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17 Feb 2009, 6:54 am by Communications and Public Affairs
Governments often claim that they cannot achieve ESC rights because they lack resources, but in reality the failure to realize ESC rights is based on poor policy decisions.Human rights law and Treaty Committee recommendations help us achieve people-centered development that protects human rights as the means and the ends of development. [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 11:51 am
  It is particularly relevant to the gathering global consensus to make Europe the center of global authority for the (legal) disciplining of enterprise human rights activity through mandatory human rights due diligence statutes (e.g., Recommendations For New EU Legislation on Mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence). [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 10:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 On September 21, 2011, HHS announced that data from the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that the  Affordable Care Act has helped increase the number of young adults who have health insurance. [read post]
28 Jan 2020, 5:33 am by Sara Amundson
Humane slaughter: Directs the USDA to ensure that inspectors receive robust training and focus attention on humane handling rules at slaughter plants. [read post]
7 Dec 2022, 9:43 am
  One of the most interesting developments in the field of business and human rights is the way in which the project now seeks to leverage sanctions regimes and markets limiting strategies deployed in liberal democratic states. [read post]
17 Jan 2020, 12:21 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
The Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) has just published its “annual” inflation update to civil monetary penalty amounts (CMP) in its regulations – even though those penalties were just increased for inflation in November 2019. [read post]
18 Oct 2018, 2:52 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
The agenda also includes the anticipated timing of almost 200 pending and future HHS regulatory actions, the majority of which are Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regulations. [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 10:26 am
Secretary General on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises.[20] One of its core underlying premises is that both state’s in the fulfillment of their duty to protect individuals resident in their territories and enterprises in their “social” responsibilities ought to be guided by developing international and transnational norms and standards.[21] Most of these developments have occurred in and around the cluster of… [read post]
21 Dec 2016, 11:54 pm
Proposals should be submitted by email to the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (mchr@savion.huji.ac.il) no later than 15 January 2017. [read post]
12 May 2017, 12:45 pm
In August 2013, at the Regional Forum on Business and Human Rights for Latin America and the Caribbean, and later at UN Human Rights Council 24th session in September 2013, the representative of Ecuador before the UN made a declaration regarding “Transnational Corporations and Human Rights,”[26] seeking a legally binding international instrument on business and human rights to be concluded within the UN system.[27] This declaration was supported by a… [read post]
8 Feb 2019, 11:45 am by FM Librarian
Flores Settlement Agreement and Endanger Children," Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law Forum, 29 Jan. 2019 [text]"Lawsuits Allege 'Grave Harm' to Immigrant Children in Detention," NPR, 24 Jan. 2019 [text]Prisons and Punishment: Immigration Detention in California (Human Rights First, Jan. 2019) [text]US: Suit Filed Over Immigration FOIA Request - Data Denial Hides World of Detention, Deportation (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 2019) [text via… [read post]
23 May 2013, 4:39 am by Heidi Henson
Acting pro bono, several of the country’s most prestigious law firms have brought multiple human trafficking lawsuits against Signal International, LLC and its network of recruiters and labor brokers, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced on May 21, 2013, characterizing the development as “an unprecedented collaborative effort. [read post]
3 Oct 2011, 2:40 pm by John Nolon
At the Pace University School of Law, through the work of the Land Use Law Center, we are highlighting countless examples of local governments developing sustainable plans, incentives, and regulations, guided by intelligent state and federal policies that accomplish these results. [read post]
18 Mar 2012, 4:03 pm
During the the Cold War years of 1955 to 1975, military researchers at Edgewood Arsenal (now known as Edgewood Chemical Biological Center) in Maryland performed human tests on unwitting members of the U.S. military. [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 10:37 pm
Gostin and Robert Archer (Georgetown University Law Center - O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and International Council on Human Rights Policy) have posted The Duty of States to Assist Other States in Need: Ethics, Human Rights, and International Law (Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Vol. 35, p. 526, 2007) on SSRN. [read post]
15 Aug 2016, 7:17 am by Nancy E. Halpern, D.V.M.
FDA issued a draft revised guidance for industry, “General Principles for Evaluating the Human Food Safety of New Animal Drugs Used In Food-Producing Animals” in July 2016 that “described the type of information that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) recommends sponsors provide [the agency] to address the human food safety of new animal drugs used in food-producing animals. [read post]