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Archive for November, 2011
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Posted in: Education & Youth, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice
Topics: Aryeh Neier, disability rights, Disability Rights Initiative, Down Syndrome, Human Rights Watch, intellectual disability, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Maria Alejandra Villanueva, Peru, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, United Nations, Voting Rights
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"Each day hundreds of people flocked into the public gallery. Monks in bright orange and maroon robes sat in the front two rows, directly in front of the large window that shows the courtroom. Western journalists and NGO representatives were scattered throughout the 500-seat gallery."
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New European regulations should ensure that anyone arrested in the European Union has access to a "letter of rights" detailing their rights in all 23 official EU languages
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The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) is less than a decade old, it but its first-ever ruling on a complaint affirmed principles that are crucial to eradicating statelessness and minimizing discrimination against vulnerable minorities.
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Julek was one of 18 children who took the Czech government to the European Court of Human Rights in 1999, challenging the practice of placing disproportionate numbers of Romani children into segregated schools. Twelve years and a landmark legal victory later, he is still waiting for things to...
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After completing her EARTH University scholarship, Carina Théodore will return to her native Haiti to help village farmers improve their soil and increase food harvests.
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A new law in Malawi finally gives women the right to inherit her husband's estate. In the past, widows and their children were often left with nothing after in-laws took possession of property and valuables. Women’s economic disempowerment has been particularly problematic in the shadow of...
Posted in: Africa, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: economic equity, HIV/AIDS, housing rights, inheritance rights, law and health, legal reform, Malawi, public health, Tamar Ezer, women, Women's Inheritance Now
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Libya says it wants to put Saif al-Qaddafi and Abdullah al-Senussi on trial in Tripoli, rather than send them to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. But its leaders' options are constrained by their international obligations.
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The executive director of the Open Society Georgia Foundation shares a glimpse of what a typical week is like for her.
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Advocates scored a major legal victory when the European Court of Human Rights ruled that forced sterilization is a violation of the right to be free from torture or inhuman and degrading treatment. This groundbreaking judgment is a step forward for efforts to bring justice to the potentially...
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