• Cite this: Legal Recreational Marijuana Tied to Higher Prevalence of Cannabis Use Disorder - Medscape - Sep 06, 2023. (medscape.com)
  • also juristic person) has a legal name and has certain rights, protections, privileges, responsibilities, and liabilities in law, similar to those of a natural person. (wikipedia.org)
  • An economics professor is making the case for legal protections against looks-challenged people. (abajournal.com)
  • ing legal protections to restricted persons. (cdc.gov)
  • It is an important decision because Indigenous People can now obtain legal rights to disputed traditional lands. (lu.se)
  • It also sends a signal to organizations and communities in other countries that Brazil respects the statutory rights of Indigenous People, says Torsten Krause, senior lecturer at Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS. (lu.se)
  • In terms of biodiversity, it is also positive because the forest is generally better off, and deforestation is significantly less when it is taken care of by Indigenous People. (lu.se)
  • Compared to the situation under former President Jair Bolsonaro, who pursued an active policy to expand deforestation and increase the expansion of agriculture and mining in the Amazon, the situation for Indigenous People and biodiversity in the country has improved since Lula da Silva won the election in 2022, Torsten Krause highlights. (lu.se)
  • Definition: Person. (cornell.edu)
  • When considering whether a deaf child or young person meets the legal definition of disability, any steps which are taken to correct a child's deafness must be ignored. (ndcs.org.uk)
  • If a child is temporarily deaf (for example, because of glue ear), he or she may not meet the legal definition. (ndcs.org.uk)
  • Similarly, a deaf person may need a sign language interpreter to help facilitate communication and avoid being attacked or punished for perceived noncompliance. (truthout.org)
  • Discrimination against a deaf person can occur when they are treated less favourably than somebody who is not deaf. (ndcs.org.uk)
  • Discrimination can also happen when a deaf person is at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to their hearing peers and cannot engage fully in an activity because no adjustments have been made to accommodate them. (ndcs.org.uk)
  • The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16 advocates for the provision of legal identity for all, including birth registration by 2030 as part of the 2030 Agenda. (wikipedia.org)
  • the provision of free legal aid to the deserving ones and puts a question mark on the performance of state institutions. (bartleby.com)
  • However, even in countries where abortion is broadly legal, the limited provision of affordable services is a barrier to the access of safe abortion. (phmovement.org)
  • In this article, we tried to reflect the basic norms of the current legislation in the Russian Federation governing the provision of medical care to people with epilepsy, providing them with free medications, admission of patients with epilepsy and epileptic syndrome to various types of work, education, military service, possession of weapons, driving, and pay attention to the problems of people diagnosed with epilepsy. (intechopen.com)
  • And Montana is unique among some of the states in that it has a constitutional provision that expressly protects the people of Montana's right to a clean and healthful environment. (kmuw.org)
  • Giuliani, a longtime Trump ally who also served as the fellow Republican's lawyer, is facing a barrage of legal fees, fines, sanctions and damages related to his work helping Trump try to overturn the 2020 election and other cases. (nbc4i.com)
  • As we celebrate the 33rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), we also mark another year in which people with disabilities are trapped in the criminal legal system instead of receiving the support they need. (truthout.org)
  • Without safe and affordable housing and supportive community-based services, people with disabilities are more likely to live in poverty, be unemployed or be unhoused. (truthout.org)
  • These factors make it more likely that people with disabilities will interact with law enforcement - often for misunderstood behavior related to their disabilities - and become ensnared in the criminal legal system. (truthout.org)
  • Once in the system, people with disabilities suffer more discrimination and trauma, and are denied housing and community-based services like supported employment and peer services that could change - and save - their lives. (truthout.org)
  • The abolition struggle must confront how institutions that constrain people with disabilities inflict carceral violence. (truthout.org)
  • About one-quarter of incarcerated people have cognitive disabilities such as autism, Down Syndrome and learning disorders, while many others have visual, hearing and ambulatory disabilities. (truthout.org)
  • Although people with mental health disabilities comprise only 4-5 percent of the U.S. population , they make up about 15 percent of prison and 20 percent of jail populations . (truthout.org)
  • Law enforcement officers are generally the first and only responders to be dispatched when people with mental disabilities experience a crisis or otherwise need help, when they should receive the same type of health-centered response provided to someone experiencing a physical health emergency, such as a heart attack. (truthout.org)
  • All actors in the criminal legal system should understand the civil rights of people with disabilities and confront implicit biases and assumptions. (truthout.org)
  • Public safety requires reforming the systems that serve people with disabilities. (truthout.org)
  • The Equality Act 2010 legally protects people with disabilities and makes it a requirement that reasonable adjustments are made to ensure equal access to opportunities in all of society. (ndcs.org.uk)
  • As a digital subscriber to Prison Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Ulster University Legal Innovation Centre team, advisory board and expert panel. (ulster.ac.uk)
  • Profiles of Visiting Scholars at the Legal Innovation Centre. (ulster.ac.uk)
  • Despite the existing regulatory legal acts governing the protection of health and the social rights enjoyment by citizens with epilepsy, there are many questions on this topic both regarding accessibility of these norms to people with epilepsy and in terms of compliance of the current legislation with the norms of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. (intechopen.com)
  • Constitutional norms provide a person with a wide range of diverse rights and freedoms that cover all major areas of life and activity. (intechopen.com)
  • Study II has the title The assessing of substantive validity of legal norms in a critical perspective. (lu.se)
  • For example, despite India's broadly legal status, the absence of adequate numbers of trained, legally registered health care providers throughout the country and the necessary facilities continue to pose significant challenges to those accessing abortion care. (phmovement.org)
  • Clinical trials to address the COVID-19 public health emergency have broadly excluded pregnant people from participation, illustrating a long-standing trend of clinical trial exclusion that has led to a clear knowledge gap and unmet need in the treatment and prevention of medical conditions experienced during pregnancy and of pregnancy -related conditions. (bvsalud.org)
  • The reason for the term "legal person" is that some legal persons are not people: companies and corporations are "persons" legally speaking (they can legally do most of the things an ordinary person can do), but they are not people in a literal sense (human beings). (wikipedia.org)
  • People who are moving to the United States are legally immigrating because they come here for different reasons. (bartleby.com)
  • If I were to incite a group of people to call up Andrew Anglin and his family and threaten to murder them, I would also be legally responsible for my actions. (wonkette.com)
  • People will immigrate for different reasons. (bartleby.com)
  • But some countries are larger than others - or, as Motomura says, they have more people who want to immigrate because of geography or political and economic ties. (wunc.org)
  • LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information. (law.com)
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  • Moreover, evidence points to the abysmal access to information and knowledge about the legal provisions amongst girls and women, as well as among health care providers, often compromising access to abortion care (Nadimpally et al 2017). (phmovement.org)
  • Nationally, the number of prisoners per capita reached a record 289 persons incarcerated in state and federal prisoners per 100,000 U.S. residents. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • NEW YORK (AP) - Former President Donald Trump hosted a $100,000-a-plate fundraiser for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club as Giuliani struggles to pay his mounting legal bills. (nbc4i.com)
  • The significance of three cases of a disease occurring in a town of 1000 people is much greater than the same number in a city of 100,000. (cdc.gov)
  • The result, 0.000058, would then be multiplied by 100,000 to determine the rate: 58 cases per 100,000 people per year. (cdc.gov)
  • In application of these provisions, public entities (legal persons under public law with a public accountant) may use the payment card known as the "purchasing card" as a means of carrying out public expenditure and distribute it to their agents. (twobirds.com)
  • Thus, along with legal provisions, their implementation towards safe, quality abortion services, and post abortion care is critical to girls and women's health and lives. (phmovement.org)
  • 9/11 events often include judicial review provisions that persons who represented a potential public health risk (6). (cdc.gov)
  • While roughly 15 percent of the United States population has a physical or mental disability, 40 percent of people in state prisons have a disability . (truthout.org)
  • A person with a cognitive or other mental disability may need a companion to explain proceedings to them so they can defend themselves. (truthout.org)
  • This booklet lists addresses of organizations and government departments that deal with legal, advocacy, and disability issues in the larger communities in British Columbia and the Yukon. (clicklaw.bc.ca)
  • Senior Legal Services' mission is to provide legal advice, advocacy, counseling, education and representation to the senior community in Baltimore City, and to improve the quality of life and negate the exploitation of Baltimore seniors. (peoples-law.org)
  • The NLP Project works to promote economic development in historically disadvantaged neighborhoods by providing legal advocacy, expertise, and support to strengthen grassroots efforts in expanding social justice and racial equity. (communitylegalaid.org)
  • 4.1.2 Category and scope of cases The ordinance mentions no limit or scope to the types and categories of cases that can be pursued under free legal aid services. (bartleby.com)
  • Although a progressive legal mandate alone does not ensure access, it is an important first step towards the availability of safe and legal abortion services. (phmovement.org)
  • Organisations and service providers have a duty to make adjustments in order to ensure that deaf children and young people who use their services or are volunteers or employees are not placed at a substantial disadvantage. (ndcs.org.uk)
  • Senior Legal Services is a project of the Baltimore Bar Foundation and the Bar Association of Baltimore City. (peoples-law.org)
  • Senior Legal Services (SLS) provides free legal advice, services, and representation to Baltimore City residents age sixty (60) and older. (peoples-law.org)
  • Most clients place a very high value on quality legal services. (legalmarketingblog.com)
  • The primary legislation at hand is the Social Services Act, the Ordinance of the Social Services and the Care of Young Persons Act. (lu.se)
  • These services may include preventative care, acute care, specialized services, laboratory services, surgery, outpatient care, etc., and are provided to persons who come to the facility to receive services and depart from the facility on the same day. (cdc.gov)
  • 10,200 active attorneys ready to answer your legal questions today. (lawguru.com)
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  • People are now exercising their power to choose government representatives more focused on the protection of people over big money interests. (legalreader.com)
  • Also what is the time frame this will take to get legal custody? (azlawhelp.org)
  • Their salaries and actions would be controlled by the state, and their chief function would be to clarify legal principles of each case for the jury. (jrank.org)
  • Browse US Legal Forms' largest database of 85k state and industry-specific legal forms. (uslegal.com)
  • The legal complaint was filed at the Miami state court last Monday, the same day that the Florida State Health officials released a report that for the sixth day in a row, over 10,000 additional COVID-19 cases has been added to Florida's rapidly increasing number of people infected by the disease. (masryvititoe.com)
  • Now, even more good news is in for people in the state, as Washington now has 10 legal in-person sportsbooks for people to visit whenever they feel like placing a bet. (mytopsportsbooks.com)
  • College football is big in eastern Washington, with people always checking the NCAAF betting odds for teams like the Washington State Cougars and Eastern Washington Eagles. (mytopsportsbooks.com)
  • People can bet on sports at 10 casinos in Washington state, including the one in Ridgefield. (mytopsportsbooks.com)
  • In determining whether a person qualifies as a legal representative, we apply the law of the State or foreign country where the deceased individual was residing when they died. (ssa.gov)
  • Federal authority is important to control the Public health orders get the most permissive judicial interstate and international movement of persons who are review, the rational relationship test, because they are potentially infectious, but most isolation and quarantine based on objective criteria, are usually of limited duration, orders will be performed by state and local officials, using and are necessary to prevent imminent harm (9). (cdc.gov)
  • State public health laws do not need to be detailed and either be detained illegally or be released because of legal specific, but they can give public health agencies the gen- technicalities. (cdc.gov)
  • Administrative review is used routinely in state and Persons detained by the state may file a habeas corpus federal agency proceedings, including for mental health petition and demand that a court review their detention. (cdc.gov)
  • A retrospective review was begun in 1989 of severely injured persons registered from August 1982 through July 1989 through the EIRA, the first state registry of USEIR. (cdc.gov)
  • Cannabis use disorder (CUD) is common in a state where recreational use is legal, with moderate to severe CUD most prevalent among individuals who use it for nonmedical reasons, new research shows. (medscape.com)
  • The study, conducted by Kaiser Permanente in Washington State, where recreational cannabis use is legal, included 1463 predominantly middle-aged and female participants who reported past 30-day cannabis use on a confidential survey. (medscape.com)
  • No part of this legal analysis involves providing legal advice or answering specific questions of law on behalf of any person or organization. (cdc.gov)
  • Laws vary by jurisdiction and a nurse should seek legal guidance before filing a criminal complaint against a cognitively impaired person. (cdc.gov)
  • Her death rekindled the movement in Ireland and in 2018, Ireland changed its abortion law, becoming part of the group of about 28 countries that have changed their abortion law since 2000, most of them expanding legal grounds to access abortions more widely. (phmovement.org)
  • Statutes do released persons will nullify the disease control plan. (cdc.gov)
  • If a legal representative was deemed necessary, a friend of the defendant could participate in the arbitration. (jrank.org)
  • The term "legal representative," for the purpose of qualifying to receive an underpayment, generally means the administrator or executor of the deceased beneficiary's estate. (ssa.gov)
  • An executor is a person named in a will to act as representative of the deceased's estate. (ssa.gov)
  • A person who qualifies as a legal representative under a State's small estate statute. (ssa.gov)
  • For more information on determining whether a resident of a foreign country qualifies as a legal representative, see POMS GN 02301.080 through GN 02301.095 . (ssa.gov)
  • If there is a question about whether an individual qualifies as the legal representative, send the case to the regional office (RO). (ssa.gov)
  • The evidence required to determine whether a person qualifies as a legal representative depends on how the person seeks to qualify. (ssa.gov)
  • A proper court officer must certify documents submitted by a claimant as evidence of court appointment as a legal representative. (ssa.gov)
  • In Oregon, where recreational weed stores opened two months ago, there's a strain of cannabis for every personality, problem, and quirk -- making in-store conversations ripe for oversharing and pushing the $10-an-hour clerks into a foggy legal and ethical gray area. (thrillist.com)
  • Scientific, ethical, and legal considerations for the inclusion of pregnant people in clinical trials. (bvsalud.org)
  • This article summarizes the scientific, ethical, and legal considerations governing research conducted during pregnancy , as discussed during a recent subject matter expert convening held by the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and the United States Food and Drug Administration on this topic. (bvsalud.org)
  • The researchers said that the impacts were serious enough to raise into doubt whether people who've been tasered will understand their legal rights during any subsequent police arrest. (madinamerica.com)
  • What happens if the police arrest a person with mental health issues, and take them to jail and court? (legalaid.on.ca)
  • A person with mental illness - Mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person's thoughts, feelings, mood, ability to relate to others, and daily functions. (mass.gov)
  • Depending on the situation, the police may charge a person who has mental health issues with a criminal offence and hold them for bail. (legalaid.on.ca)
  • Ideally, an organization's health and safety policies should spell out the legal and mental health grounds for pursuing criminal action. (cdc.gov)
  • S/he is contracted to investigate, surveil, locate, and arrest a bail fugitive for surrender to appropriate authorities, or any person employed to assist in the arrest of such a fugitive. (uslegal.com)
  • Over the years, there have been many in-house counsel panels at various legal marketing conferences. (legalmarketingblog.com)
  • She is chief legal counsel for Our Children's Trust, one of the firms representing the plaintiffs. (kmuw.org)
  • The complaint was filed by the national union known as The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and its Florida affiliate, the Florida Education Association (FEA), in a proactive effort to obtain an injunction that would block Florida governor Rod DeSantis from issuing a statewide mandate for schools to hold in-person classes. (masryvititoe.com)
  • However, it was clear from Governor DeSantis' announcements earlier this month that his mandate for school reopening is for in-person schooling since he stated that "online learning is just not the same. (masryvititoe.com)
  • In the back and forth between Congress and the White House over immigration, both sides seem to agree that people now in the U.S. illegally should wait at "the back of the line" for legal residency - meaning no green card until all other immigrants get theirs. (wunc.org)
  • See if you're eligible to become a guardian of an incapacitated adult and find out who's considered an incapacitated person. (mass.gov)
  • Who can become a guardian of an incapacitated person? (mass.gov)
  • A temporary guardian may be appointed if it's likely that there will be immediate, considerable harm to the health, safety, or well being of the person. (mass.gov)
  • If so, this person or a legal guardian can agree to a DNR order for you. (medlineplus.gov)
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  • Data were obtained from EIRA standard report forms and from direct interviews with each injured person and/or family members. (cdc.gov)
  • New Jersey Law Journal honors lawyers leaving a mark on the legal community in New Jersey with their dedication to the profession. (law.com)
  • After the war, lawyers were once again an important part of the legal system but were used primarily by the wealthy. (jrank.org)
  • They were regarded as conspirators, however, for people could not accept the idea that lawyers who served as politicians made the laws by which they secured a living as legal practitioners. (jrank.org)
  • It was also feared that lawyers, judges, and legislators would band together to control society, depriving the common people of some of their hard-won freedoms. (jrank.org)
  • Shays's Rebellion did not stop the people of Massachusetts from electing lawyers to political positions. (jrank.org)
  • As legal personality is a prerequisite to legal capacity (the ability of any legal person to amend - i.e. enter into, transfer, etc. - rights and obligations), it is a prerequisite for an international organization to be able to sign international treaties in its own name. (wikipedia.org)
  • This system remained successful as long as the population of each community remained small and manageable, and the people were clear about their rights and obligations to their neighbors and the community. (jrank.org)
  • The bail fugitive recovery person refers to a person who tracks down criminal defendants who fail to show up in court after a bond company has posted their bail. (uslegal.com)
  • After they have been hit by a taser, most people experience a significant diminishing in their memory and cognitive functions for up to an hour, according to an unpublished study discussed in Live Science . (madinamerica.com)
  • The two separate studies share the common theme of the influence of legal principles on decisions concerning the care of a young person in a home for care or residence. (lu.se)
  • Study I has the title A study on the legal security of young persons in proceedings on institutional care in the context of the principles of legality, equality, objectivity and the best interest of the child. (lu.se)
  • The results of Study I and Study II laid the foundation for the elaboration of an explanatory model concerning the function and capacity of legal principles to create trust with regard to decisions on care of young persons and their placement in homes for care or residence. (lu.se)
  • The model conveys a description and an explanation why and in what manner legal principles seek to create trust and to establish trust in relation to the individual person with regard to interpersonal modes of action by way of the legal order. (lu.se)
  • While natural persons acquire legal personality "naturally", simply by being born (or before that, in some jurisdictions), juridical persons must have legal personality conferred on them by some "unnatural", legal process, and it is for this reason that they are sometimes called "artificial" persons. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the most common case (incorporating a business), legal personality is usually acquired by registration with a government agency set up for the purpose. (wikipedia.org)
  • Entities with legal personality may also be subjected to certain legal obligations, such as the payment of taxes. (wikipedia.org)
  • An entity with legal personality may shield its members from personal liability. (wikipedia.org)
  • In some common law jurisdictions a distinction is drawn between corporation aggregate (such as a company, which is composed of a number of members) and a corporation sole, which is a public office of legal personality separated from the individual holding the office (these entities have separate legal personality). (wikipedia.org)
  • can a person with a conflict of interest be on city council? (lawguru.com)
  • In legal conflict there is a difficulty in communication between the parties, because their anxious, their disarray and disturbance in their perception of the facts, it is fundamental to the intervention of anyone to act as a conciliator. (bvsalud.org)
  • They were also criticized for the use of legal jargon, causing simple matters to seem complicated. (jrank.org)
  • A reasonable person would know they are free to terminate the interrogation by hanging up the call. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • In all the examples above, it is likely that reasonable adjustments could be made to include a deaf child or young person. (ndcs.org.uk)
  • Deciding not to include a child or young person, without demonstrating that all reasonable adjustments have been considered, is discriminatory. (ndcs.org.uk)
  • There are two types of immigration, legal and illegal and there are different visa types for people immigrating into the country. (bartleby.com)
  • The total estimated backlog for legal immigration is 4 million people. (wunc.org)
  • It's why almost everyone pushing an immigration overhaul says any new law has to ease the current backlog of legal green card applicants before putting the estimated 11 million undocumented in line behind them. (wunc.org)
  • An influence can be seen from American Legal Realism in some areas of critical legal studies. (bartleby.com)
  • An incapacitated person - An incapacitated person is someone who doesn't have the ability to make their own decisions. (mass.gov)
  • Writing an op-ed for the New York Times , University of Texas professor Daniel Hamermesh cites findings that good-looking people make more money, find higher-earning spouses, and get better mortgage deals. (abajournal.com)
  • While they don't have super high Super Bowl betting odds, this team still has what it takes to surprise some people in the playoffs if they're able to make it in. (mytopsportsbooks.com)
  • In fact, the people, you know, I could make an argument that in one of these states in particular, the leadership is moving farther to the right. (kmuw.org)
  • Can fiction make us better people? (lu.se)
  • Statement on access to safe, quality and legal abortion Peoples Health Movement (PHM) Following on the fourth People's Health Assembly (PHA) of the global People's Health Movement (PHM) concluded in Savar, Bangladesh on 19 November 2019, the PHM reiterates girls' and women's rights to health and life, to equality, and sexual and reproductive autonomy. (phmovement.org)
  • Provides general civil legal assistance to low income people living in the Navajo Nation's Tuba City Judicial District in Coconino and Navajo Counties, Arizona. (azlawhelp.org)
  • States exercised these powers as nec- antine laws to provide varying levels of mandatory judicial essary, quarantining persons and even whole cities and review, in some cases requiring that a person be provided regions (3). (cdc.gov)
  • The combination of that with increased border enforcement has led people to come in illegally and then end up staying once they got into the country because it's become more difficult to cross in the first place," Anderson says. (wunc.org)
  • Conciliation is the most effective means of resolving legal disputes to be voluntary act, and it is less expensive and faster, and enable the restoration of relationship. (bvsalud.org)
  • EMHJ requires, where appropriate, a statement from authors that all persons who participated in their research had given their voluntary, informed, written consent. (who.int)
  • This public responsibility may lead to a decision on voluntary or involuntary care outside the home of the person in need for care. (lu.se)
  • this may result in a legal decision in which the rights or duties of a corporation or public limited company are treated as the rights or liabilities of that corporation's members or directors. (wikipedia.org)
  • Our findings suggest that a lower drinking age increases risky sexual behavior among young people, and that leads to more unplanned pregnancies that result in premature birth and low birth weight," said study author Angela Fertig, assistant professor in the UGA College of Public Health. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Throughout early U.S. history, legal practitioners were the subject of ambivalence on the part of the general public. (jrank.org)
  • What Legal Reader and many others have done so well is to provide information such that in the court of public opinion, we the people now have a more informed and effective voice. (legalreader.com)
  • If a person seeks to qualify as a public administrator, they must show proof of their authority to collect the deceased's assets as a public administrator. (ssa.gov)
  • The best way to balance public protection with private tecting persons against illegal detention. (cdc.gov)
  • The take-home message is that when it's easier for young people to get alcohol, birth outcomes are worse. (sciencedaily.com)
  • As for the plan that created the road map for these policies so harmful to we the people, Americans should read the infamous 1971 Lewis Powell Memo that resulted in Nixon appointing Powell to the Supreme Court. (legalreader.com)
  • Perhaps ECT too is harmful to a persons ability to give informed consent into continuing the procedure. (madinamerica.com)
  • Maria has been waiting in line with her husband for 16 years and counting for what the government calls a priority date for legal residency. (wunc.org)
  • A deaf young person on a virtual work placement for a marketing firm struggles to follow team meetings because they are chaotic with people talking over each other. (ndcs.org.uk)
  • On December 26 some 319 wanted persons from Damascus, Damascus countryside, Hasaka and Idleb turned in themselves to authorities to have their legal status settled, while on 12 December 110 persons from Damascus and Damascus countryside turned themselves in. (sana.sy)
  • Organization concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. (who.int)
  • The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the largest bilateral funder of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and control programs worldwide, currently supports implementation of preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to reduce HIV incidence among persons at substantial risk for infection, including female sex workers, men who have sex with men (MSM), and transgender women (hereafter referred to as key populations). (cdc.gov)
  • According to new study, many of these giant logs may have come from unauthorized areas, including protected areas and indigenous territories, outside of legal concessions. (mongabay.com)
  • Land acknowledgement: Legal Aid Ontario recognizes that its work, and the work of its community partners take place on traditional Indigenous territories across the province. (legalaid.on.ca)
  • Publishing on IntechOpen allows authors to earn citations and find new collaborators, meaning more people see your work not only from your own field of study, but from other related fields too. (intechopen.com)
  • We have a lot of people battling meth addiction in this area, trying to find an upper substitute so they can kick it. (thrillist.com)
  • Some examples of juridical persons include: Cooperatives (co-ops), business organization owned and democratically operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit Corporations are bodies corporate created by statute or charter. (wikipedia.org)
  • It cited three reasons to support its conclusion: the coercive pressures in questioning are substantially diminished for an incarcerated person than someone arrested in the first instance, incarcerated individuals have far less pressure to speak with the hope of securing release, and incarcerated individuals know their questioners "probably lack authority to affect the duration of [their] sentence. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • We take pride in exposing the hypocrisy of corporations, other organizations, and individuals whose actions put innocent people in harm's way. (legalreader.com)
  • The concept of a juridical person is now central to Western law in both common-law and civil-law countries, but it is also found in virtually every other legal system. (wikipedia.org)
  • If locking more and more people up for longer and longer periods of time had some positive benefit there might be some justification for arguing for a continuation of a failing system of corrections. (prisonlegalnews.org)