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- Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, Petitioner-Appellant, and Mark A. Berman, as Next Friend, Petitioner, v. Commander S.L. Wright, Usn Commander, Consolidated Naval Brig., Respondent-Appellee. Specialists in the Law of War; Professors of Evidence and Procedure; United States Criminal Scholars and Historians; Former Senior Justice Department Officials; Center for National Security Studies; American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; Asian-American Justice Center; National Immigrant Justice Center; Human Rights First; Human Rights Watch; Professors of Constitutional Law and Federal Jurisdiction; Hate Free Zone; Muslim Advocates; World Organization for Human Rights Usa, Amici Supporting Appellant., 487 F.3d 160 (4th Cir. 2007)
ARGUED: Jonathan L. Hafetz, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law, New York, New York, for Appellant. David B. Salmons, Assist...
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To: LABOR EDITORS
Contact: Galen Munroe of International Brotherhood of Teamsters, +1-202-624-6911, gmunroe@teamster.org
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... of Police Affairs, the Bureau of the National Police Agency, the National Police Headquarters, a... that aimed to use women as a high-quality human resource for police administrative affairs. As of ... crime investigation course, human rights protection course, shooting training course, marti... of the National Human Rights Committee. In May 2001 the government enacted the National H...
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NEW YORK and PITTSBURGH, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Institute for Global Labour & Human Rights (formerly National Labor Committee) is releasing a new in-depth report "Dirty Parts/Where Lost Fingers Come Cheap: Ford in China." which documents worker rights violations--including workers maimed when factory management turned off critical safety equipment--at the Yuwei Plastics and Hardware Products company in Dongguan, China. According to workers, 80 percent of the factory's production is for Ford. The Yuwei factory has a U.S. office and warehouse in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Will the Malaysian human rights body suffer a downgrade by the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions due to its `toothless tiger' image?
NOW THAT AMENDMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO the Suhakam Act, we will have to wait and see if the Malaysian human rights body suffers a downgrade from `A' to `B' status by the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions (ICC).
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General review of the legal activities of the United Nations
Membership of the United Nations 97
Peace and security
(a) Peacekeeping missions and operations
(b) Political and peacebuilding missions
(c) Other bodies
(d) Missions of the Security Council
(e) Other peacekeeping matters
(f) Action of Member States authorized by the Security Council
(g) Sanctions imposed under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations
(h) Terrorism
(i) Humanitarian law and human rights in the context of peace and security
(j) Piracy
Disarmament and related matters
(a) Disarmament machinery
(b) Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferations issues
(c) Biological and chemical weapons issues
(d) Conventional weapons issues
(e) Regional disarmament activities of the United Nations...
..., on the recommendation of the Third Committee, resolution 65/198, entitled “Indigenous issues...(ii) Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and pro...
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WASHINGTON, March 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Geneve Mantri, Amnesty International USA government relations director for national security and human rights, will be observing the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee hearing on "The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response.
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He didn't want his comments to become a distraction," [David Axelrod] said during an interview with David Gregory on MSNBC.com. When asked if he thought it was a smear campaign against [Jones], Axelrod refused to answer. "[Jones] showed his commitment... by removing himself as an issue.
Howard Dean, former head of the Democratic National Committee, told "Fox News Sunday" that he thought Jones "was brought down" and that his resignation was "a loss to the country."
"As a tireless advocate for disadvantaged people and the environment," his website relates, "Van helped to pass America's first 'green job training' legislation: the Green Jobs Act, which George W. Bush signed into law as a part of the 2007 Energy Bill. He is the cofounder of a number of successful nonprofit organizations, i...
... recognized, awardwinning pioneer in human rights and the clean energy economy. He is a 1993 ...
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Lora Lumpe of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, +1-202-361-3028, lora@fcnl.org; or Steve Goose of Human Rights Watch, +1-540-630-3011 (mobile), gooses@hrw.org
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A Guatemalan garment factory that made Daisy Fuentes-brand apparel for Kohl's Corp. signed a wide-ranging agreement to comply with Western labor standards after human-rights groups had branded the factory an "abusive sweatshop.
The National Labor Committee, which led the protest against the Korean-owned Fribo factory in rural Guatemala, said Fribo signed the agreement early Thursday morning following nearly a month of public pressure and negotiations.