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Showing posts with label human rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human rights. Show all posts
Monday, August 19, 2024

Law student leads protests in Kenya

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Socioeconomic unrest and youth protests are roiling Kenya, and President William Ruto seems unable to get a grip on the discontent. Freelanc...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Lawyers spotlight persecution of profession in Iran

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Taymaz Valley via Flickr CC BY 2.0 Yesterday the International Law Section (ILS) of the American Bar Association (ABA) recognized the In...
Friday, November 4, 2022

As Jacoby talk commemorates Kristallnacht, Ukraine recurs in historical record of flights from oppression

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An upcoming talk on Kristallnacht, a recent experience in the Paraguayan Chaco, and the ongoing war in Ukraine have me thinking lately about...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Invasion of Ukraine marks six months; Russian propaganda flows despite court OK of EU media ban

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#IStandWithUkraine On July 27, the European Union (EU) General Court upheld a continental broadcast ban on Russia Today (RT). The EU Council...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Habeas petition for woolly monkey was valid, Ecuadorian court rules, recognizing right of nature

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A silvery woolly monkey at the Louisville Zoo (Ltshears CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) The Constitutional Court of Ecuador entered a ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Inter-American Court heralds community radio as human right for indigenous Guatemalan broadcasters

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Community radio in Colombia (USAID CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr ) The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) ruled in October 2021 that ...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Should mass media audiences have right to know whether content is fact or opinion?

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Political protestor in 2012 (photo by Gabriel Saldaña CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr ) To protect the civil rights of the audience, radio and te...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

Museveni still holds reins in Uganda after 35 years, rebuffs allegations of human rights abuses

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At age 77, Yoweri Museveni maintains his grip on power in Uganda and yesterday rebuffed criticism by Human Rights Watch. In 2016, I presente...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Rwanda preens in Commonwealth spotlight, while genocide trauma, Congo conflict smolder just offstage

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June 22, KIGALI —The usually biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, "CHOGM 2022," postponed from 2020, is under way in...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Uruguay busca idear carta de derechos digital

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Palacio Legislativo en Montevideo ( foto por Tiana Gerfauo Gonzalez CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Uruguay está redactando una carta de derechos digitales....
Friday, December 24, 2021

Indigenous people battle extractive industries, government in Constitutional Court of Ecuador

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Kichwa representatives appear before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) in 2015. ( CIDH photo CC BY 2.0 .) A case inchin...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Court sentences 'Hotel Rwanda' activist to 25 years; U.S. plaintiffs serve Greek airline in civil action

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Paul Rusesabagina ( NDLA : Creator: Erik Mårtensson/TT | Credit: TT Nyhetsbyrån CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) Real-life "Hotel Rwanda" protago...
Sunday, September 12, 2021

FOIA committee ponders access amid privatization

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I had the great privilege last week to speak to the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee , working under the aegis of t...