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Organised crime and the efforts to combat it: A concern for public health, Lucy Reynolds & Martin McKee, Globalization and Health, Globalization and Health 2010, 6:21doi:10.1186/1744-8603-6-21 “This paper considers the public health impacts of the income-generating activities of organised crime. These range from the traditional vice activities of running prostitution and supplying narcotics, to the …
EPIC: December 10 marks the United Nation’s annual International Human Rights Day, which celebrates the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration sets forth universal privacy rights in Article 12 and rights to freedom of expression in Article 19. The Declaration’s importance and influence is recognized in the U.S. State Department’s annual …
Changes in Airport Passenger Screening Technologies and Procedures: Frequently Asked Questions, Bart Elias, Specialist in Aviation Policy, November 23, 2010 “During 2010, TSA introduced whole body imaging (WBI) systems at airport checkpoints around the United States. Previously, the systems were used only on a trial basis at a small number of airports. They are now …
US Courts: “A recently published study on federal death penalty cases offers updated findings on the cost, quality, and availability of defense representation. Among the findings: The median cost of a case in which the Attorney General authorized seeking the death penalty was nearly eight times greater than the cost of a case that was …
Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa and the Human Rights Documentation Systems – “Established by the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights which came into force on 21 October 1986 after its adoption in Nairobi (Kenya) in 1981 by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African …
Report of the Comprehensive Review of the Issues Associated with a Repeal of Dont Ask, Dont Tell, Department of Defense, November 30, 2010 “We conclude that, while a repeal of Dont Ask, Dont Tell will likely, in the short term, bring about some limited and isolated disruption to unit cohesion and retention, we do not …
New York Review of Books, On the Death Sentence, John Paul Stevens’ review of Peculiar Institution: Americas Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition, by David Garland “Garlands argument is historical and contemporary. Chapters 26 situate the modern American death penalty within US and European histories of capital punishment. On both continents, capital punishment has …
LLRX.com – Actual Innocence and Freestanding Claims for Relief: Ken Strutin has written extensively for LLRX.com on criminal law issues. He argues that false confessions, bad eyewitness identifications, and faulty forensics, among other problems, have shown that seemingly iron clad adjudications can reach the wrong result. A ‘guilty’ verdict only indicates that the government has …
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports via CNET, Your risks and rights with TSA’s ‘enhanced’ screening (FAQ).
Google: “..were releasing a white paper, Enabling Trade in the Era of Information Technologies: Breaking Down Barriers to the Free Flow of Information, that explores the ways that governments impose limits on the free flow of information online. Its pretty wonky stuff, but the premise is simple: In addition to infringing human rights, governments that …
EPIC: “A new poll by Zogby International finds that 61% of Americans polled between Nov. 19 and Nov. 22 oppose the use of full body scans and TSA pat downs. Of those polled, 52% believe the enhanced security measures will not prevent terrorist activity, almost half (48%) say it is a violation of privacy rights, …
News release: “Today, the FBI released 2009 statistics which indicated that 6,604 criminal incidents involving 7,789 offenses were reported as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability. Hate Crime Statistics, 2009, published by the FBIs Uniform Crime Reporting Program, includes data from hate crime …
