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22 Nov 2009, 12:22 am
Human Rights Act (D.C. [read post]
9 Jun 2016, 4:37 am
The District of Columbia Office of Human Rights, in connection with the National LGBTQ Task Force, recently published a 19-page best practices guide for employers on transgender issues in the workplace. [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 9:37 am
Attorney in the District of Columbia, and as a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.Meanwhile, Eli M. [read post]
27 Feb 2023, 12:31 pm
Human Rights Act of 1977, as amended, D.C. [read post]
22 Feb 2021, 1:00 pm
In 2008, a divided Supreme Court, in District of Columbia v. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 8:30 am
Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”). [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 6:43 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled on Wednesday that Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa [official website; BBC profile] is immune from suit [opinion, PDF] under the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 (TVPA) [text] while he is in office. [read post]
31 Aug 2023, 4:08 pm
This blog is an update to “Legal Issues with Using AI to Create Content – Written with Help from AI” by Devin Ricci on April 28, 2023 On August 18th, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued an opinion stating that Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated artwork lacks “human authorship,” thus it cannot be the subject of a valid copyright claim. [read post]
3 Jul 2020, 4:13 pm
This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. ● 31 UN Human Rights experts renewed the call for an on-the-ground independent, impartial investigation into human rights violations in the Philippines. [read post]
25 Nov 2014, 12:31 pm
In an interesting and uncommon intersection between securities law, curbing human rights abuses and freedom of speech under the First Amendment, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia recently agreed to re-consider whether the SEC can require companies to disclose whether their products contain “conflict minerals. [read post]
23 Mar 2009, 6:34 am
In the District of Columbia and Virginia, the answer is usually yes. [read post]
18 Apr 2014, 1:37 pm
Galludet University, (D DC, April 14, 2014), the District of Columbia federal district court dismissed a lawsuit brought by Angela McCaskill, Gallaudet University's former Chief Diversity Officer. [read post]
12 Mar 2008, 5:05 am
’s Human Rights Act. [read post]
19 Nov 2020, 4:30 pm
Agnes Callamard, Director of Columbia Global Freedom of Expression and UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Killings, presented the Outstanding Human Rights Activist award to Loujain al-Hathloul, in absentia. [read post]
25 Jan 2016, 10:41 am
At least 18 states and the District of Columbia have enacted statutes prohibiting various forms of discrimination based on gender identity and expression. [read post]
2 Sep 2023, 3:05 am
This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. ● European Court of Human Rights: Unwarranted search of Polish journalists violates rights. [read post]
30 May 2020, 7:17 am
Mellon Foundation, Columbia Global Centers | Amman has established a new fellowship program to support emerging displaced scholars working in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. [read post]
24 Apr 2023, 1:31 pm
” The Act also amends the District of Columbia Human Rights Act to require employers to treat a qualifying patient’s use of medical marijuana for a disability in the same manner as it would treat the legal use of other controlled substances prescribed by or taken under the supervision of a licensed health care professional (subject to some exceptions). [read post]
24 Oct 2020, 4:51 pm
Amnesty International argued that the Israeli Defence Export Controls Agency (DECA) had an obligation under international human rights law to ensure that companies domiciled in Israel respect human rights and that – as the spyware was being used to target human rights defenders – the company’s license to distribute that spyware should be revoked. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 4:35 am
The timing coincides with UN Special Procedures and the UN human rights office condemning the disproportionate use of force against people taking part in peaceful demonstrations across the United States as well as journalists covering these protests. [read post]
