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Following the Blueprint: How a New Generation of Segregationists Is Advancing Racial Gerrymandering
2020
The U.S. Constitution already has more amendments, six to be exact, dedicated to the right to vote than any other fundamental right, but the VRA put actual teeth behind the protection of this principle by zeroing in on the most egregious forms of voter suppression. A CASE IN POINT Unfortunately, as a result of a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down the formula for identifying which jurisdictions need Section 5 preclearance, the protection against the use of housing discrimination as a form of vote denial or dilution has eroded. (\"According to a recent report from EdBuild, a nonprofit focused on public-school funding, 73 communities have split to form their own school districts since 2000, and the rate of places doing so has rapidly accelerated in the past two years.\") [...]it is estimated that with the incorporation, the city-parish budget will shrink by $48 million. [...]according to July 1,2019, census data, 47.8 percent of the population in East Baton Rouge Parish is white and 47 percent is black (www.census.gov/quickfacts/ eastbatonrougeparishlouisiana).
Trade Publication Article
Human Rights
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Knight, David James
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Ajemian, Ani E
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Friedman, Josh D
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Accountability
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Conferences
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Corporate culture
2009
\"18 Mozambique, like other African countries, is both \"a source and a destination country\" for human trafficking19 and the new law was a promising step forward in a region that had previously done litde to combat either internal or cross-border trafficking.20 C. SOUTHEAST ASIA Leaders of China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam signed the Joint Declaration of the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Human Trafficking (COMMIT Declaration) on December 14, 2007.21 The region is widely known as a hotbed of human trafficking,22 and the Declaration was \"aimed at identifying and protecting trafficked persons at every point in the trafficking cycle, and to ensure that all official actions with respect to trafficked persons protect their safety, dignity and rights.
Journal Article
Human Rights
by
Knight, David James
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Elmilady, Nancy S.
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Leonard, Joi
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Capital punishment
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Crimes against humanity
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Criminal sentencing
2009
Journal Article
Human Rights
by
Stafford, Nancy Kaymar
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Ajemian, Ani E
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Singh, Jaspreet
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Contingency planning
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Councils
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Displaced persons
2008
In another war crimes case transferred from the ICTY to Bosnia, the Appellate Chamber of the Bosnian State Court increased the prison term of Radovan Stankovic from sixteen years to twenty years, stating that the original sentence had not met the purpose of punishment. Of approximately 240 cases of disappearances received by the Pakistan Supreme Court, 105 of the detainees were released, as reported by the government.328 Insofar as these releases were verified, they primarily came about due to increased pressure in 2007 by key individuals in the Pakistani judiciary emphasizing the rule of law and from international human rights groups, such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Accompanied by family or not, children displaced by the Iraq war face overcrowded living conditions, inadequate medical services, and deficient or nonexistent educational opportunities.335 In January 2007, UNHCR issued a \"Supplementary Appeal Iraq Situation Response\" (the \"Supplementary Appeal\") and then a joint appeal with UNICEF in July 2007, entitled, \"Providing Education Opportunities to Iraqi Children in Host Countries\" (the \"Joint Appeal\"), which focused on replenishing depleted funds that provide refugees with essential medical care, educational facilities, and healthy living conditions.336 The main objectives of the Supplementary Appeal are to provide emergency services by targeting the needs of the most vulnerable displaced persons.
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