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Follow up to previous posting sentencing guidelines, “U.S. Sentencing Commission has published the results of the first-ever survey of federal trial judges to elicit their views about federal sentencing under the advisory guidelines system in effect since 2005. The survey, among many other findings, indicates that 62 percent of the responding judges believe that mandatory …
News release: “A report released by UN Office on Drugs and Crime shows how organized crime has globalized and turned into one of the world’s foremost economic and armed powers. The Globalization of Crime: A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment, released at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York, looks at major trafficking flows …
Rand – Security at what cost? Quantifying trade-offs across liberty, privacy and security, by Neil Robinson, Dimitris Potoglou, Chong Woo Kim, Peter Burge, Richard Warnes “The balance between liberty, privacy and security is often polarised around concerns for civil liberties and public safety. To balance these concerns, policymakers need to consider the economic and social …
News release: “The 10th annual Trafficking in Persons Report, June 2010, outlines the continuing challenges across the globe, including in the United States. The Report, for the first time, includes a ranking of the United States based on the same standards to which we hold other countries. The United States takes its first-ever ranking not …
For all of us who have been engaged in animal rights issues for many decades, this cover article, The Animal-Cruelty Syndrome, is a vivid and painful reminder how little has changed, and how much work we will always have before us. “In addition to a growing sensitivity to the rights of animals, another significant reason …
News release: “The American Civil Liberties Union marks the 47th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act with a call for the Senate to pass S. 182, the Paycheck Fairness Act. President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963 into law 47 years ago Thursday, prohibiting wage discrimination based on sex. However, since …
The Register: “The Chinese government has issued a white paper laying out current, and future, internet policy – and you might not recognise its view of internet use in that country…The paper warns: “Citizens are not allowed to infringe upon state, social and collective interests or the legitimate freedom and rights of other citizens. No …
No Secrets, by Raffi Khatchadourian: “[Julian Paul] Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts. He and his colleagues collect documents and imagery that governments and other institutions regard as confidential and publish them on a Web site called WikiLeaks.org. Since it went online, three and a half years ago, the site has published an extensive …
News release: “Targeted killings pose a rapidly growing challenge to the international rule of law. They are increasingly used in circumstances which violate the relevant rules of international law. The international community needs to be more forceful in demanding accountability, said Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions. Alstons report to the Human …
FT.com: “Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsofts ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees. The directive to move to other operating systems began in earnest in January, after Googles Chinese operations were hacked, and could effectively end the use of Windows at Google, which employs more …
Final Report, Guantánamo Review Task Force, dated January 22, 2010 released by the Washington Post on May 29, 2010 (no registration required). “The report was completed in January but sent to select committees on Capitol Hill just this week.” See also the paper’s related graphic.
Unauthorized Aliens in the United States, April 27, 2010 “The unauthorized alien (illegal alien) population in the United States is a key and controversial immigration issue. In recent years, competing views on how to address this population have proved to be a major obstacle to enacting comprehensive immigration reform legislation. The unauthorized alien issue is …
