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The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights announced Thursday that Barzin Hamzeh-Zadeh, a 16-year-old boy whom the Iranian government tortured, had died from his injuries. [read post]
25 Jun 2019, 1:39 pm by admin
New York legislators, spearheaded by Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas, amended the New York State Human Rights Law, broadening its scope to better protect employees. [read post]
4 Feb 2020, 6:37 am by Emily Beeken
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Monday documenting how Tanzania’s health policies deny adequate services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and other people who are at risk of contracting HIV. [read post]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Monday on Nigerian officials to release children detained in connection with Islamist rebel group Boko Haram. [read post]
Privacy International (PI) challenged the UK bulk communications regime, specifically section 94 of the Telecommunications Act, which has since been repealed by the Investigatory Powers Act, for being incompatible with EU human rights standards. [read post]
North Korean refugees in Russia are at risk of being forcibly returned to North Korea, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Thursday. [read post]
The American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Vermont division filed a complaint with the state’s human rights commission stating that a Black student had been harassed and discriminated against by a peer between 2019 and 2020. [read post]
UN experts in Geneva issued a press release urging the Australian government to immediately fulfill its commitment to compensate the families of 39 murdered victims of war crimes in Afghanistan in adherence to International Human Rights Law (IHRL) and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) on Wednesday. [read post]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Tuesday that Chad’s military caused the deaths of several detainees in transit and within the country’s Koro Toro prison. [read post]
3 Apr 2018, 2:28 am by Keemya Maghsoudi, Associate, Littler
  For example, the Minnesota Human Rights Act defines “disability” as “materially limiting a major life activity,” as opposed to the ADA’s “substantially limiting a major life activity. [read post]
3 Apr 2018, 2:28 am by Keemya Maghsoudi, Associate, Littler
  For example, the Minnesota Human Rights Act defines “disability” as “materially limiting a major life activity,” as opposed to the ADA’s “substantially limiting a major life activity. [read post]
16 Mar 2018, 3:24 pm
Chinese Authorities Continue To Suppress Lawyers After Replacing Minister of Justice (March 15, 2018 Campaign of Forced Evictions in Beijing Contravenes International Human Rights Standards (March 14, 2018) The CECC was created by Congress in October 2000 to monitor human rights and the development of the rule of law i [read post]
8 Apr 2016, 12:04 am
The intellectual creations element of IP is captured by the concept of creator's rights in international human rights law; while the property aspect of IP is protected by international investment agreements and European human rights treaties. [read post]
12 May 2017, 2:00 pm by EEM
"Greece: NGOs Decry Policy Limiting Asylum Appeal Rights (Human Rights Watch, May 2017) [text]"Human Rights Adrift? [read post]
9 Nov 2016, 1:45 pm by EEM
News:Chaloka Beyani's term as Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons has come to an end. [read post]
1 Oct 2023, 2:25 pm by Jacob Katz Cogan
United States as a Case in Point Lando Kirchmair, Information Interventions in the Twenty- First Century: Fighting Disinformation Across National Boundaries with International Information Campaigns Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops & Sara Pedroso, The Evidentiary Value of NGO and IO Reports in International Criminal Proceedings Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo, Non- compensatory Reparation Modalities in UN Legal Sources: Focus on Gross Violations of Human… [read post]
7 Aug 2016, 9:04 pm
The third part discusses alternative rule systems for the protection of IP in international law: the intellectual creations element of IP is captured by the concept of creator's rights in international human rights law; while the property aspect of IP is protected by international investment agreements, European human rights treaties and other areas of international law related to environmental, social and economic concerns. [read post]
These proposed rules represent an unprecedented attack on First Amendment rights, both of prisoners and of those on the outside — family, friends, journalists, clergy, and others — who want to communicate with them. [read post]
21 Sep 2015, 1:40 pm by F. Tim Knight
” A lot has changed since I wrote about this research group in one of my first Slaw posts. [read post]
9 Apr 2007, 3:46 pm
On one conception, rights function as an important kind of secondary principle to be used in moral reasoning in lieu of direct appeals to the utilitarian first principle. [read post]