“votes for women," an upcoming exhibit at the national portrait
Votes For Women, Upcoming Exhibit at National Portrait Gallery, Highlights the Bold Accomplishments of Women of Color. ..…
timeline: major mass shootings this decade
The shooting is the worst ever peacetime mass killing in New Zealand and the country has raised its security threat level to the highest. ..…
wafd party sidelined on egypt's political scene
CAIRO - century Wafd party credited with leading popular demands to end British occupation, has now been sidelined on the country's political scene, analysts say.. ..…
these elections are a choice between resignation and despair
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, of New Right party, wants to give Knesset veto over Supreme Court decisions, March 12, 2019 ... ..…
old guard looks to new generation of voices on nuclear disarmament
Kelsey Davenport admits that Cold War and the impending doom of nuclear annihilation is not something she recalls while growing up in her Marquette, Michigan, even. ..…
don't erase women at the united nations
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activists and some Western nations spearheading U.N reinterpretation of sex in treaties such as International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. ..…
sexual assault: is there coverage for that?
This is the first time that New York’s highest court addressed whether an insurer can waive its right to assert an argument based upon the number of occurrences or whether a particular allocation method should be employed. ..…
georgetown law expands campus with record-setting gift
The university purchased the property for $70 million, citing District of Columbia property records, and the school announced Tuesday that it will use the new space for classrooms, offices and other collaborative work areas. It's directly south of the law campus, and the school's centers..…
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The Deplorable State of Human Rights America By Stephen Lendman, March 18, 2019.. ..…
spotlight: china's foreign investment law to boost investor
The law, based on system of pre-establishment treatment plus list, aims to improve the transparency of foreign investment policies and ensure that foreign-invested enterprises participate in market competition on equal basis.. ..…
hiring: clinic seeking women’s leadership consultant « human rights
The International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School seeks practitioner for consultancy to support exciting new leadership initiative. ..…
brazil’s labor unions prepare for war with far-right president jair
FLORIANÓPOLIS, BRAZIL — On gray afternoon in early February, 60 local leaders from roughly 40 unions meet at the tan, seven-story headquarters of Santa Catarina State Commerce Workers Federation to discuss how to move forward under Brazil's new, far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro. ..…
fighting the world’s largest criminal industry: modern slavery —
UNITED NATIONS, Mar - Modern and human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal industries and one of the human rights crises today, ... ..…
egypt’s historic wafd party eclipsed under sisi’s rule
century Wafd party credited with leading popular demands to end British occupation, has now been sidelined on the country's political scene, analysts say.. ..…
girls who have a twin brother are less likely to graduate from
While all girls are exposed to testosterone while in utero, having a boy in the womb at the same time exposes them to a higher level of the hormone, The New York Times reported. ..…
the internet is changing the way we preserve endangered languages
The oldest continually occupied North America is in the deserts of New Mexico called Sky City, the original of the four villages that make up Acoma Pueblo. ..…
huge youth turnout for international women’s day in berlin –
But maybe not here at Alex, I reflected perhaps more would now hear of German Socialist Clara Zetkin, champion of women's rights and for all working people. ..…
the new jews: supersessionism, political theology, and the american
Similarly, in 1987 the Presbyterian Church (USA), again quoting from the 11th chapter of Paul’s Letter to the Romans in the New Testament, bluntly proclaimed that “Christians have not replaced Jews” and repudiated without qualification what it acknowledges as “the church’s long and..…
murderous war on defense lawyers in the philippines – asia sentinel
On March 13 at about pm, lawyer and activist named Rex Jasper Lopoz opened the door of his car outside City Mall Tagum City and started to climb in, to have gunman riding tandem on passing motorcycle fire a.22 bullet into his back.. ..…
democratic presidential hopefuls to participate in lgbtq debate this
Democratic presidential hopefuls will have the chance to speak about their views and policy platforms regarding LGBTQ rights at debate on Oct., the eve of National Coming Out Day.. ..…
is fascism returning to italy?
Europeans want somebody new, somebody who approaches politics in a different way. ... Some are turning to the fringe right. But they are definitely turning away from the mainstream parties that have been ruling for decades. . ..…
rachel notley calls for april 16 election with hope 'to build one
By providing speaking notes, Documents obtained by CBC and Toronto Star revealed that members of Kenney's team orchestrated his Jeff Callaway's during the leadership race, graphics and other materials — all aimed to attack former Wildrose Party Brian Jean. ..…
twenty years ago: nato's war of aggression against yugoslavia: who are
The members of this new pro-NATO political grouping not only tacitly support the bombings in Yugoslavia, they have also agreed to “low level military cooperation” with NATO while insisting that “the group is not a military alliance directed against any third party, namely Moscow.”10..…
aline helg: slave runaway communities: the ongoing struggle
Commanding vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. ..…
socialism curiously trumps fascism in u.s. political threat reporting
Socialism Curiously Trumps Fascism in U.S. ..…
shaked vows to scrap panel that appoints judges, as right takes on
By demanding it move forward without full coalition support, Despite passing the key ministerial vote during the government, the advancement was stalled by disagreements among coalition partners, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accusing Shaked's of New Right, Naftali Bennett, of..…
study: holding grudges poisons us
On the evening of June 3, tanks and soldiers were given a new order: Advance to Tiananmen Square regardless of who or what may be in your path, and clear the square by early on June 4. . ... After keeping quiet about the carnage she witnessed in Tiananmen Square that night, she..…
an election challenge: time for change at newsguild?
The good news is that 3,000 staff members of sixty publications or new media outlets have won the right to negotiate with in the last four years. ..…
state dep't: 800k to 2 million muslims forced into 'internment camps'
Commenting on the situation, the director of State Department's Human Rights and Democracy Bureau, Michael Kozak, said last week, For me, you have not seen things like this since the 1930s, reference to the internment camps of Nazi Germany and the gulag prisons of Soviet Union. .. ..…
new mexico's democratic governor stunned by abortion bill’s defeat
Michelle Lujan Grisham is shocked that her Democratic-controlled Senate failed to pass bill codifying Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. ..…
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TEHRAN - The Damascus Army repelled attacks by Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay'at from the demilitarized zone on Northern Hama and Southern Idlib.. ..…
beto o'rourke: late-term abortions are 'about women making their own
O'Rourke was smart to bookend Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania between the traditional states of Iowa and New Hampshire, .. Right now he is the talk of the town and he has pushed Democrats off the front page... ..…
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