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In practice, a “robot tax” would have the effect of incentivizing companies to retain human workers for longer periods of time, and its proceeds could be used to fund other parts of the transition process, notably job retraining or universal basic income. [read post]
10 Feb 2021, 7:57 am by Emma DiNapoli, Rifaat Makkawi
Where needed, the U.S. should offer technical advice and support in the drafting of implementing legislation, and it should fund civil society efforts to educate the general public on “know your rights” campaigns and other local monitoring efforts to ensure greater levels of treaty compliance. [read post]
9 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm by Lesley Wexler
These celebrities have initiated the #MeToo hashtag; shared their stories publicly through courttestimony, congressional testimony, news outlets and social media; and created and funded institutions to educate, litigate, and legislate. [read post]
8 Feb 2021, 11:36 am by William Ford, Victoria Gallegos
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Tuesday, February 9, 2021, at 9:00 a.m.: The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) will host an online conversation about the New START arms control treaty. [read post]
1 Feb 2021, 9:29 am by William Ford, Victoria Gallegos
The subcommittee will hear testimony from Luciana Borio, the vice president of In-Q-Tel and the former acting chief scientist at the Food and Drug Administration; Greg Burel, the former director of the Strategic National Stockpile; Michael Leavitt, the former secretary of health and human services and Julie Morita, the executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. [read post]
26 Jan 2021, 9:17 am by Serafima Karkkila
The grant-funded postdoctoral researcher will receive a monthly grant directly from the Kone Foundation and will be hosted at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 9:05 pm by Dan Flynn
They left it to Sara Amundson, president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund to announce that the Biden government has officially withdrawn a pending rule by the previous administration that would have permanently allowed chicken slaughter lines to speed up from an already “lightning-fast 140 birds per minute to 175 per minute. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 1:17 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
The Humane Society Legislative Fund had been working with key leaders in the House and Senate to advance a shift on this issue, directing the USDA to review its policy in the recently enacted omnibus appropriations package and critical lobbying to urge candidate Biden to speak out about line speeds on the campaign trail. [read post]
24 Jan 2021, 7:44 am
The course explores the roles, authority, and limitations of the institutions and actors at each level and the implications of these for domestic and transnational governance, development, human rights, commerce, migration, and civil society. [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
Historians preparing to reckon with his legacy say it is not just Trump who will be examined in the harsh reflection of history’s mirror, but also American society and the nation’s commitment to democracy. [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 11:02 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Restoring America’s Global Standing President Biden will take steps to restore America’s standing in the world, strengthening the U.S. national security workforce, rebuilding democratic alliances across the globe, championing America’s values and human rights, and equipping the American middle class to succeed in a global economy. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 9:30 am by USPTO
Importantly, we maintained continuity of operations during the pandemic and during a government shutdown due to lapse in funding. [read post]
16 Jan 2021, 6:36 am
That is necessary precisely because Sports autonomy is always conditional on its attachment to the cloth of the societies in which and for which [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 8:28 am by kblocher@hslf.org
As partners and supporters of the Humane Society Legislative Fund, you are already doing your part. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 5:33 am by kblocher@hslf.org
” Media contact: Emily Ehrhorn, (202) 779-1814, eehrhorn@humanesociety.org   ## The Humane Society Legislative Fund is a social welfare organization incorporated under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code and formed in 2004 as a separate lobbying affiliate of The Humane Society of the United States. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 5:08 am by kblocher@hslf.org
Yet the remaining chimps at Alamogordo continue to languish at the very facility where they were used in research protocols,” said Sara Amundson, president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 4:00 am by Canadian Association of Law Libraries
This research is funded in part by the New Zealand Law Foundation and is part of the Cambridge Studies in Law and Society Series. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 11:53 am
  Those interlinkages, in turn, suggest consequences for the character of each and their respective role in the organization and management of human collectives (states, global production chains, civil society, and the like). [read post]