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WFTV Orlando
April 24, 2018
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. - After a Florida woman died three days after being berated by a judge, many are asking what their rights are if they're caught in the same situation. WFTV Facebook users voiced displeasure with the judge's actions. "I think the judge could have handled this situation in a betterÃâà...
Rewire.News
April 24, 2018
“A revised subsection changes the focus from 'reproductive rights,' which sought to cover the availability of contraceptives and maternal health issues, to cover more directly the requirement of U.S. law that we report on coercive family planning practices, such as coerced abortion and involuntary sterilizationÃâà...
Amnesty International
April 24, 2018
Trinidad and Tobago must guarantee and protect the rights of all asylum seekers and refugees, said Amnesty International in an open letter to Prime Minister Keith Rowley today, following the deportation of 82 people from Venezuela on 21 April. “Millions of Venezuelans are fleeing an unprecedentedÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
April 24, 2018
For decades, Chicagoans have pondered how to reverse the poverty and disenfranchisement that contribute heavily to the cycle of violence in African-American neighborhoods. Perhaps we have had the answer all along. Ida B. Wells, the Chicago journalist and anti-lynching crusader, left a blueprint forÃâà...
WDTN.com
April 24, 2018
Steven Wise, an attorney for the group, Nonhuman Rights Project, has argued in state courts that elephants and chimpanzees should be treated legally as people with a right to liberty. An appeals court in New York last year rejected a case involving two chimpanzees, saying there was no legal precedentÃâà...
New York Times
April 24, 2018
“The central lesson of the past year is that despite considerable headwinds, a vigorous defense of human rights can succeed,” Kenneth Roth, the longtime head of Human Rights Watch, contended recently, adding that many still “can be convinced to reject the scapegoating of unpopular minorities andÃâà...
Roll Call
April 23, 2018
Khanna has spoken frequently about the need for an “Internet Bill of Rights,” as he calls it. But Khanna also said his efforts will not interfere with states' attempts for Internet rights, like a proposed piece of legislation in California to protect net neutrality. Countries like Brazil and Italy have already enactedÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
April 23, 2018
Utah civil rights legend France Davis celebrates 44th anniversary as pastor of a growing Calvary Baptist Church ... Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights campaigns of the 1960s and a participant in the historic Selma-to-Montgomery, Ala., voting rights march, came to Utah in the early 1970s and becameÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
April 23, 2018
(Hong Kong) – China's government and private Chinese companies should end their widespread use of gender discriminatory job advertisements, Human Rights Watch said in a new report today. Chinese authorities rarely enforce legal prohibitions against gender discrimination in employment and inÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 22, 2018
Islamabad, Pakistan - Thousands of people have attended a rally in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore demanding basic rights for ethnic Pashtun citizens and others. Manzoor Pashteen, the leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), addressed protesters on Sunday, calling for an end to enforcedÃâà...
New York Times
April 20, 2018
Ms. Jacobson familiarized unions with their rights to demand medical benefit coverage for contraceptives, and she organized educational and fund-raising campaigns to reduce the rates of cervical cancer and coronary artery disease. She also challenged entrenched sexism, which manifested itself withÃâà...
New York Times
April 13, 2018
Charles McDew, whose three arrests in two days as a college student for violating South Carolina's forbidding racial codes transformed him into a civil rights pioneer, died on April 3 in West Newton, Mass. He was 79. The cause was a heart attack he had while visiting his longtime partner, Beryl Gilfix, for theÃâà...
CNN
April 13, 2018
... President that the Department of Justice's rescission of the Cole memo will not impact Colorado's legal marijuana industry," Gardner said in a statement. "Furthermore, President Trump has assured me that he will support a federalism-based legislative solution to fix this states' rights issue once and for all.
Pacific Standard
April 13, 2018
In previous cases, the Supreme Court upheld the tribes' rights to fish salmon, spelled out by various treaties entered in the 1850s. But, having insulated those rights from destruction previously, the court must now decide their meaning for the 21st century and beyond. That decision may say more about whatÃâà...
Dallas News
April 13, 2018
Plano ISD's policy, for example, notes that the district may prohibit expression if it "materially and substantially interferes" with school activities or the rights of other students or teachers, or if the district can demonstrate reasonable cause that such expression would do so. Students can be kicked out of schoolÃâà...
euronews
April 13, 2018
“From an ethical and legal perspective, creating a legal personality for a robot is inappropriate”, they argued, explaining that doing so could breach human rights law. The experts said Europe should create rules for robotics and artificial intelligence that foster innovation, but also consider the “societal,Ãâà...
Cointelegraph
April 12, 2018
Chinese internet search giant Baidu has launched a digital image property rights management platform based on Blockchain, the company announced Wednesday, April 11. The service, called Totem, timestamps each submitted original image with a real-time identity and other user data, storing it on aÃâà...
Variety
April 12, 2018
Amazon has picked up U.K. rights to AMC's upcoming “Dietland,” the streaming giant announced Thursday. The show, which is described as darkly comedic, stars Joy Nash and Julianna Margulies and is set to launch in Britain on Prime Video on June 5, following its U.S. premiere the previous day.
Chicago Tribune
April 12, 2018
When the Illinois Senate voted 43-12 Wednesday to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (with no debate!), many credited the #MeToo movement. The timing would certainly indicate as much. The deadline to ratify the amendment, after all, expired in 1982. Something inspired theÃâà...
UN News
April 12, 2018
United Nations experts have urged Viet Nam not to crackdown on civil society or stifle dissent, after the authorities jailed several human rights defenders for “conducting activities to overthrow the people's government” – a charge that carries the possibility of the death sentence or life imprisonment.
Los Angeles Times
April 12, 2018
Ida Sawyer, Human Rights Watch director for Central Africa, said senior security and intelligence officials in Congo told the organization about a scheme being carried out by President Joseph Kabila's powerful supporters in the government and security sector to derail elections scheduled for December andÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 12, 2018
However, South Korea's Ministry of Unification confirmed human rights in North Korea was not on the agenda. "The main agenda will be denuclearisation, establishment of peace on the Korean Peninsula and improving North-South relations. Nothing more, nothing less," Baik Tae-hyun, spokesperson forÃâà...
Amnesty International
April 12, 2018
With Argentina in the global spotlight as it holds the G20 presidency this year, its government must commit to tackle human rights challenges and play a leading role in addressing other key regional and global issues, said Amnesty International during its Secretary General's visit to the country. “ArgentinaÃâà...
Post Register
April 1, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., only 1 in 10 African Americans think the United States has achieved all or most of the goals of the civil rights movement he led, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Virginian-Pilot
April 1, 2018
Honorees at the April 5, 2018, Human Rights Awards Ceremony include, back row: Todd Walker, Kenick El, Christina Pullen, Roark Corson, Kathleen Wakefield, and Laura Beth Lawver; front row: Marie Culver, Jennifer Vaughan, Heidi Kulberg, Carolyn Weems, Barbara Unkle, Alison Byrne, and Debi Gray.
Variety
April 1, 2018
On Sunday, the streaming-video giant announced that “Rogen has entered into a lifetime deal to transfer full ownership of his personal autonomy to Netflix.” “As a general rule, I don't really 'read' anything before I sign it,” Rogen is quoted as saying in the April 1 announcement. The release also cites “NetflixÃâà...
The Guardian
April 1, 2018
The emerging international rights-of-nature movement aims to address the way western legal systems treat nature as property, making the living world invisible to the law. It uses western legal constructs, such as personhood and rights-based approaches, to shift the status of nature from property to a subjectÃâà...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
April 1, 2018
Following the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968, the newly formed Black Student Caucus at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School decided it was time for change on the nearly all-white campus. They demanded more black representation in the faculty and board of trustees and the creationÃâà...
The Commercial Appeal
March 31, 2018
People from around the world are expected to visit Memphis for the 50th anniversary commemorations of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. Key commemorations are taking place at the National Civil Rights Museum, which on Friday released details about parking and logistics. Here's what you needÃâà...
Chicago Sun-Times
March 31, 2018
The only thing I was told is that I was going to a new school and I should behave,” says civil rights icon Ruby Bridges. On Nov. 14, 1960, Bridges became the first black child to integrate William Franz Public School in New Orleans, an experience captured in Norman Rockwell's iconic 1964 painting, “TheÃâà...
MyWabashValley
March 31, 2018
Ford, along with State Sen. Ron Grooms, a Republican from Jeffersonville, and State Sen. Mike Bohacek, a Republican from Michiana Shores, want those relationships rebuilt. They came up with the bill of rights idea last summer. Ford said the document is modeled after similar laws in 16 other states andÃâà...
Arizona State University
March 31, 2018
Now in its eighth year, the festival, running April 6–8, will shed light on rights at risk across the globe. Over the years, the festival has built a reputation for providing memorable glimpses into the experiences of people whose rights are under attack. Films are coupled with post-film Q&A sessions so audienceÃâà...
The Denver Post
March 31, 2018
In this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 file photo, people look at the portrait of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. following a service celebrating King's birthday inside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. Fifty years after King's assassination, only 1 in 10 African Americans think the United States has achieved all orÃâà...
New York Times
March 31, 2018
They were people who were arrested, beaten and spat on for their participation in the civil rights movement. Now we want to know: Who were they? We're hoping you might be able to help us identify these people. Your name and comments may be published, but your contact information will not. A reporterÃâà...
Palo Alto Online
March 30, 2018
Dr. Clayborne Carson, director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute and the King Papers Project at Stanford University, speaks with Dr. Clarence Jones, King's lawyer, adviser, and speechwriter, as the two talk about their plans to commemorate the civil rights leader on the 50thÃâà...
The Spokesman-Review
March 30, 2018
WASHINGTON – Fifty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., only 1 in 10 African Americans think the United States has achieved all or most of the goals of the civil rights movement he led, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
First Things
March 30, 2018
On one side, a coalition of establishment medical associations, pro-choice activists, gay rights organizations, the ACLU, the Democratic party, and mainstream bioethicists promotes a “patient-centered” medical paradigm. Under this view, patients have the right to obtain any legal and effectual medicalÃâà...
Civilrights.org
March 30, 2018
WASHINGTON – In a Washington Post op-ed, Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, called on Congress to overturn the Trump administration's decision to weaponize the 2020 Census with a citizenship question. “The Census is a sacred trust. The goalÃâà...
Inside Higher Ed
March 30, 2018
The omnibus spending package passed by Congress last week will give a serious boost to the Department of Education's civil rights enforcement arm, even as that office narrows the scope of its investigative work. The legislation provides a total of $117 million for the Office for Civil Rights for fiscal yearÃâà...
UNCG Now
March 30, 2018
That was the headline of a New York Times article from December about the newly-opened civil rights museum in Jackson. As the first state-run museum of its kind in the country, the institution is committed to telling the full and true history of civil rights in Mississippi. That mission is what drew recent UNCÃâà...
WCJB
March 30, 2018
The program aims to curb human rights violations in fields and educate workers on their rights. "We march to get Wendy's kicked off campus cause we don't want a corporation that exploits farm workers, allows sexual abuse to happen in the fields, and allows their farm workers to be mistreated," saidÃâà...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
March 30, 2018
The UN Human Rights Council passed five more anti-Israel resolutions last week. This was not a great surprise, and U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley called the Council “grossly biased against Israel.” She added that “our patience is not unlimited” and again threatened to leave the Council unless its obsessionÃâà...
Hartford Courant
March 30, 2018
A federal court on Thursday ruled in favor of a prison inmate who claims Connecticut authorities acted illegally when they seized much of a $300,000 civil rights judgment he won against a prison guard and applied the money to the costs of his incarceration. Inmate Rashad Williams, serving a 30-yearÃâà...
Slate Magazine
March 30, 2018
However, in passing this legislation, Congress voted to enact a law that poses new threats to privacy and human rights for Americans as well as millions of people abroad who use the services of U.S. tech companies. Going forward, the task now falls to Congress to hold the executive branch accountableÃâà...
89.3 KPCC
March 30, 2018
In New Hampshire, the senate has overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment known as Marsy's Law. If it wins final approval from voters this fall, the amendment would enshrine a list of rights for crime victims into the state constitution. They include the right to be notified of when the accused isÃâà...
knopnews2
March 30, 2018
NORTH PLATTE. Neb -- (KNOP) - LB776 for county inmates' rights nears becoming a law. Key issue in bill addresses affordable phone use for inmates at county and city jails. It has taken some time to get through legislation, as language has been re-written several times. Senator Mike Groene believes it isÃâà...
IRINnews.org
March 30, 2018
Victims of human rights abuses and their families often don't know the names of the individual security officers they accuse of violating their rights, but their bosses can be held liable for their actions. However, according to Obiagwu, commanders tend not to stay in the same place for more than six months,Ãâà...
NPR
March 30, 2018
If it wins final approval from voters this fall, the amendment would enshrine a list of rights for crime victims into the state constitution. They include the right to be notified of when the accused is released on bail, the right to be heard at sentencing hearings, and the right to reasonable protection from theÃâà...
The News Journal
March 29, 2018
Two national debates converged in Dover on Wednesday as supporters of equal rights for women and opponents of new gun control measures rallied outside Legislative Hall. Although their goals are different, both groups are seeking Constitutional protections of their rights. A few dozen people – includingÃâà...
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
March 29, 2018
A once-deregistered University of Iowa student organization that has captured the spotlight nationally will retain its official status through the end of June — at least — to allow the administration more time to consider changes to enforcement of its human rights policy. A federal court judge Jan. 23 orderedÃâà...
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