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” This law refers to two statutory provisions prohibiting the US from using funds for assistance to units of foreign security forces where credible information implicates that unit in the commission of gross human rights violations. [read post]
8 Jul 2014, 9:35 am
In June 2014 he received the Harry LeRoy Jones Award of the Washington Foreign Law Society, honoring “an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the development and application of international law. [read post]
31 Jan 2015, 8:24 pm
This project, that I’m also privileged to participate in, involves an Independent Commission of Experts comprised of Canadian Supreme Court Justice Ian Binnie, Alex Whiting at Harvard, Anita Ramasastry at the University of Washington and others. [read post]
16 Nov 2021, 5:15 am
The Chinese model of extensive censorship and surveillance continues to spread to governments with poor human rights records that repress and control populations through technology made in China. [read post]
1 Nov 2013, 4:25 am by Howard Friedman
Commission on International Religious Freedom yesterday released a letter (full text) that it has sent to President Obama urging him to use the occasion to urge Maliki to do more to protect human rights and religious freedom. [read post]
2 Feb 2015, 12:30 pm by EEM
Commission on Civil Rights briefing is available. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 7:44 am
International and regional organizations contribute to the prevention of human rights violations through their respective mandates by supporting States to fulfil their human rights obligations. [read post]
19 Aug 2019, 8:52 am by Kevin Whittaker
” The Washington Human Rights Commission, an agency tasked with interpreting the WLAD, defines a “condition” under the WLAD as an abnormality. [read post]
15 Dec 2009, 1:14 pm by Ama N. Appiah, Esq.
Under Mr. deLeon, a human rights commission study found that many hospitals and clinics in the city were refusing to perform abortions on women infected with the AIDS virus. [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
”And some state correctional departments have codified that right in regulations and policy directives. [read post]
19 Nov 2011, 9:05 am by Bridget Crawford
 The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ decision in favor of Ms. [read post]
30 Sep 2013, 12:45 pm by Dorsey
  The Washington State Human Rights Commission Regulations against discrimination require employees with eight or more employees to provide a leave of absence for the entire period of time that she is sick or temporarily disabled because of pregnancy or childbirth. [read post]
12 May 2017, 12:45 pm
Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights (UNGP),[7] which had been endorsed unanimously by the same Human Rights Council only three years before in June 2008.[8] The move from the operationalization of a soft law framework for coordinating the public law based duty of states to protect human rights with the private law, transnational, and social norm based responsibility of enterprises to respect human rights… [read post]
29 May 2014, 10:37 am by Alyson L Palmer
With nothing in the text of the WLAD, or the regulations issued by the Human Rights Commission, imposing an obligation to reasonably accommodate religious practices, the Court of Appeals had concluded that Washington law did not go as far as federal law in this regard. [read post]
7 Aug 2016, 11:01 am
Government to lead international effort ahead of the G-20 Summit to seek release of rights advocates and an end to coerced confessions For Immediate Release (Washington, DC)—The chairs of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Representative Christopher H. [read post]
30 Oct 2023, 2:34 pm by Reference Staff
State courts and the state legislature have also played recent roles in reforming the state’s child protection system.In 2022 alone, Washington State appeals courts issued opinions in at least five dependency cases that impact Washington’s child protection system, clarifying the State’s role in keeping families together. [read post]