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News release: “Tactics of the Taliban and other Anti-Government Elements (AGEs) are behind a 31 per cent increase in conflict-related Afghan civilian casualties in the first six months of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said today in releasing its 2010 Mid-Year Report on Protection …
U.S. Department of Justice The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction, A Report to Congress, August 2010 “In the broadest terms, the goal of this National Strategy is to prevent child sexual exploitation from occurring in the first place, in order to protect every childs opportunity and right to have a childhood that …
Defining Internet Freedom – eJournal – U.S. Department of State, July 2010 “The first part of this journal addresses the difficulty agreeing on a universally applicable definition of Internet freedom. Nations impose many different kinds of restrictions. Some represent the efforts of authoritarian regimes to repress their opponents, but others instead reflect diverse political traditions …
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) Immigration study: “Just released figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), however, show that during the first nine months of FY 2010, 279,035 non-U.S. citizens were removed* from the country as a result of ICE enforcement. This number is ten (10) percent more than the same period during FY 2008 …
Rough justice in America – Too many laws, too many prisoners- Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little ,li>”Justice is harsher in America than in any other rich country. Between 2.3m and 2.4m Americans are behind bars, roughly one in every 100 adults. If those on parole or …
Annual Report on the Federal Work Force Fiscal Year 2009. From the Executive Summary: In FY 2009, there were almost 2.8 million women and men employed by the federal government across the country and around the world. 55.9% were men and 44.1% were women; after a slow but steady increase, the participation rate for women …
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, via EPIC: “On July 20, 2010, the Department of Homeland Security announced a substantial change in the deployment of body scanners in US airports. According to the DHS Secretary, the devices, which had once been part of a pilot program …
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, today, EPIC filed a reply in its case against the Department of Homeland Security, EPIC v. DHS,10-1157. EPIC had previously filed a petition and motion for emergency stay, asking the court to suspend the use of the machines. EPIC argued …
News release: “House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. D-Mich.) today released the transcript of the Committees interview of Judge Jay Bybee, former assistant attorney general for the Justice Departments Office of Legal Counsel during the administration of President George W. Bush and author of two of the Bush administrations most infamous “torture memos.” “This …
News release: “The Department of Justice challenged the state of Arizonas recently passed immigration law, S.B. 1070, in federal court today. In a brief filed in the District of Arizona, the Department said S.B. 1070 unconstitutionally interferes with the federal governments authority to set and enforce immigration policy, explaining that the Constitution and federal law …
Gender Equality Universally Embraced, But Inequalities Acknowledged, released July 1, 2010 “Fifteen years after the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Womens Beijing Platform for Action proclaimed that shared power and responsibility should be established between women and men at home, in the workplace and in the wider national and international communities, people around the …
Prisoners at Yearend 2009 – Advance Counts, Heather C. West, June 23, 2010. NCJ 230189 “Presents data on prisoners under jurisdiction of federal or state correctional authorities on December 31, 2009, collected from the National Prisoner Statistics series. This report compares changes in the prison population during 2009 to changes from yearend 2000 through yearend …
