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12 Sep 2013, 1:11 am
  A representative of OU Kosher, the world’s largest kosher certification organization, explained,  “[w]e think that if the term ‘kosher,’ which has important meaning in the Jewish religion, is commercialized, it will do a disservice to how religion in general should be treated and will harm the kosher public specifically. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 7:25 am
Liberals have a "usual animosity to religion," and their avoidance of criticism of Islam is "because it is largely a religion of non-whites. [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 6:32 pm by Cindy Cohn
Over the past few years EFF has documented (here, here, here) the increasing use of sophisticated surveillance technologies from the U.S. and European companies to facilitate human rights abuses around the world. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 5:51 am
One subtlety is that prejudice against an ethnic group can be the cause of prejudice against their religion. [read post]
20 Dec 2013, 2:36 pm by Georgialee Lang
Section 41 of British Columbia’s Human Rights Code provides a specific exemption for non-profit religious organizations where the organization’s primary purpose is to promote the interests and welfare of an identified group, characterized by a common religion. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 3:48 pm
Special procedures are either an individual (called "Special Rapporteur" or "Independent Expert") or a working group composed of five members, one from each of the five United Nations regional groupings: Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and the Western group. [read post]
19 Nov 2020, 4:30 pm by INFORRM
The Act – enacted in 2013 after the Constitutional Court had struck down a similar provision in 2005 – was challenged by a group of non-governmental organizations, a Member of Parliament and a prominent church leader. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 9:09 pm by Eugene Volokh
Consequently, the Supreme Court has upheld many exemptions that provide a benefit to religious groups, but not other groups. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 5:03 am by Linda Friedman Ramirez
This global treaty provides a definition of who qualifies as a refugee – a person with a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion – and spells out the rights and obligations between host countries and refugees. .........Denmark was the first state to ratify the 1951 Convention. [read post]
5 May 2017, 6:35 am by Joe May
News & World Report – David Lieb (Associated Press) | Published: 4/29/2017 Gov. [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 5:13 am by Eugene Volokh
Yoga, whether you’re a fan of it or not, doesn’t exclusively belong to some group of people who share the same skin color or language or culture or religion — just as classical music or Western medicine or modern physics doesn’t belong to the Europeans. [read post]
13 Dec 2018, 8:57 am by Lindsay See
Lindsay See is the solicitor general of West Virginia, which led a group of 27 other states and the governor of Kentucky in a cert-stage amicus brief in support of the petitioners in The American Legion v. [read post]
17 Jul 2010, 8:30 am by Transplanted Lawyer
  El-Gamal is also affiliated with a group called the Cordoba Initiative. [read post]
20 Jun 2019, 8:54 am
The Court’s opinion eloquently explains why that is so: The Latin cross is uniquely associated with the fallen soldiers of World War I; the organizers of the Peace Cross acted with the undeniably secular motive of commemorating local soldiers; no evidence suggests that they sought to disparage or exclude any religious group; the secular values inscribed on the Cross and its place among other memorials strengthen its message of patriotism and commemoration; and, finally, the… [read post]
20 Jun 2019, 3:06 pm by Harvey Weiner
Approximately 250,000 Jewish-Americans answered the call to action in World War I. [read post]
7 Dec 2015, 3:07 am
What laws might govern the groups concerned – indigenous population, settlers, slaves, indentured servants, subjects of third nations? [read post]