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“The key message of the contribution of the Special Rapporteur is the following: the right to food is not merely a slogan, and it is not only of symbolic value; it is a tool, with clear operational impacts, that can improve the impacts of interventions in a variety of domains, and make them more sustainable …
ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law, Updated 8 March 2010, by Marci Hoffman “Introduction: This chapter will attempt to provide a guide to the ever expanding area of international human rights law. The focus will be on the electronic sources available for this topic, regardless of the format. This chapter will include general …
News release: “A total of 2,376 federal and state applications for orders authorizing the interception of wire, oral or electronic communications, known as wiretaps, was reported in 2009. The number of applications for orders by federal authorities was 663; the number of applications reported by state prosecuting officials was 1,713. No applications were denied. The …
News release [includes database with links to data on individual countries, regions, and rank] “There are 40 names on this years list of Predators of Press Freedom 40 politicians, government officials, religious leaders, militias and criminal organisations that cannot stand the press, treat it as an enemy and directly attack journalists. They are powerful, …
Generalized satisfaction of search: Adverse influences on dual-target search accuracy – Mathias S. Fleck, Ehsan Samei, and Stephen R. Mitroff, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Carl E. Ravin Advanced Imaging Laboratories, Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center “The successful detection of a target in a radiological search can …
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, this news release: “EPIC and a broad coalition of organizations sent a formal petition to the Department of Homeland Security to demand that the agency suspend the airport body scanner program. The petition states that the “uniquely intrusive search” is …
U.S. Initiatives to Promote Global Internet Freedom: Issues, Policy, and Technology. April 5, 2010 Modern means of communications, led by the Internet, provide a relatively inexpensive, open, easy-entry means of sharing ideas, information, pictures, and text around the world. In a political and human rights context, in closed societies when the more established, formal news …
Follow up to Missing White House E-Mails Still Factor in Torture Memo Investigation, this CREW news release: “On Friday, April 16, CREW received an initial response to its Freedom of Information Act request of the Department of Justices Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) related to the failure of former OLC official John Yoo to preserve …
H. R. 3590, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [906 pages, PDF] “OFFICE.There is established within the Office of the Secretary, an Office on Womens Health (referred to in this section as the Office). The Office shall be headed by a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Womens Health who may report to the Secretary. “(b) DUTIES.The …
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, this news release: “Ninety-three percent of Americans said they are willing to sacrifice some level of privacy to increase safety when traveling by air, according to research conducted in January and February by Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS). Nearly two-thirds of …
“The United States Congress established the Days of Remembrance as our nations annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims. This year Holocaust Remembrance Day is Sunday, April 11. The Museum designated Stories of Freedom: What You Do Matters as the theme …
