
  Humanity’s best hope thus remains a revitalized United Nations and a pro-active General Assembly that will deploy preventive strategies and henceforth implement the pledge to spare humanity from the barbarity of war more effectively. [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 8:25 am by WIMS
<> Climate Change: Evidence & Causes - The Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences, with their similar missions to promote the use of science to benefit society and to inform critical policy debates, offer this new publication as a key reference document for decision makers, policy makers, educators, and other individuals seeking authoritative answers about the current state of climate change science. [read post]