She is the first African-Americanwoman ever elected to the Illinois legislature from Central Illinois, the youngest woman to serve in leadership in the House and is a 2013 Edgar Fellow. . Robin Kelly co-chairs the transition’s Restorative Justice and Safe Communities Committee and serves..…
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is feeling the full pressure of White House and its surrogates to pass the pending justice reform that is minority communities.. ..…
Trial judge dismisses call for new House election in Stratford . | November 30, 2018View as 'Clean Read' . . . . ... After a Superior Court judge concluded the court had no jurisdiction to review a two-vote win for a House seat in 1984 by Democrat Joan Hartley, a committee..…
The individual articles of Declaration are supposed to safeguard everything from the right to life and freedom of expression, to civil and economic rights, such as the right to decent work and pay, education and housing.. ..…
Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation; National Co-convener, United for Peace and Justice . Leslie Cagan, peace and justice organizer . James Carroll, author of House of War . ..…
UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences Dubravka Simonovic today said Nepali women were facing big problems getting justice in VAW cases. Speaking at a press conference at UN House here today, Simonovic made special reference to 13-year old Nirmala..…
Bruce Norris’s new play at the Steppenwolf Theater Company applies his usual cynicism to questions of justice and vengeance for sex offenders. . ..…
A vague sense of human rights, democracy, and social justice hovered over her name and her place at the head of the government in exile. But, being under house arrest for much of the 1990s and 2000s, she couldn’t make corporate decisions or direct actions. ..…