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Following the ferry sinking which claimed the lives of 11 school children in Loeuk Dek district of Kandal province, psychologists have asked that relevant institutions provide counselling to the survivors, fearing the event may have traumatised them.

A housing developer allegedly used a discriminatory practice known as "blockbusting" to force a homeowner to sell her house in Northwest D.C.

The Eleventh Circuit Finally Breaks Its Silence on Website Accessibility – but Was Its Decision Worth the Wait? Thursday, April 8, 2021 After keeping us waiting with baited breath for several years, the Eleventh Circuit finally broke its silence – issuing its long-anticipated ruling in  Gil v. Winn-Dixie Stores, holding that websites are not covered as places of public accommodation under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“Title III” or “ADA”).  In doing...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: After keeping us waiting with baited breath for several years, the Eleventh Circuit finally broke its silence – issuing its long-anticipated ruling in Gil v. Winn-Dixie Stores, holding that websites are not covered as places of public accommodation under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“Title III” or “ADA”).  In doing so, the Court reversed and vacated the district court’s decision finding that defendan...

A White House budget summary argues funding is needed to address “a national reckoning on racial inequity centuries in the making.” The budget gives a $33 million boost — a nearly 20 percent increase — to efforts across the department for police reform, enforcement of voting rights and the prosecution of hate crimes. ADVERTISEMENT The funds should be targeted “in communities uniquely impacted by bias, xenophobia, and hate driven by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, such as Asian America[n...

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 Standing Group on Human Rights and Transitional Justice, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)     We are pleased to announce that submissions for the seventh joint international conference on human rights, on the theme  Human Rights and Foreign Policy, taking place from 14 to 16 June 2020  online (hosted by the Human Rights Consortium, Universit...

UNAMID launches network for survivors of sexual violence in the greater Jebel Mara area of Darfur Format © Amin Ismail, UNAMID. On 10 December, the Women Protection Advisory Unit of the Human Rights Section (HRS) launched a Network for Survivors of Sexual Violence in the Greater Jebel Mara area of Darfur. The launch, held at Jebel Mara Gardens in Zalingei town, was part of events organized by HRS to commemorate the International Human Rights Day and to conclude this year’s 16 Days of Activi...

Follow #ThinkLandscape on Twitter and check out our updates Sudan: UNAMID launches network for survivors of sexual violence in the greater Jebel Mara area of Darfur 11 December, 2020 - 10:50 Country: Sudan Source: UN-AU Mission in Darfur On 10 December, the Women Protection Advisory Unit of the Human Rights Section (HRS) launched a Network for Survivors of Sexual Violence in the Greater Jebel Mara area of Darfur. The launch, held at Jebel Mara Gardens in Zalingei town, was part...

Context, remember that these thugs were harassing not only people who were voting at that philadelphia precinct in the fall of 2008, but also harassing and hurling poisonous racial epithets and demagoguery and people trying to monitor the voting booth there. its thanks to brave whistle blowers within the goj, christopher adams and christopher coates the head of the rights section and who blue the whistle, and the monkeying around by many of the appointees, the polittization, and even under the a...