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8 Aug 2011, 2:56 pm
She was one of first three women to graduate from Santa Clara Law. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 3:42 am
Paz is a scholar of criminal law and human rights who worked for many years on women’s rights issues and was supported by civil society groups. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 6:27 am
Pregnancy Leave Rights. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 11:16 am
There is also a need for victims of human rights abuses to be able to access effective remedy, and indeed the theme of the Forum this year was “Realizing Access to Effective Remedy”, also the topic of a recent report by the Working Group on Business and Human Rights. [read post]
15 Oct 2009, 8:36 am
For more on board diversity, read my prior series of posts on this topic, starting with: Sotomayor, Diversity, And Group Dynamics: Why Do We Care? [read post]
16 May 2015, 2:50 pm
Phase 2 can then focus on shared parenting, however, laws that are “extreme”, such as a strict 50/50 formula or retroactivity are less attractive to major interest groups, including family law lawyers and women’s rights groups, who hold significant sway over public opinion. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 12:22 pm
It noted the particular impact experienced by women defenders and those who had to leave the country amid threat, attacks, and harassment for representing victims. [read post]
29 Jun 2017, 3:30 am
Better-known figures such as civil rights icon Rosa Parks, Women’s Bureau head Esther Peterson, National Council for Negro Women leader Dorothy Height, and Representative Shirley Chisholm also make appearances, but it is household workers themselves whose stories rightfully dominate this thoughtful, often riveting narrative. [read post]
29 Jun 2017, 3:30 am
Better-known figures such as civil rights icon Rosa Parks, Women’s Bureau head Esther Peterson, National Council for Negro Women leader Dorothy Height, and Representative Shirley Chisholm also make appearances, but it is household workers themselves whose stories rightfully dominate this thoughtful, often riveting narrative. [read post]
2 Oct 2010, 10:06 pm
News release: "The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution in which it established for a period of three years... [read post]
8 Oct 2017, 2:01 pm
The 2017 Report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises (A/72/162) (the 2017 WG Report) lays out the thinking and approaches of the Working Group to the issue of Remedies under the UN Guiding principles of Business and Human Rights. [read post]
6 Sep 2016, 5:52 am
" It was then used to attack supporters of Barry Goldwater, specifically the "resolute, intensely dedicated women's group — Western (or at least not Eastern urban), unsophisticated, often white-haired and wearing rimless eyeglasses. [read post]
8 Oct 2014, 8:49 am
The central principle of animus does not justify these doctrinal distinctions because many groups face hostility of varying degrees in society, including people with disabilities, Muslims, and of course women and people of color (not to mention deeply reviled groups such as sex offenders and drug users). [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 7:23 am
In what is shaping up to be the latest chapter in the women’s rights movement, female legislators across the country are introducing bills to regulate men’s health, in an effort to combat several anti-abortion and anti-contraception laws that have been popping up with increasing regularity. [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 9:01 pm
When President Trump issued his infamous immigration ban, directed at a group of Muslim countries, protest groups sprang up overnight. [read post]
25 Dec 2014, 9:11 pm
Efforts have been made to keep the indicators simple, based on objective and transparent methodology and, to the extent feasible, with an emphasis on disaggregation by type of prohibited discrimination and by vulnerable and marginalized population group. [read post]
27 Apr 2017, 9:30 pm
In the early 1970s, Murray provided Ruth Bader Ginsburg with the argument Ginsburg used to persuade the Supreme Court that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution protects not only blacks but also women - and potentially other minority groups - from discrimination. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 9:40 am
While the committee made recommendations for addressing these systemic problems, women who have been subjected to discrimination and harassment in the workplace have rights under state and federal law, rights that extend to the court system. [read post]
24 Jun 2022, 11:50 am
Jackson Women's Health Organization, SA, on behalf of himself and four other ideologues, pays exactly no attention to the self-defense rights of women who become pregnant and wish to escape that health-compromising and intense pain-inducing condition. [read post]
12 Aug 2022, 6:51 am
It involves systemic oppression of women, defining women, as one Afghan rights advocate told me, as being “not as human as men. [read post]
