• We have one private lawyer for every 367 residents and one legal aid lawyer for every 8,000 indigent Tar Heels. (yahoo.com)
  • The Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services oversees that system, and its executive director and eight commissioners are named as defendants in the complaint filed Tuesday. (pressherald.com)
  • While there are many skilled and committed defense attorneys in Maine, MCILS has failed in its constitutional and statutory obligation to supervise, administer and fund a system that provides effective representation to indigent defendants throughout the entire criminal legal process," the complaint says. (pressherald.com)
  • The plan also includes plans to give indigent people with high housing costs continued food stamps. (feminist.org)
  • a key contributor to South Africa's constitutional democracy, providing quality legal services to indigent and vulnerable persons. (legal-aid.co.za)
  • Provide legal representation to indigent accused persons at High Court level. (legal-aid.co.za)
  • Last year, LANC's 230 heroic poverty lawyers handled legal challenges for over 55,000 North Carolinians. (yahoo.com)
  • A comprehensive 2008 study of the access to legal services for the poor in Indiana shows that about 86 percent of those living in poverty reported at least one legal problem. (ebglaw.com)
  • He also underlined the fact that people living in poverty are the ones sentenced to death. (worldcoalition.org)
  • If sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is to eliminate ultra poverty, for example - that is people living on less than just $1 a day (2011 PPP), an estimate of the minimum survival level - by 2030, its current progress needs to be nearly twice as fast, rising to over three times as fast if no action is taken in the next six years. (bvsalud.org)
  • Presently, an unacceptably high level of these needs go unmet. (ebglaw.com)
  • Glasgow's LEZ, which effectively excludes the most polluting vehicles from our city centre, protects public health by tackling unacceptably high levels of harmful air pollution that have long persisted in the zone area. (glasgow.gov.uk)
  • In January 2022, there were about 428,000 people working in the legal cannabis industry across the country. (cdc.gov)
  • The number of refugees worldwide has risen markedly in the recent past, reaching a record high in April 2022 of more than 30 million. (ipsnews.net)
  • Though South Africa ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2007, children with disabilities still do not have equal access to education. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is also the most visibly poor place of any I have been to outside India or South Africa, and the horrors on show hold lessons for London. (samizdata.net)
  • People from Texas, Louisiana, South Africa and Nigeria travelled to the meeting with campaigners from Friends of the Earth to raise their concerns, publishing an alternative version of Shell's report for shareholders. (foei.org)
  • Legal Aid South Africa provides professional legal advice and representation to those who cannot afford it. (legal-aid.co.za)
  • Although child mortality has declined in all income groups, the gap between the richest and the poorest family in society is increasing. (who.int)
  • The industry relentlessly crows about the speed of electronic transfers, while conveniently glossing over the high fees that typically accompany these services. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Most clients place a very high value on quality legal services. (legalmarketingblog.com)
  • Greater Boston Legal Services is the primary provider of free, non-criminal legal assistance in the Greater Boston area. (idealist.org)
  • We are the oldest and largest legal services program in New England. (idealist.org)
  • Throughout our history, we have been committed to our mission: to provide high quality legal services to as many poor people as possible. (idealist.org)
  • In addition, our Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services Office (CASLS) offers legal assistance in all of these areas to residents of Cambridge, Somerville and surrounding towns. (idealist.org)
  • Atlas DIY works on "Collaborating with young people to provide direct services in legal, educational, career and life skills realms, 2) Developing young people's individual strengths and encouraging them to become community agents through a cooperative model and 3) Constructing an online hub of legal information and self‑advocacy tools that youth across the United States can easily access and understand. (nysed.gov)
  • One group organizes tenants, a second group provides high-quality low-cost childcare, and the third group provides free legal services to poor people. (shelterforce.org)
  • The legal services group has some extra money, but few volunteers. (shelterforce.org)
  • The legal services group pays for a bank of 10 phones to be hooked up at the childcare facility two weekday nights and the weekend. (shelterforce.org)
  • Over 2 million of our impoverished sisters and brothers, in theory, qualify for services from Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC) or other nonprofit providers. (yahoo.com)
  • The great bulk of legal services funding comes from federal sources. (yahoo.com)
  • Maine is the only state that provides those legal services solely with private attorneys who are reimbursed by the state, instead of public defenders who are government employees. (pressherald.com)
  • The Law Office of Diamond R. Litty, Public Defender, 19th Judicial Circuit is committed to continue to provide legal representation and services to our clients during this trying time. (pd19.org)
  • In 2001, the federal Legal Services Corp. sent about $460,000 to Mississippi to fund civil legal service programs for low-income residents, according to Larry Houchins, executive director of the Mississippi Bar and Mississippi Bar Foundation. (americanbar.org)
  • More than $260,000 in fees has been distributed to the state's two legal services programs and the bar's Volunteer Lawyers Project. (americanbar.org)
  • A pro hac vice fee is just one of a number of methods that bar foundations, bar associations, and other providers and funders of civil legal services are promoting to help low-income people gain access to the justice system. (americanbar.org)
  • But it is not the first time bar foundations and other funders or providers of civil legal services have faced challenges. (americanbar.org)
  • His bar has raised from its members about half of the $1.2 million it has targeted for civil legal services needs, Tinder says, in a first-ever direct fundraising campaign. (americanbar.org)
  • In neighboring Virginia, a coalition of bar presidents statewide took the unusual step of sending letters earlier this year to every practicing lawyer in the state in response to a "financial crisis at the Legal Services Corp. of Virginia," prompted by the falloff in IOLTA and other revenue, says Ted Ellett, president of the Virginia Bar Association. (americanbar.org)
  • Money was included in the governor's introduced budget to pay for these costs and the proposed amendments include technical fixes to make sure the DMV has sufficient resources to provide high-quality services. (thecommonwealthinstitute.org)
  • Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors immigration restrictions, said she does not believe the draft rule intends to deter people from accessing services. (medscape.com)
  • Drug use is associated with high-risk sexual activity, unsafe sex and unplanned pregnancy. (mayoclinic.org)
  • Participants were divided into 4 of the population in Italy) are living in Italy (62.5% in the groups according to their risk for HIV infection: 1) com- northern region, 25% in the central region, and 12.5% in mercial sex workers, 2) persons reporting unsafe sex (occa- the southern region) ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The Empire Justice Center mission is "to protect and strengthen the legal rights of people in New York State who are poor, disabled or disenfranchised through: systems change advocacy, training and support to other advocates and organizations, and high quality direct civil legal representation. (nysed.gov)
  • Unlike most advanced democracies, we offer no constitutional right to representation even in complex or high stakes civil litigation. (yahoo.com)
  • The complaint also says the five incarcerated people have struggled to reach their appointed attorneys to talk about their cases and do not have faith in their representation. (pressherald.com)
  • Instead, they seek the higher level of professional satisfaction of representing the people who most need legal representation. (pd19.org)
  • Legal representation at High Court level. (legal-aid.co.za)
  • Poor judgment. (mayoclinic.org)
  • Teenage drug use is associated with poor judgment in social and personal interactions. (mayoclinic.org)
  • Poor insight into one's disorder or behaviors and poor judgment accompany mania. (medscape.com)
  • This parasite requires the use of 8-aminoquinoline drugs to prevent relapses from liver hypnozoites, but high prevalence of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in the endemic human populations makes it difficult to adopt this treatment regimen. (intechopen.com)
  • Prevalence of use differed by race and ethnicity and school performance and was highest among American Indian/Alaska Native students. (cdc.gov)
  • Although recreational marijuana use was legalized in Washington in 2012 for persons aged ≥21 years, the prevalence of marijuana use among 10th graders did not change during 2002-2014. (cdc.gov)
  • I am not referring here to the outcome of a legal matter, although that certainly is important. (legalmarketingblog.com)
  • Outcome studies show that compared with unipolar depression, bipolar disorder causes more work disability and overall poorer outcome 15 years after an index hospitalized manic episode even when mania is in remission for at least 1 year. (medscape.com)
  • Tribunals are far away, defense is ineffective, fees are high. (worldcoalition.org)
  • Congratulations on using your new journalistic platform to try to pressure tech companies to terminate the ability of impoverished criminal defendants to raise money for their legal defense from online donations. (pjmedia.com)
  • If you've been charged with something, we believe it's important that you can get the best legal defense you can get," Wilson added. (pjmedia.com)
  • Every time we stepped out of our city-centre hotel, we saw homeless people slumped on the pavements or wandering aimlessly. (samizdata.net)
  • Expanding the reach of the LEZ to include all vehicles is an important milestone in ensuring cleaner air for Glasgow - addressing levels and concentrations of air pollution which have remained stubbornly high in the city centre, in breach of the legal limits. (glasgow.gov.uk)
  • It covers an area of the city centre bounded by the M8 motorway to the north and west, the River Clyde to the south and Saltmarket/High Street to the east. (glasgow.gov.uk)
  • This is the opposite of what occurs in places like Paris and other cities in Europe, where the immigrants live in high-rise buildings outside the city and the elites are in the city centre. (lu.se)
  • Typically that person came into prison with poor impulse control, weak if any attachment to legal employment, and few marketable skills. (brennancenter.org)
  • However, to be granted asylum, a person typically needs to meet the standards of the legal definition of a refugee. (ipsnews.net)
  • These tests are typically used to test for alcohol use disorder (AUD) or to check whether a person recovering from AUD has stayed sober. (medlineplus.gov)
  • A successful career as a trial attorney representing poor people accused of crimes never made me forget where I came from, and I held onto my deep sense of identity grounded in my Mexican border town culture. (nclrights.org)
  • A team of USA Today reporters targeted online crowdfunding platforms that allow people accused of crimes related to the Capitol riot to raise money for their legal defenses. (pjmedia.com)
  • A lawyer with a reputation for poor service often has poor people skills. (legalmarketingblog.com)
  • Many years later, says Shestack, his grandfather's message was reinforced by his son Jonathan at the age of 7: "Asked what's a lawyer do, he said, 'He helps people. (abajournal.com)
  • And lots of people can't afford a lawyer. (yahoo.com)
  • The U.S. Supreme Court has held that any person who is charged with a crime and facing potential jail time has the right to a lawyer, and that the government is obligated to pay if that person cannot. (pressherald.com)
  • Those hearings are particularly important for people who are in jail because the lawyer of the day can advocate for their release and negotiate bail. (pressherald.com)
  • It's like the Oklahoma land rush for an hour," said Russell Overby, a lawyer with the Legal Aid Society in Nashville. (theincidentaleconomist.com)
  • In the month after getting out, a person released from prison has about a dozen times the mortality rate of comparable people in the same neighborhood, with the leading causes of death among former inmates being drug overdose, heart attacks, murder, and suicide. (brennancenter.org)
  • The mortality rate of children in mountainous and rural areas or of poor families is three to four times higher than that of children in lowland areas or of better-off families. (who.int)
  • Limited access and/or low quality of obstetric and newborn care, particularly at remote, minority communities has resulted in the high rates of neonatal mortality which represents about 70 per cent of infant mortality and more than 50 per cent of under-five mortality. (who.int)
  • 2018). Long-term exposure to elevated levels of PM2.5 is associated with higher rates of mortality from a number of conditions ranging from cancer to cardiopulmonary disease (Dockery & Pope, 1994). (cdc.gov)
  • Shestack also was the first chair of what is now the ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, chaired the Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indi-gent Defendants, and helped found the Center for Pro Bono. (abajournal.com)
  • The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine has filed a lawsuit that says the state is failing to meet its constitutional obligations to ensure poor defendants have access to effective lawyers. (pressherald.com)
  • Defendants accused in the Capitol riot Jan. 6 crowdfund their legal fees online, using popular payment processors and an expanding network of fundraising platforms, despite a crackdown by tech companies," USA Today reported. (pjmedia.com)
  • Currently, medical marijuana is legal in 21 states and the District of Columbia. (zmescience.com)
  • medical marijuana use has been legal since 1998. (cdc.gov)
  • Estimated HIV in- cidence rates among migrants are 64.0 cases (for men) and 2004-2007 52.5 cases (for women)/100,000 persons in 2007. (cdc.gov)
  • But this is where we find ourselves, in a City whose staff systematically disenfranchises poor people and writes orders to profile its most vulnerable citizens for the sake of… well, themselves. (redletterchristians.org)
  • And it's not a "wealthy" place -- a lot of US legal citizens are living in what I would call barely passable housing. (lucianne.com)
  • They are poor citizens who are victims of their legal ignorance. (worldcoalition.org)
  • Other legal needs include, for example, assistance for victims of fraud, drafting health care powers of attorney, family law matters including child custody and support, and creating guardianships for those who are cognitively impaired. (ebglaw.com)
  • In raising awareness of the dangers facing these women and children, and exposing the business model and tactics used by people traffickers to lure in their victims, this media and social media coverage serves a useful purpose. (womensforumaustralia.org)
  • To study white supremacists is to examine a collection of broken people who see their own hardships and traumas as evidence that they are the world s victims, Lowery writes. (ronpaulforums.com)
  • Maine has failed in its duty to train, supervise and ensure the lawyers it assigns to defend poor people's freedom are qualified for this essential task," said Zachary Heiden, chief counsel at the ACLU of Maine. (pressherald.com)
  • The report painted these desperate people's attempts to raise funds for their legal defenses as something nefarious. (pjmedia.com)
  • The law states that persons who intend to hold public office or work as contractors for the government for more than three months shall submit a statement of assets and income as well as information on their private economic activity. (state.gov)
  • Wet conditions and poor ventilation in work environments. (cdc.gov)
  • 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)
  • But the more time I spent in Olneyville, talking with the people who live and work there, the more I realized I was looking at things too narrowly. (justia.com)
  • It mattered a great deal to the people who live and work in Olneyville. (justia.com)
  • Do Doctors Have a Legal Right to Work From Home Due to Health Issues or Disability? (medscape.com)
  • Although the case was resolved without a definitive win, legal analysts say the complaint raises important questions about whether some physicians have the right to work from home. (medscape.com)
  • In the high time of maintaining social distancing during COVID-19, many countries have imposed various degrees of work from home policies to minimize virus contraction amongst colleagues. (lu.se)
  • 2020) observed a slightly higher rate of work from home - 38% have worked from home. (lu.se)
  • In contrast to Poe's work, The Moonstone (1868) presents a detective who employs scientific methods to a higher degree. (lu.se)
  • Legal paradoxes aside, S 697 sets a dangerous precedent, especially for states with high concentrations of people of color or poor populations. (environmental-action.org)
  • That's why it's disappointing that six Attorneys General from states with high concentrations of people of color - including Alabama, Georgia, Michigan and Louisiana, home of the infamous "Cancer Alley" - wrote a letter supporting S 697. (environmental-action.org)
  • Fees for phone or in-person payments (options more likely to appeal to low-income people without a bank account) were generally higher than for online payments. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Yes, it seems USA Today reporters successfully pressured these companies to remove online fundraisers to raise legal fees for Biggs and Pezzola, who face criminal charges related to the Capitol riot. (pjmedia.com)
  • According to USA Today , 10 people accused of breaking federal law in the Capitol riot are raising fees for their legal defenses on GiveSendGo. (pjmedia.com)
  • The plans include an additional $13 billion, aimed mainly at aiding legal immigrants, especially immigrant children and disabled immigrants. (feminist.org)
  • The Peruvian government concluded that Doe Run Peru had failed to meet the environmental cleanup commitments at the site and this constituted a breach of their environmental legal standards. (countercurrents.org)
  • An article released last night by News & Observer reporter Colin Campbell revealed that City of Raleigh officials at the highest levels plotted for months to to find "legal" ways to keep people who wish to help the poor out of Moore Square Park. (redletterchristians.org)
  • In 2007, 99% of children in the neighborhood closest to the town's smelter had dangerously high levels of lead in their blood. (countercurrents.org)
  • Many may not realize that Western Boone County is part of a swath of territory that suffers from the highest levels of foreclosure in the State of Indiana. (ebglaw.com)
  • Its poor economic conditions create high levels of unemployment and consequent vulnerability to exploitation. (womensforumaustralia.org)
  • The world is also experiencing record levels of refugees, asylum seekers and persons displaced across borders. (ipsnews.net)
  • Javier's boss, Andy, thinks that immigration levels are too high. (chronicle.com)
  • Ghettos formed in places like Chicago, Cleveland and New York, and the segregation levels began to reach very high levels. (lu.se)
  • 2015) suggests a pro-poor growth agenda helps to improve overall growth levels. (bvsalud.org)
  • Over the years, there have been many in-house counsel panels at various legal marketing conferences. (legalmarketingblog.com)
  • It often does not get better when it ends: Of the people released from prison today, about 60 percent will be back behind bars within three years. (brennancenter.org)
  • Over the last five years, the long game of white supremacy has stymied police reform, thwarted student debt relief, criminalized Black history, ousted Black educators attempting to equalize education and made it harder for Black people to cast ballots. (ronpaulforums.com)
  • A recent survey from Lambda Legal found 5 percent of of respondents among the LGBT community and those living with HIV reported being in jail or prison in the past five years, compared to the nearly 3 percent of all U.S. adults who are under some form of correctional supervision (jail, prison, probation, or parole) at any given time. (vox.com)
  • Many advocates, including Legal Aid Justice Center, have worked for years to see this important reform, and you can contact your legislator to support this change. (thecommonwealthinstitute.org)
  • Legal Aid SA is a credible employer of choice, boasting Top Employer SA accreditation for fourteen (14) consecutive years. (legal-aid.co.za)
  • A minimum of four (4) years of High Court experience, or a minimum of six (6) years of Regional Court experience. (legal-aid.co.za)
  • A number of states, including Washington, have legalized purchase of marijuana for recreational use among persons aged ≥21 years. (cdc.gov)
  • The Long Island Advocacy Center "is a private non-for-profit agency dedicated to protecting the legal rights of students and individuals with disabilities. (nysed.gov)
  • He has championed the causes of women, of ethnic minorities, of those with mental disabilities, of political prisoners, of the poor, of people unable to access legal counsel, of religious minorities, of those in need of legal champions in the United States or in the far corners of the world, and many others. (abajournal.com)
  • ssistive products can benefit a wide range of people, including those with disabilities and noncommunicable diseases, as well as older people. (who.int)
  • In 2018, the World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA71.8 on improving access to quality assistive technology at an affordable cost, strengthening national efforts and fostering international cooperation, thereby recalling the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. (who.int)
  • I think a lot of people don't think about those with invisible disabilities, such as people with allergies, those who are immunocompromised, those with chronic illnesses. (medscape.com)
  • This failure has created two systems of justice: one for the wealthy, and one for the poor. (pressherald.com)
  • Do we think only the wealthy people that have money should be able to fund an attorney? (pjmedia.com)
  • The emails also reveal that Sauer changed park policies on the advice of the Raleigh Police Department to allow indiscriminate banning of classes of people, and that she sought legal counsel to find ways to ban food distribution on public sidewalks. (redletterchristians.org)
  • We live in an age of financial technology (known as "fintech"), where people are accustomed to digitally sending or receiving money from friends and family at little or no cost. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • According to a 2021 Equal Access to Justice Commission report , the top civil justice categories engaging LANC attorneys are domestic abuse and family rights (26%), landlord-tenant (15%), subsidized housing (6%), child custody (5%), debt collection (3%), public benefits (3%), and an array of other legal crises regularly faced by poor people in North Carolina. (yahoo.com)
  • Major children and living persons must directly contact the owner of this family tree. (geneanet.org)
  • Therefore, the person's financial accounts or important relationships may be in such disarray as to lead to adverse outcomes, including loss of important friends and family support or connections, serious financial setbacks, job losses, legal problems, and homelessness. (medscape.com)
  • Living somewhere drugs are easily about harmful consequences and starts to fail in their available, being poor, having a disrupted family, social roles and responsibilities. (who.int)
  • Certain historical and demographic factors, including age, race, family history, and past ocular history, have been shown to have a high association for the disease. (medscape.com)
  • When I was in junior high school, the first black family moved into Olympia. (lu.se)
  • Currently, working Virginians who are too poor to pay court costs can lose their driver's license, forcing them to choose between breaking the law and losing their only way to get to their job. (thecommonwealthinstitute.org)
  • When you talk to San Franciscans, many take the view that homeless people are sent there from cities whose welfare provision is less generous than California's. (samizdata.net)
  • combine that with negligible health provision for the poor and you end up with a lot of mentally ill people on the streets. (samizdata.net)
  • A provision hidden deep within the budget bill changes the rules of the NC Legal Education Assistance Foundation (NC-LEAF) to make sure that no state funds can be used to help repay the law school debts of any attorney employed by LANC. (yahoo.com)
  • Deceased persons are not concerned by this provision. (geneanet.org)
  • Within the framework, various milestones and targets are identified, focusing on five interlinked dimensions: people-centred approach, policy, products, provision and personnel. (who.int)
  • More often than not, he is returning to a high crime neighborhood. (brennancenter.org)
  • Like every poor, urban neighborhood, Olneyville has more than its share of challenges, and the group walks past vacant lots, abandoned buildings, and derelict houses. (justia.com)
  • Again and again, people who had very different connections to the neighborhood brought up the Walking School Bus as a demonstration of something important to their slice of the community. (justia.com)
  • After all, a safe neighborhood where people cannot be healthy is no better than a healthy neighborhood where people cannot be safe. (justia.com)
  • A massive 2021 study by the North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Commission found that the unmet legal need of low-income Tar Heels is particularly "acute. (yahoo.com)
  • The Equal Access Commission report found, shockingly, that 86% of the legal needs of our low-income residents simply go unmet. (yahoo.com)
  • Every legal aid program is forced to turn away many of the people who seek its assistance," says Bob Echols, director of the Access to Justice Support Project. (americanbar.org)
  • At the end of the day, huge numbers of desperately ill people are being left out in the cold," said Gordon Bonnyman, the executive director of the Tennessee Justice Center , an advocacy group for families in need that focuses on access to health care. (theincidentaleconomist.com)
  • Currently, only about 15% to 25% of people in need of assistive products have access to them. (who.int)
  • In order to meet the MDG4 in the whole country, further effort is needed to assure universal access to high-impact packages of essential child survival interventions. (who.int)
  • And corrections is squeezing higher education out of state budgets. (brennancenter.org)
  • Republican lawmakers have punished LANC before, like in 2017 when the GOP-led General Assembly cut much of the state funding legal aid groups use to help low-income clients facing evictions. (yahoo.com)
  • Faced with shrinking IOLTA funds, shifting federal aid, unreliable state funding, and a fickle grants market, many civil legal service providers continue to scour for innovative ways to fund programs they say are vital to their mission of providing civil legal assistance to those least able to afford it. (americanbar.org)
  • Studies in Washington state, Connecticut, and Massachusetts in 2003 found that half to two-thirds of low-income residents experienced a civil legal need during a year, compared to half of those surveyed in the ABA report, Echols says. (americanbar.org)
  • Although the number of low-income people in the state needing assistance hasn't changed much, Kleiman says, other states have seen greater needs. (americanbar.org)
  • We, as a legal profession, need to utilize all options for additional sources of income," says Tom Tinder, executive director of the West Virginia State Bar and a past president of the National Association of Bar Executives. (americanbar.org)
  • State residents who have high medical bills but would not normally qualify for Medicaid , the government health care program for the poor, can call a state phone line and request an application. (theincidentaleconomist.com)
  • About 500 people are found to be eligible for the program each time the state opens the phone line. (theincidentaleconomist.com)
  • In order to achieve equality, the state´s (legal) responsibility is to both respect the individual´s freedom, and to ensure positive measures to break the discriminatory cycles in which both private and public sector risk generating and reproducing. (lu.se)
  • Below, we provide the results of our review, identify notable trends in this realm, and highlight steps families of people who are incarcerated, regulators, procurement officials, and companies can take to make money transfers more convenient, affordable, and easy to understand. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • They use the drug frequently and have an intense or weak people. (who.int)
  • Many of South Africa's anti-apartheid laws have been enacted while keeping in mind that what is seen by the international community, human rights organisations, and the Black majority in the country as the social and legal injustices associated with apartheid, and its anti-apartheid message has been hailed as an exemplary face of a Sub-Saharan nation. (wikipedia.org)
  • The corporate driven investment rules and "dispute resolution" were exposed into public view when a decade ago, Bechtel, a San Francisco based engineering conglomerate, sued the people of Bolivia for $50 million in lost profits following the now-famous Cochabamba Water Revolt after investing just $1 million in the country. (countercurrents.org)
  • For a poor country like Peru, this is enough money to pay salaries of almost 15,000 Peruvian school teachers or nearly 6,000 Peruvian health workers. (countercurrents.org)
  • Finally, Pax Christi Uvira's Director shared his concerns regarding people sentenced to death in the country. (worldcoalition.org)
  • 2000 people were on Rwandan death row when the country abolished the death penalty in 2007. (worldcoalition.org)
  • Since the Russian invasion began, more than three and a half million people have fled the country. (womensforumaustralia.org)
  • All patriotic people in this country highly commend you for taking this legal action against the treacherous CBK (Chaura Rejina). (lankaweb.com)
  • This decision must stand and should be the case in any future constitution since this is wish of the majority of people of this country. (lankaweb.com)
  • It is an effort being carried out in earnest across the country as the demand for assistance grows and the gulf between the courthouse and the poor threatens to widen. (americanbar.org)
  • Now it seems we find out that the controls were inadequate and the high deposit accounts have been allowed to flee the country. (gardeviance.org)
  • As many as 4 mil- country who registered for a visit at each center were asked lion (720,000 undocumented) foreign-born persons (7% to participate in the study. (cdc.gov)
  • Migrant fusion in their country of origin, and 4) persons with no risk women are often forced into prostitution. (cdc.gov)
  • I suppose that if a police officer threatens to arrest a pastor for sharing food with hungry people, I shouldn't be surprised that other City staff also conspired to push poor folks out of the same public park, or that they conveniently can't find the emails from the time period of the premeditated crackdown. (redletterchristians.org)
  • So all those high and mighty "we're a sanctuary city" value-signalers who are now moaning and groaning that folks are taking them up on their claims can stick it where the sun don't shine. (lucianne.com)
  • In three of them, homeless people walked in, took stuff and walked out. (samizdata.net)
  • Though I would guess that none of them would be reluctant on ideological grounds to mention rent control as the main cause of San Francisco's problems, as far as I recall they have usually cited the explanation that Emma Duncan rejects, namely over-generous welfare payments that act as a magnet to homeless people from other states. (samizdata.net)
  • If a single shop has homeless people walking in and openly stealing from it without fear of punishment seven or eight times a day, then bad governance most certainly is operating. (samizdata.net)
  • As a result, a Center for American Progress (CAP) report found LGBT people make up 20 to 40 percent of the homeless population despite making up just 5 to 7 percent of the overall population. (vox.com)
  • The Department of Homeland Security draft policy, first reported by Reuters last week, would allow immigration officers reviewing applications for permanent residency to consider whether foreign-born people seeking to live in the United States sought or received a range of public benefits for themselves or their dependents, including American-born children. (medscape.com)
  • President Donald Trump, who took a hard line on illegal immigration during the 2016 election campaign, has also sought to curtail legal immigration. (medscape.com)
  • It's to make sure that the United States is not giving out green cards to people who don't qualify because they're not self-sufficient," Vaughan said. (medscape.com)
  • Prosecutors, public defenders, government lawyers and other nonprofit public interest practitioners may be eligible, but not LANC legal aid lawyers. (yahoo.com)
  • The legal aid lawyers excluded aren't out pressing some radical, left-wing structural litigation strategy. (yahoo.com)
  • Nor are legal aid lawyers well positioned on the legal profession's salary ladder. (yahoo.com)
  • Reacting to the cuts, the Mississippi Legislature passed a measure in 2003 requiring lawyers licensed in other states to pay a $200 pro hac vice fee for representing clients in Mississippi courts, with the money to go into a newly created Civil Legal Assistance Fund. (americanbar.org)
  • Industries like prostitution and surrogacy - which are both flourishing in Ukraine - commodify and exploit women and children, exacerbate their vulnerability, and create the markets that people traffickers fill. (womensforumaustralia.org)
  • In accordance with the legal provisions, you can ask for the removal of your name and the name of your minor children. (geneanet.org)
  • People recognize it, wave to the kids, and are warmed at the sight of school children chattering and skipping down the sidewalk, oblivious to the rest of the world. (justia.com)
  • Represent women, children and landless people in civil matters. (legal-aid.co.za)
  • Examples of societal structures subjecting women, children and people with a foreign background other than Danish will be used in order to raise relevant foundational questions in an equality perspective. (lu.se)
  • Omolara Uwemedimo, the Thomases' eldest daughter and the baby Akingbade Thomas was carrying at the time she received government aid, is now a 36-year-old pediatrician who treats poor children in New York. (medscape.com)
  • Still, we have a lot of people -- 45 percent -- who are willing to share data if it will benefit society,' he says, 'but it has to be anonymized. (engadget.com)
  • Most of terrorism's recruits are school dropout or unemployed people… Terrorists are often people living in margin of society. (worldcoalition.org)
  • They are part of the established and often indisputable legal relational rationales and structures in welfare law and society. (lu.se)
  • Quick to use consumer psychology to turn a buck, a whole industry arose to provide faster-but vastly more expensive-electronic money transfers to incarcerated people. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Many of the clients who do receive assistance actually need a higher level of service than the program can provide, due to its limited resources. (americanbar.org)
  • The burden of proving that the spouse does not de facto provide for her, risks being too heavy - taking also into consideration the lack of solid free legal aid systems. (lu.se)
  • Having a mental disorder and more of it over time to achieve the same level of also increases the chances that a person will use "high" (tolerance), or if they suffer from unpleasant drugs. (who.int)
  • Because they do not have the necessary resources to bribe police officers, judges and prosecutors, people from poor economic background are more likely to be sentenced to death. (worldcoalition.org)
  • The question is coming before the courts more frequently, and recent legal decisions show judges may be altering their views on the subject. (medscape.com)
  • The British Government must ensure that people have legal rights of redress against British companies such as Shell who profit from pollution and damaging communities. (foei.org)
  • Removing this barrier is particularly important for Black communities - Legal Aid Justice Center has found that "African American people make up only twenty percent (20%) of Virginia's population, but receive nearly half of the orders of suspension for unpaid court debt. (thecommonwealthinstitute.org)
  • Hearing his words, I felt for the first time, believed for the first time, in the promise of equality for all-even for people like me. (nclrights.org)
  • Joining forces with other groups to engage in fundraising is a task most people resent. (shelterforce.org)
  • Groups playing music, people singing, artists etc, We spent a few minutes just listening to the piano player under the arch. (tripadvisor.ca)
  • We are three weeks after the day food distribution was shut down when the Raleigh Police Department threatened to arrest multiple people, from multiple groups, over an entire day. (redletterchristians.org)
  • Lambda Legal's survey charted this trend: between 20 to 40 percent of LGBT respondents reported verbal harassment or hostile attitudes, with minority, low-income, and HIV-positive groups reporting higher rates of issues. (vox.com)
  • During Covid-19, and other situations understood as emergencies, arguments for prioritising between the different groups of people and needs are made using different legal models of legitimation. (lu.se)
  • The study looked at a sample of 32,750 high school students. (zmescience.com)
  • Ms. Gordon, 63, had qualified for TennCare until her grandson, who had been in her custody, graduated from high school last spring. (theincidentaleconomist.com)
  • When I was a senior in high school, our teacher assigned us to read the autobiography of Malcolm X. As I read that, it became clear to me that racism wasn't just something that bigoted white people did in the South. (lu.se)
  • The government could factor in use of public benefits, including food aid, home heating assistance, subsidies for health insurance premiums, and government pre-school programs, when deciding if a person is likely to become a "public charge. (medscape.com)
  • As a child growing up in Brooklyn and Queens, Uwemedimo excelled academically, graduated from high school at age 15 and won a scholarship to cover her undergraduate and medical school tuition. (medscape.com)
  • Proven track record in civil matters at High Court level. (legal-aid.co.za)
  • This means that your alcohol level is above the legal limit. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Hospital emergency staff may use a blood alcohol test to check for this life-threatening condition that can happen if blood alcohol level gets very high after drinking large amounts of alcohol. (medlineplus.gov)
  • One of the things Javier likes most about the United States is that we have rules that are fairly enforced, unlike in Mexico, where a poor man lives at the whim of corrupt officials. (chronicle.com)
  • Corrupt officials turn a blind eye to the growing illicit domestic sex trade, and commerical surrogacy is legal. (womensforumaustralia.org)
  • As people in prison are increasingly expected to pay for everyday costs (food, hygiene items, correspondence, etc.), the mechanics of how people send money to incarcerated people assumes heightened importance. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • The failure of states to meet their legal obligations to address gendered violence under, for example, the Istanbul Convention, contributes to this situation and fails to ensure the rights and freedoms of women. (lu.se)
  • however, there were concerns over the use of force by law enforcement, legal proceedings and discrimination. (wikipedia.org)
  • With enforcement of Glasgow's Low Emission Zone (LEZ) just one month away, people are being urged to know its requirements and to plan ahead. (glasgow.gov.uk)
  • In run-ins with law enforcement, LGBT people and those living with HIV tend to have considerably more difficulty with police than the overall population - especially if they're young, black, and poor. (vox.com)
  • The Columbia University report suggests that the discrimination creates a sense of distrust in law enforcement within the LGBT community, which can further perpetuate crime and violence if people are unwilling to turn to police to solve potentially dangerous conflicts. (vox.com)
  • The South African government tends to focus primarily on the quality of higher education. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a legal assault filed in a World Bank trade court, Pacific Rim is now demanding $315 million in compensation payments from the Salvadoran government, an amount equal to one third of the country's annual education budget. (countercurrents.org)
  • All of my siblings have higher education degrees. (nclrights.org)
  • More than 100 million people have elevated IOP. (medscape.com)
  • about 2.4 million people develop POAG each year. (medscape.com)