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7 Nov 2023, 5:00 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
Gostin In 1984, the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) adopted the Siracusa Principles, which state that restrictions on human rights must meet standards of legality, necessity, and proportionality. [read post]
31 Oct 2016, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
As it presently stands the DHC ensures confidentiality and states, “Although the Program is funded by the Law Society of Upper Canada, the DHC works independently from the Law Society in a separate office in which all information received is kept in strict confidence. [read post]
7 Mar 2023, 3:21 am by kblocher@hslf.org
Founded in 1954, the Humane Society of the United States and its affiliates around the globe fight the big fights to end suffering for all animals. [read post]
20 May 2019, 9:49 am
For example, the United Nations will mark its 75th anniversary amidst calls for significant reforms to global governance. [read post]
16 Jul 2019, 7:25 am
For example, the United Nations will mark its 75th anniversary amidst calls for significant reforms to global governance. [read post]
13 Oct 2009, 10:06 am
By forming a compromise with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), agricultural groups and lawmakers were able to secure ‘"modest yet meaningful"' animal protections.The new law essentially "requires that certain farm animals have enough room to stand up and turn around and extend their limbs. [read post]
17 Feb 2015, 6:49 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
“Tens of thousands of chemicals are used by industries and businesses in the United States to make the products on which our society depends, such as pharmaceuticals, clothing, and automobiles. [read post]
31 Dec 2012, 9:45 am by Alfred Brophy
 This is where a lot of talk of reparations for slavery and Jim Crow in the United States has gone in recent years (such as here). [read post]
25 Jul 2009, 6:41 pm
President Barack Obama announced that the United States of America will sign the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 5:56 am by Leila Nadya Sadat
The resolution adopted recently at the United Nations General Assembly’s legal committee on draft articles for a treaty on crimes against humanity creates a two-year process for debate and discussion of the proposal within the committee. [read post]
2 Mar 2015, 7:06 pm
It has been 70 years since the great Charter of the United Nations was drawn up, and since then States have also written and agreed to a range of strong international treaties, to establish in binding law the legal principles of human rights. [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 1:22 am
The International Environmental Law Interest Groups of the American Society of International Law and the European Society of International Law have issued a call for papers for a symposium on "The Changing Nature of International Environmental Law: Evolving Approaches of the United States and the European Union," to be held November 22-23, 2013, at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. [read post]
4 Jul 2011, 12:39 am by Graeme Hall
Finally, the Attorney General has given a speech to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe stating that nation States bear the primary responsibility to protect human rights under the European Convention and that the European Court of Human Rights “must be careful to respect that primary role. [read post]
19 Apr 2017, 2:33 pm
The United States and China appear to be pursuing distinct strategies toward the organization of international trade and investment. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 6:56 am
Binding: civil society's claim for a binding treaty on Human Rights, TNCs and other Business. [read post]
20 Mar 2023, 12:00 am by Lawrence Solum
Tasmiah Zaman (The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, United Kingdom) has posted Freedom of Religion for Non-Muslims in Islam: A Pakistani Affair (Law and Humanities Quarterly Reviews, Vol.5 No.2 (2022)) on SSRN. [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 8:16 am by Muhammad Fraser-Rahim
” Biden’s comments seem to be addressed both to Nigerian citizens and to members of the Nigerian diaspora in the United States. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 2:59 am
Before horses can again be slaughtered in the United States for human consumption,  USDA is going to have to get a harness on one food safety issue that all sides agree is a problem.Unlike cows, pigs, sheep or goats, the 9 or 10 million horses in the United States are not being raised for food, and veterinarians treating horses for aliments use whatever drugs might help. [read post]