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News release: “Governments responsible for serious human rights violations have over the past year intensified attacks against human rights defenders and organizations that document abuse, Human Rights Watch said in issuing its World Report 2010. The 612-page report, the organization’s 20th annual review of human rights practices around the globe, summarizes major human rights trends …
News release: “Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forums Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third position behind Finland (2). Sweden (4) completed the Nordic countries continued dominance of the top four. The reports Index assesses countries on how well they are dividing their resources …
News release: “More than three million girls genitals are forcibly cut every year and approximately 140 million women are living with mutilated genitals. Maternal mortality and infection are just two of the many health effects they suffer. This issue of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) was brought to the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting by Julia …
National Corrections Reporting Program, Thomas P. Bonczar, January 21, 2010 “Updates the electronic series of selected tables on most serious offense, sentence length, and time served of state prison admissions and releases and parole entries and discharges. The National Corrections Reporting Program collects demographic information, conviction offenses, sentence length, credited jail time, type of admission, …
Via DOJ Office of Special Counsel of the Civil Rights Division: “ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) instructors and immigrant advocates now have new workbooks at their disposal courtesy of the Justice Departments Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) education grant program. Through lessons titled: Working in the United …
A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Use of Exigent Letters and Other Informal Requests for Telephone Records, January 2010, Unclassified, Redacted. See also from EFF: Over Redaction in Audit of FBIs Use of Illegal Exigent Letters
UN Permanent Forum Origin and Development Report: State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, January 2010. “Indigenous peoples contribute extensibly to humanity’s cultural diversity, enriching it with more than two thirds of its languages and an extraordinary amount of its traditional knowledge. There are over 370 million indigenous people in some 90 countries, living in all …
Official Google Blog: “In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident–albeit a significant one–was something quite different…We launched Google.cn in …
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, news that EPIC has posted more than 250 pages of documents it obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit concerning body scanners. The documents, released by the Department of Homeland Security, reveal that Whole Body Imaging machines can record, …
Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, Report on the Situation of Economic and Social Rights in Afghanistan – IV Qaws 1388 (November/December 2009) “This report aims to assess the status of economic and social rights in Afghanistan in the year 1387 (2008/09). In this report we measure the national and international obligations of the Government with …
Report of the Council to the Membership of The American Law Institute on the Matter of the Death Penalty: “On October 23, 2009, the ALI Council voted overwhelmingly, with some abstentions, to accept the resolution of the capital punishment matter as approved by the Institutes membership at the 2009 Annual Meeting in May. The resolution …
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Background and Policy Issues, Luisa Blanchfield, Specialist in International Relations, December 2, 2009 “U.S. ratification of the United Nations (U.N.) Convention on the Rights of the Child (hereafter referred to as CRC or the Convention) may be a key area of focus during the 111th …
