• In an interactive exchange with senior jurists, general counsel, parliamentarians, leading practitioners, renowned law professors and heads of legal institutes, laureates of the biodiversity law and governance global leadership awards and other distinguished experts, this roundtable will highlight recent trends and innovations in biodiversity, considering how law and governance can accelerate ambition and implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. (lu.se)
  • It also requires collaborating with international donors, environmental lawyers, journalists and human rights organisations to maximise the impact of our work. (edo.org.au)
  • The 2023 cohort consists of lawyers who display a passion for justice, human rights advocacy, and societal equity, and are all influencing standards and attitudes with their outstanding professional abilities. (canadianlawyermag.com)
  • In our London office, Sidley is part of the Interlaw Diversity Associate Mentoring Program which pairs Sidley mid-level LGBTQ+ lawyers with senior in-house counsel. (sidley.com)
  • Women's rights are human rights, and the core values that underlie our mission show Lawyers Club fights for all of us. (klinedinstlaw.com)
  • This Australian Lawyers for Human Rights webinar, moderated by international human rights barrister, Madeleine Bridgett , offers attendees a wonderful opportunity to be a part of an inspiring, educative and entertaining conversation with some of Australia's most eminent legal minds. (trybooking.com)
  • In 1993 Kate founded Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR). (trybooking.com)
  • Former Head of Department Isabel Schoultz leads a time-sensitive research project examining strategies between prosecutors, lawyers, and counsels for the injured party in the trial against Orrön (formerly Lundin Energy, among others). (lu.se)
  • The Trump administration is reportedly considering declaring several international nonprofits, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, as anti-Semitic. (aclu.org)
  • The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Amnesty International, Bytes for All, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, the Legal Resources Centre (South Africa), Liberty and Privacy International. (edri.org)
  • Amnesty International is a human rights organization and global movement of more than 10 million people in over 150 countries and territories who campaign for human rights. (amnesty.ca)
  • The IHRP, in conjunction with international and national human rights organizations - including Amnesty International, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and Justice for Children and Youth - delivered a joint submission to the UN today stating that immigration detainees, particularly children and non-citizens with mental health conditions, continue to suffer significant human rights violations. (amnesty.ca)
  • Tom Parker, Amnesty International USA's Policy Director for Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Human Rights, said: "Physicians for Human Rights' report makes it clear that, if nothing else, mental health professionals on the US government payroll provided 'material support' to torture. (phrtorturepapers.org)
  • Cathryn Oakley, state legislative director and senior counsel for the Human Rights Campaign, said no other governor has taken the same action as Abbott. (clickondetroit.com)
  • This year is, I think, a really big wakeup call," said Cathryn Oakley, state legislative director and senior counsel for the Human Rights Campaign, noting that allies need to step up their fight against these efforts. (cnn.com)
  • Governor Kelly did the right thing," Cathryn Oakley, the Human Rights Campaign's state legislative director and senior counsel, said in a press release. (advocate.com)
  • Prasow then moved to the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel, Office of Military Commissions, United States Department of Defense. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here she served as Assistant Defense Counsel for Salim Ahmed Hamdan's case before a Guantanamo military commission. (wikipedia.org)
  • So far the al-Nashiri hearings have been consumed by matters such as whether the CIA is eavesdropping on confidential attorney-client communications at the Guantanamo prison camp, the security of the computer system used by defense counsel there, and the mental health of the defendant. (huffpost.com)
  • On Thursday, Scott Parr, Chief of the Office of Military Commissions IT services,testified that for about four months, no one backed up the computer servers used by defense counsel. (huffpost.com)
  • Defense counsel have been requesting a new secure computer system since April, when the chief defense counsel told them to they stop using the Defense Department's system. (huffpost.com)
  • Already in 2022, more than 300 anti-LGBTQ bills are pending across state legislatures, according to the pro-LGBTQ Human Rights Campaign. (cnn.com)
  • The real issue is that many people rely on end-to-end encryption to stay safe and secure , from people facing persecution for their identities to human rights activists. (hrw.org)
  • This is precisely why Human Rights Watch joined digital rights groups, civil society advocates, and human rights activists worldwide to call on Facebook to protect end-to-end encryption by default and make it accessible to human rights defenders and everyday users alike. (hrw.org)
  • By educating the public about surveillance issues, digital rights activists can ensure voters understand where their elected leaders stand on defending our privacy and Constitutional rights. (netrootsnation.org)
  • Black activists from the U.S. saw in the developing human rights idea a strategic opportunity to press the international community to take up the interrelated issues of racial oppression and colonialism. (blackagendareport.com)
  • The organized agitation of Black activists and petitions to the newly created United Nations from the National Negro Congress (NNC), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and Civil Rights Congress (CRC) with its famous document "We Charge Genocide," had a major impact on the development and evolution of the human rights framework. (blackagendareport.com)
  • Indian journalists and women's rights activists have banded together with an outpouring of support to make sure Ramani has the resources she'll need to take on the legal battle. (fpif.org)
  • In at least seven states, grassroots activists have quietly built coalitions necessary to enact pro-immigrant rights laws, many of which will limit the Trump administration's ability to carry out its threats to deport millions. (nationofchange.org)
  • The Human Rights Campaign uses cookies to improve your site experience. (hrc.org)
  • Raleigh, North Carolina - Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) - the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization - condemned the North Carolina General Assembly for passing House Bill 5741 and Senate Bill 631 through their respective chambers. (hrc.org)
  • And a poll conducted by the Human Rights Campaign & Hart Research Group revealed that, with respect to transgender youth participation in sports, the public's strong inclination is on the side of fairness and equality for transgender student athletes. (hrc.org)
  • A recently launched campaign in Europe calls on individuals to "vote for [their] digital rights. (netrootsnation.org)
  • Jefferson City, Missouri - Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) - the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization - condemned Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey for issuing a discriminatory gender-affirming care rule. (hrc.org)
  • The Human Rights Campaign condemns these regulations in the strongest possible terms and calls on the Missouri Attorney General to immediately rescind them. (hrc.org)
  • Norris's Senior Counsel was fellow member of the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform, Mary Robinson. (pocketmags.com)
  • Reverend Richard L. Killmer, Executive Director of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, stated, "The world recognized after World War II that illegal experiments on human beings go even beyond torture in defiling and breaking human beings. (phrtorturepapers.org)
  • The National Religious Campaign Against Torture is joining the complaint asking the federal Office for Human Research Protections to investigate human experimentation on detainees by the CIA and is also continuing its call for a Commission of Inquiry to investigate ALL torture practices by the U.S. government since 9/11 and to recommend the needed safeguards to assure that U.S. sponsored torture will never happen again. (phrtorturepapers.org)
  • Your tax deductible gift can help stop human rights violations and save lives around the world. (hrw.org)
  • In this situation, the ICJ advisory opinion could have significant implications, including for any findings of violations of international human rights law, international humanitarian law , and international criminal law. (hrw.org)
  • A Pakistan submission should urge the court to broadly assess the legal consequences of the 56-year-old occupation, including violations of core principles of international law, discriminatory laws, policies and practices of successive Israeli governments, and the consequences of these for international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law. (hrw.org)
  • Accountability Counsel is seeking an experienced advocate based in the Asia-Pacific region to support its Communities program, which works to ensure that communities can access justice for human rights and environmental violations using accountability offices tied to international finance. (accountabilitycounsel.org)
  • As states increasingly use detention as a means of controlling migration flows, sexual minority migrants find themselves in detention facilities where they may face multiple violations of their human rights. (fmreview.org)
  • Canada's renewed efforts to become a global leader as a multicultural safe haven for refugees and migrants should be applauded, but it needs to move quickly to address the serious human rights violations of some of the most vulnerable members of our society," said Samer Muscati, director of the IHRP. (amnesty.ca)
  • OHRP is mandated by federal regulations known as "the Common Rule" to investigate complaints alleging violations of ethics, regulations, and statutes governing human subject research that is funded or conducted by the US government. (phrtorturepapers.org)
  • Advocates for consumers, patients, and workers came together this week to warn against a sweeping and unprecedented proposal in Congress that would use the COVID-19 crisis as an excuse to grant corporations broad immunity against violations of workplace safety guidelines as well as civil and legal rights. (chn.org)
  • Subsequently, Prasow became a senior counsel with the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program at Human Rights Watch. (wikipedia.org)
  • In that capacity Prasow investigates and analyzes U.S. counterterrorism policies and practices, and leads advocacy efforts urging the U.S. to implement policies that respect international standards of human rights. (wikipedia.org)
  • Prasow later joined Human Rights Watch as senior counsel in their Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tom has acted as sole counsel in both the senior courts and tribunals. (matrixlaw.co.uk)
  • She has acted in many landmark human rights cases before the European Court of Human Rights, United Nations bodies and other international tribunals. (ucd.ie)
  • In 2011, she was appointed counsel to the Chief of the Commission and Tribunals, the Honourable D. Blair Mason, who was later succeeded by Robert Philp, Q.C. Justice Ashcroft is a frequent speaker at legal education seminars and conferences. (canada.ca)
  • She has taught at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law, and was instrumental in developing pro bono legal initiatives to provide individuals with representation before human rights tribunals. (canada.ca)
  • Since our founding in 2009, our team has partnered with communities and advocates from 50 countries to defend their rights, demand justice, and achieve historic victories. (accountabilitycounsel.org)
  • Ensuring that communities and local and regional advocates know how to trace international financing and use accountability offices to seek accountability and remedy for human rights and environmental abuses. (accountabilitycounsel.org)
  • The DMP pairs all diverse associates with senior partners in their practice areas for skill-building work assignments, direct feedback, career coaching, and client-relationship development. (sidley.com)
  • Tom's practice spans across a variety of areas including equality and human rights, employment, public and constitutional, education and commercial law. (matrixlaw.co.uk)
  • Building on documentation from the ACLU and Human Rights Watch , as well as groups such as Haitian Bridge Alliance and the Black Alliance for Immigrant Justice , members condemned "the persistence of the practice of racial profiling by law enforcement officials, including from the Customs and Border Protection and the Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE). (aclu-wi.org)
  • The 287(g) program, which taps more than 700 officers at 142 state and local law enforcement agencies around the country to help ICE identify, detain, and deport immigrants inside the United States, is inextricably tied to racial profiling, a practice that violates the Constitution and human rights law. (aclu-wi.org)
  • It promises to be a fantastic evening for anyone interested in the practice, promotion and protection of human rights in Australia. (trybooking.com)
  • Since 2014, the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House has worked to overcome the obstacles by developing guidance on how to create the right environment and achieve good practice for sharing data for public health action. (cdc.gov)
  • He was called to the Bar in 1999 and appointed Senior Counsel in 2016. (ucd.ie)
  • Every weekday, get the world's top human rights news, explored and explained by Andrew Stroehlein. (hrw.org)
  • Advising one of the world's best-known luxury department stores on transgender rights and sex discrimination in a goods and services context. (matrixlaw.co.uk)
  • Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist who has reported extensively on issues related to migration, conflict, human rights and humanitarian crises for many of the world's leading news publishers. (ucd.ie)
  • In 1998, he was named Laurette of the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education. (trybooking.com)
  • She began her legal career in civil litigation, with a focus on family law, before moving to the Alberta Human Rights Commission in 1998. (canada.ca)
  • The revisions require EPFIs and their clients to place greater emphasis on assessing the potential impacts projects may have on human rights, Indigenous peoples, and climate change as a condition for project finance. (blg.com)
  • How best to enhance interlinkages of biodiversity treaties with human rights, climate change, natural resources, oceans, and trade, investment and finance regimes? (lu.se)
  • You have a degree in a related field, such as law, development studies, international finance, or human rights and at least seven (7) years advocacy experience in a relevant field ( e.g. human rights, environmental law, environmental and social justice campaigns, international development, corporate accountability, community organizing). (accountabilitycounsel.org)
  • Rights groups reacted with dismay Tuesday at the International Criminal Court's decision to end its trial against Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto, saying it left victims without justice and showed the limits of pursuing cases against powerful individuals. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Human Rights Watch Senior International Justice Counsel Elizabeth Evenson called the ruling a "hugely disappointing decision. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Anthony Dworkin, a specialist on human rights and international justice at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said the ruling underscored the court's difficulty in bringing powerful figures to justice - and in securing the cooperation of participating states. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Param-Preet Singh, senior international justice counsel, Human Rights Watch. (euronews.com)
  • But on Saturday, Feb. 21, Regent University's Center for Global Justice, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law along with the Regent Journal of Global Justice and Public Policy, hosted the fourth annual Global Justice Symposium: Human Rights and the Sexualization of Culture. (regent.edu)
  • Learn more about Regent University's School of Law and the Center for Global Justice, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law . (regent.edu)
  • Immigrant rights victories are also building on the strength of the criminal justice reform movement. (nationofchange.org)
  • We call upon the Office of Human Research Protections, the Justice Department, and professional associations to investigate and sanction those found to have participated in this illegal and unethical research. (phrtorturepapers.org)
  • With Subramanium, he handled some "very important criminal cases" which gave him a lot of exposure of trial work, including on the 2001 Parliament attack, and working with the 1999 Justice JS Verma commission when Verma was chairman of the National Human Rights Commission. (legallyindia.com)
  • On Tuesday, 18 independent human rights experts who serve on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued a scathing report on the U.S. government's racial justice record. (aclu-wi.org)
  • Janice R. Ashcroft, Q.C., Senior Legal Counsel with the Alberta Human Rights Commission, is appointed a justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta in Calgary. (canada.ca)
  • In her role as director's counsel at the Commission, Justice Ashcroft has appeared at all levels of court, litigating numerous cases affecting the human rights of Albertans and involving significant administrative law issues. (canada.ca)
  • I'll call to However, it does provide for mandatory minimum terms of order meeting number eight of the Standing Committee on Justice imprisonment for individuals who have been convicted of this and Human Rights. (who.int)
  • Nadia previously served as the 2012 Bill of Rights Defense Committee Legal Fellow where they worked with grassroots groups to restrict the reach of overbroad national security policies. (netrootsnation.org)
  • She is a Senior Fellow of the Faculty of Law, Monash University. (trybooking.com)
  • The ruling goes further than the European Court of Human Rights' 2018 ruling, by providing for new and stronger safeguards, adding a new requirement of prior independent or judicial authorisation for bulk interception. (edri.org)
  • In the spring of 2018, Canada will under go its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, in which UN Member States will review past Canadian human rights pledges, and raise new concerns. (amnesty.ca)
  • Andre Joachim is photographed in his counseling office in North Aurora on Aug. 28, 2018. (chicagotribune.com)
  • It should make clear that, so long as Israeli authorities continue to occupy Palestinian territory, they are required to ensure that Palestinians living under occupation have full protection of the rights guaranteed to everyone under international human rights law, using as a benchmark the rights they grant Israeli citizens, as well as protections they are owed under international humanitarian law. (hrw.org)
  • A broad coalition of human rights, health, and religious groups filed a formal complaint today with the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) against the Central Intelligence Agency. (phrtorturepapers.org)
  • OHRP has a reputation for enforcing strict adherence to human research protections, which it must bring to bear against any CIA malfeasance that it uncovers. (phrtorturepapers.org)
  • The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, Kate Eastman AM SC and Julian Burnside AO QC , as they share stories of their journey in the law and their experiences in advocating for human rights protections. (trybooking.com)
  • The Attorney General is dangerously politicizing medical decisions that should be left to individuals and their doctors, taking away the right of transgender people of all ages to make decisions about their own health care and surrendering to anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups even if it means endangering the lives of Missourians. (hrc.org)
  • The New York office hosted a program and panel on the "Legal Developments in Transgender Rights. (sidley.com)
  • Abbott, has ordered the state's child welfare agency to investigate reports of gender-confirming care for kids as "child abuse" in a directive that opponents say is a first by any governor over GOP efforts to restrict transgender rights. (clickondetroit.com)
  • MATERIALS AND METHODS: A pacing lead was implanted in the right ventricle in canines (n = 13) and the left anterior descending artery was occluded in two locations for 2 h and subsequently released to create an ischemia-reperfusion injury. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the 10 dogs that survived the first 48 h following the initial study, a terminal study was conducted 4-7 d later and VT was induced using premature stimulation or burst pacing through the right ventricle lead. (bvsalud.org)
  • Applying the law to its many years of research on Israel's treatment of Palestinians, Human Rights Watch in an April 2021 report, 'A Threshold Crossed', found that Israeli authorities were committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians. (hrw.org)
  • EP IV imposes standards that go beyond current Canadian legal obligations in relation to assessing impacts on human rights and Indigenous peoples. (blg.com)
  • On Indigenous peoples, EP IV will require EPFIs and clients to operate according to concept of free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC), the international standard for consultation with Indigenous populations pursuant to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. (blg.com)
  • Enhanced recognition of Indigenous rights is a major feature of EP IV. (blg.com)
  • Our International Program operates at the critical intersection of indigenous rights, human rights and environmental protection. (edo.org.au)
  • Such solitary confinement is held by international human rights bodies as amounting to torture, inhuman or degrading treatment when it deprives detainees of meaningful access to detention centre services or, although it is widely termed 'non-punitive isolation', is tantamount to conditions of penal solitary confinement. (fmreview.org)
  • Her work has included representing Yasidi women trafficked into Syria, David Hicks during his time in Guantanamo Bay, asylum seekers, women experiencing sexual violence, sexual harassment and discrimination, children with disabilities seeking access to education, war crimes investigations, Optional Protocol complaints to UN Human Rights bodies, Modern Slavery, preparing submissions and advice for human rights NGOs and community legal centres. (trybooking.com)
  • But despite its public pledges to protect the rights of women and girls, when faced with allegations against one of its ministers, the government has not spoken publicly on the case. (fpif.org)
  • For her part, Evenson of Human Rights Watch believes the court needs to draw some key lessons: "stronger investigations, stronger witness protection programs, and also stronger and more consistent support from the international community. (globalsecurity.org)
  • And Connecticut's governor just signed into law a measure to strengthen the state's Trust Act , which is designed to protect due process rights of immigrants by requiring a judicial order to detain an individual for ICE. (nationofchange.org)
  • Toronto, October 5, 2017 - A United Nations review of Canada's human rights record should urge Canada to make concrete commitments to meaningfully address its treatment of vulnerable persons in immigration detention, the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law (IHRP) said today. (amnesty.ca)
  • Subsequently, the Indian women's rights movement championed a strong law governing workplace sexual harassment in 2013. (fpif.org)
  • The UNGPs require businesses not to cause, contribute to, or be directly linked to human rights abuses. (blg.com)
  • Providing loans to support projects that lead to severe adverse human rights abuses contravenes the UNGPs. (blg.com)
  • Human rights abuses are happening right now - start a monthly gift today. (hrw.org)
  • This conclusion, based on documentation of an overarching government policy to maintain the domination of Jewish Israelis over Palestinians and coupled with grave abuses against Palestinians living in the occupied territory, including East Jerusalem, is shared by Palestinian, Israeli and other international human rights groups. (hrw.org)
  • Pakistan has an important opportunity to support Palestinian rights at the World Court and in doing so to advance key principles of international law that protect human rights globally. (hrw.org)
  • By equating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, Pompeo aims to suppress and chill legitimate advocacy in support of Palestinian human rights. (aclu.org)
  • Intellectual property law creates exclusionary rights based on the results of human intellectual activities. (lesi.org)
  • However, many commentators have expressed their concerns about whether the traditional intellectual property systems could properly protect human intellectual works in the evolving era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. (lesi.org)
  • Dr Michael O'Flaherty is Director of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, has served as Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee and head of a number of UN Human Rights Field Operations. (ucd.ie)
  • Debbie Berkowitz, Safety and Health Program Director at NELP, spent six years as a senior official at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) under the Obama Administration. (chn.org)
  • Christine Sabol is the Senior Director for Medical Operations and Regulations. (cdc.gov)
  • The idea of human rights is premised on the position that human beings come into society with the expectation that the society they are born into will recognize their inherent dignity. (blackagendareport.com)
  • The liberal bourgeois revolution emerged while Europe was still involved in a violent assault on the peoples of the Americas and an inhumane trade in human beings and their super-exploitation. (blackagendareport.com)
  • The contradiction of asserting the inherent dignity and value of the human with inalienable rights while simultaneously committing genocide, raping, murdering and enslaving millions simply required a categorical conversion in relationship to those human beings. (blackagendareport.com)
  • Stated simply, those human beings were assigned to the category of the non-human. (blackagendareport.com)
  • It should also encourage the court to take stock of the increasingly transparent reality that Israeli authorities methodologically privilege Jewish Israelis, who are governed under the same body of laws with the same rights and privileges wherever they live, while systematically discriminating against Palestinians wherever they live. (hrw.org)
  • Kate has 30 years experience in dispute resolution and advocacy in a wide range of employment disputes, all aspects of discrimination law (employment, services, education, transport and media), human rights (international and Australian), public law and health law. (trybooking.com)
  • While Krishnan's father was a lawyer practicing in Ooty, Krishnan said that when he graduated in 1993, he was offered a job under senior counsel Santosh Hegde, whom he had interned with while at college. (legallyindia.com)
  • He is a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's panel of junior counsel and is ranked in Chambers and Partners. (matrixlaw.co.uk)
  • Tom has extensive experience across a broad range of equality, discrimination and human rights law matters. (matrixlaw.co.uk)
  • Tom is currently acting as counsel to the Labour Party in relation to internal complaints of antisemitism, and the EHRC's investigation under section 20 Equality Act 2006. (matrixlaw.co.uk)
  • Tom is a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's panel of junior counsel and has advised the Government Equalities Office on the Equality Act 2010. (matrixlaw.co.uk)
  • CBSA's treatment of non-citizens with mental health conditions is in breach of Canada's international human rights obligations, because it is discriminatory, it constitutes indefinite and arbitrary detention, it is cruel and inhuman, and it violates the right to health. (amnesty.ca)
  • Congress should continue to defer to the existing process for establishing DOT drug tests by allowing scientists at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to determine accurate, objective, non-discriminatory specimen standards for conducting hair drug tests. (civilrights.org)
  • On behalf of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the rights of all persons in the United States, we urge you, as a conferee of the surface transportation reauthorization legislation, to ensure that the nation's most vulnerable communities are not forgotten in the bill. (civilrights.org)
  • OHRP has a legal responsibility to investigate these disturbing new allegations about the CIA and possible illegal human experimentation on detainees, despite the refusal by Langely and the White House to do so," stated Nathaniel Raymond, lead author of the Physicians for Human Rights report. (phrtorturepapers.org)
  • Klinedinst PC is the go-to firm for clients looking for litigation and trial experience, sophisticated transactional advice, and other solution-oriented legal counsel. (klinedinstlaw.com)
  • He is known for his strong opposition to the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, and has provided legal counsel in a wide variety of high-profile cases. (trybooking.com)
  • She joins UCD Sutherland School of Law with the project RIGHTS TO UNITE, which develops a new socio-legal theory of European integration, questioning the extent to which the Union can rely on the integrative capacity of its law in its Member States and neighbouring countries. (ucd.ie)
  • Wendy has worked with ‎senior counsel to provide legal analysis and verify compliance with competition and consumer protection ‎regulations that are applicable to various industry sectors. (dlapiper.com)
  • Julian Burnside is well known for his work as a barrister in Australia, as well as a human rights and refugee advocate, and author. (trybooking.com)
  • Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC is a prominent human rights lawyer who practises as a barrister with Doughty Street Chambers in London. (ucd.ie)
  • Attendees at the Chicago Associate Diversity Council panel discussion on the Supreme Court case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission . (sidley.com)
  • What is clear is that politicians should not be tearing apart loving families - and sending their kids into the foster care system - when parents provide recommended medical care that they believe is in the best interest of their child," said Kate Murphy, the senior policy associate for child protection at Texans Care for Children. (clickondetroit.com)
  • Instead, the department chose Anna Lundberg, Associate Professor of Human Rights and Professor of Sociology of Law. (lu.se)
  • The American Civil Liberties Union is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America. (aclu.org)
  • She's right that discrimination is bad for business, bad for Kansas, and bad for this nation. (advocate.com)
  • The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has today ruled that UK mass surveillance laws violate the rights to privacy and freedom of expression . (edri.org)
  • The Irish courts ruled against Norris, and so he took his case to the European Court of Human Rights, charging that Ireland's criminalisation of homosexual acts between consenting adult men was in breach of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. (pocketmags.com)
  • At Access, Amie leads projects on digital due process and responds to threats at the intersection of human rights and communications surveillance. (netrootsnation.org)
  • I was trained to do this by some of the people I've worked closely with at the Ipperwash Inquiry," she explains, who served as that inquiry's assistant commission counsel. (canadianlawyermag.com)
  • It also ensured that the first human rights document produced by the UN Human Rights Commission under the leadership of Elenore Roosevelt would be a mere declaration of principles without any legally binding obligations so as to placate Southern U.S. Senators who were afraid of the possible intervention of this body to address the U.S. apartheid system. (blackagendareport.com)
  • and Jeffery Ventrella, senior counsel/senior vice-president of strategic training for the Alliance Defending Freedom. (regent.edu)
  • Overview of Geriatric Care Every 4 years, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updates its strategic plan and defines its mission and goals. (msdmanuals.com)
  • 5 years (Senior Solicitor) or 8 years (Special Counsel) post admission litigation experience, with at least 2 years practicing in environmental law, human rights law, administrative law, civil enforcement and/or criminal enforcement. (edo.org.au)
  • While ICE's failure to track 287(g)-related arrests undermines our efforts to gain a full picture of the program, we know from news reports, civil rights litigation, and testimonials that the racial profiling practices of state and local law enforcement officers are putting disproportionate numbers of Black and Brown immigrants into the deportation pipeline. (aclu-wi.org)
  • When you look at the huge amounts of money spent on gay rights campaigns around the world and see what was achieved in Ireland with such little resources, we should be very grateful to the founders of GLEN and to those who kept going year after year to bring in the right law regarding gay sex. (pocketmags.com)
  • It's time that Canada lives up to its human rights reputation by ending the needless detention of children and migrants with mental health conditions when alternatives already exist. (amnesty.ca)
  • Canadian financial institutions will soon be mandated to assess the human rights consequences associated with their project finance loans. (blg.com)
  • Stephen Bright is senior counsel for the Southern Center for Human Rights. (wglt.org)
  • Mr. STEPHEN BRIGHT (Senior Counsel, Southern Center for Human Rights): The case, really, just leaves things as they are. (wglt.org)
  • It may resemble a typical senior citizens' center, which provides care to older people with various psychosocial needs, or a mental health center, which provides care to older people with dementia or psychiatric disorders. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Wikisource has original text related to this article: U.S. v. Hamdan - Special Request for Relief - Supplement Andrea J. Prasow is an American attorney and global human rights advocate. (wikipedia.org)
  • Position: Assistant Attorney General - Civil Rights Division, Seattle - Persons requiring reasonable accommodation in the application. (learn4good.com)
  • The CIA has denied the allegations and has refused to investigate evidence of experimentation presented by Physicians for Human Rights in a report entitled Experiments in Torture: Evidence of Human Subject Research and Experimentation in the "Enhanced" Interrogation Program. (phrtorturepapers.org)
  • It advocated for and won the battle to bifurcate human rights into "civil and political rights," and "Economic, social and cultural rights" (ESCR). (blackagendareport.com)