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While recognition of gender identity has increased significantly in the past two decades, so has the criminalization of transgender people, a new study shows.

UNAIDS is concerned about the impact on peoples’ health and rights following the decision of the High Court of St. Vincent and the Grenadines regarding sections 146 and 148 of the Criminal Code, which upholds discriminatory and harmful laws against LGBTQ people.

Commentary: Criminalizing homelessness is quite possibly the most expensive and ineffective policy localities can pursue.

​In an important decision of the Plenum of the Supreme Court on December 26, 2023, Tajikistan has marked a significant step towards decriminalization of HIV exposure and transmission in its pursuit of justice for people living with or affected by HIV.

With three new members seated following November elections, the Sylva Town Council is once again considering an update to the Streets and Sidewalks se...

In pushing for a bill of rights for homeless Michiganders, Democratic state Rep. Emily Dievendorf encountered a “cruel irony”: A homeless constituent providing advice on the measure was denied entry

Michelle goodwin, constitutional law and global health policy professor at georgetown law school. shes also co-faculty director of the national and global health law institute. michelle is also the author of policing the womb, invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood. professor michelle goodwin, thank you for being with me. if there was not an appropriate case study for what your book title is, i dont think there is. i wanted to get your immediate thoughts about what happened to bri...

Conflict. some of them have criminal consequences, some of them dont. the geneva conventions, for example, requires that where president years of war are concerned, the detaining authorities are required to provide them with musical instruments. now, if there is a violation of that requirement, its not a war crime. im not aware of any country that criminalized that. on the other hand, the geneva conventions and the international criminal court require criminalization and have criminalization of ...

Crimes are violations of the law of armed conflict, that have been rendered criminal. >> understood. >> these were enacted in the geneva conventions, the reflected in the international criminal court statute, there are a lot of rules governing war. governing armed conflict. some of them have criminal consequences, some of them dont. the geneva conventions, for example, requires that where prisoners of war are concerned, the detaining authorities are required to provide them with musical instrume...

Of policing the womb, invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood. professor goodwin, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i am struck by the wades of these republican appointed federal judges in their ruling, where they referred to the unborn child, and then later simply called the pregnancy a child, when they write the phrase, but the law does not, quote, provide an unqualified right for the pregnant mother to abort her child. from medically necessary reasons. this opinion ver...