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2 Nov 2009, 9:41 am
In a forthcoming article in the Penn State Law Review, The Arms Trade Treaty: Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Prospects for Arms Embargoes on Human Rights Violators, Paul Gallant, Joanne Eisen and I examine the issue. [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 8:54 am
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) spent this past August and September filming what USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack would later call "deplorable scenes" at Bushway Packing Inc. of Grand Isle, Vermont. [read post]
1 Nov 2009, 10:15 pm
Such practices would not be unique to the United States nor the most extreme forms of abuse in the world. [read post]
31 Oct 2009, 3:00 am
Two years ago, undercover video shot for the Humane Society of the United States led to the shutdown of a Chino, CA slaughterhouse that was the second largest supplier to the National School Lunch Program and resulted in the largest beef recall in U.S. history.State and federal officials Friday closed another slaughterhouse after seeing a new undercover video from the Humane Society. [read post]
30 Oct 2009, 6:33 pm
“The Vermont Agency of Agriculture was notified by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) late Wednesday afternoon of alleged animal welfare violations at the facility. [read post]
30 Oct 2009, 8:24 am
Corruption of China's Communist Party It has been reported that there is widespread corruption among Chinese government officials including graft, bribery, use of official position for personal gain, blackmail, misuse of public money, and extortion. [161] One source cites graft and bribery as constituting over 50% of the economic crimes in China.[162] Under the current Chinese government, the rights of individuals are always subject to the drafting of new legislation that may suspend those… [read post]
29 Oct 2009, 2:34 pm
Hiding the dead For all its love of military and patriotism, the United States is quick to hide its dead. [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 7:17 am
As John Seewer reports for the Associated Press today, the upcoming vote in Ohio on livestock care could serve as a model for "farmers in rural America . . . battling animal rights groups" looking to change state laws with regards to the treatment of livestock.The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has been successful in recent years in using state ballot initiatives to change the way farmers house livestock. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 10:00 am
The Legal Aid Society; Real Estate Board of New York; New York State Tenants & Neighbors Coalition, Inc. et al.; Community Housing Improvement Program of New York Inc. et al.; Maria del Carmen Arroyo et al.; Rent Stabilization Association of New York City, Inc.; Office of Manhattan Borough President; Urban Justice Center; Mitchell-Lama Residents Coalition, amici curiae. [read post]
22 Oct 2009, 6:19 pm
The United Nations Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries as a Means of Violating Human Rights and Impeding the Exercise of the Right of Peoples to Self-Determination—in consultation with researchers, watchdog groups, industry representatives, and other civil society groups—has issued a Draft International Convention on the Regulation, Oversight and Monitoring of Private Military and Security Companies. [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 2:56 pm
The Virginia Supreme Court found this to be an unreasonable action in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution but the State asked the United States Supreme Court to review the decision. [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 11:49 am
" - Martin Luther King (United States Constitution, Bill of Rights) © 2006-2009 Sex Offender Issues , All Rights Reserved [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 10:59 am
The Death Penalty Information Center released a new study today on the high costs, and lack of real benefits, associated with capital punishment in the United States. [read post]
19 Oct 2009, 6:00 pm
In addition to supporting international efforts to bring those responsible for genocide and war crimes in Darfur to justice, the United States will work with Darfuri civil society to support locally-owned accountability and reconciliation mechanisms that can make peace more sustainable. [read post]
19 Oct 2009, 3:07 pm
Today's Cleveland Plain Dealer carries the editorial, "The costs to society and the state of capital punishment are too high to justify. [read post]
17 Oct 2009, 5:22 pm
The harmony, not to say the identity, of interests and views which belong, or should belong, to the family institution is repugnant to the idea for a woman adopting a distinct and independent career from that of her husband … for these reasons I think that the laws of Illinois now complained of are not obnoxious to the charge of any abridging any of the privileges and immunities of cities of the United States [read post]
17 Oct 2009, 2:12 pm
Several commenters have stated that men, gay men particularly, are at much greater cancer risk than the article says, for example. [read post]
15 Oct 2009, 5:02 am
“We think this is as much a health care bill as any,” said Nancy Perry, vice president of government affairs at the Humane Society of the United States. [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 1:49 pm
Even 17 years after the United States Supreme Court ordered schools to be integrated, it was not unusual for students in all-black schools to have outhouses rather than indoor restrooms.Other cases lacked precedent. [read post]
13 Oct 2009, 12:39 pm
Some argue that this sense of individualized, formal equality that dominates our law and culture is as much as we can expect in our post-Ronald Reagan United States, where we are trapped in scripts that presuppose both a meritocracy and a functioning free market in an ahistoric and context-free articulation of the American dream of the self-made man. [read post]
