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DOS, Apr. 12, 2022 "The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – the Human Rights Reports – cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human...

2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – the Human Rights Reports – cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal...

Cornell Law Prof. Ian M. Kysel writes: "As the amicus briefs in the 9th circuit appeal in Flores rolled in, I wanted to flag one in particular on which I am co-counsel: an amicus brief by more than 125 legal scholars and non-governmental organizations...

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2018

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016

EB-4 Visa Limit Reached for Special Immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras A final action date of January 1, 2010 has been set for special immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras and is reflected in the State Department’s...

Land is more than a precious commodity. It feeds us. It protects us. It gives us hope, a feeling of being rooted in the here and now, and a sense of the possibilities in whatever lies ahead. Indeed, there are few human emotions quite like the attachment...

"Secretary of State John Kerry will present the 2014 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices at 10:15 a.m. on June 25, 2015, in the Press Briefing Room at the U.S. Department of State. The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices , commonly...

Exclusive from LexisNexis France/Semaine Juridique, General Edition: Looted Resources in Global Supply Chains: Asking the Right Questions{1} Elise Groulx, Ad.E., LL.M., Attorney at law{2}, Of Counsel, Washington office, Boyle Litigation, District of...

Arthur Larson’s passion for world peace through law and human rights By Robin E. Kobayashi, J.D., LexisNexis Legal and Professional Operations The rule of law is a theme that unifies LexisNexis across the globe and is one that is passionately...

By Mirela V. Hristova Excerpt from Are Intellectual Property Rights Human Rights? Patent Protection and the Right to Health , 93 J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Soc'y 339 (November 2011) A Burgeoning Conflict Laurence Heifer has famously observed...

By Mirela V. Hristova Excerpt from Are Intellectual Property Rights Human Rights? Patent Protection and the Right to Health , 93 J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Soc'y 339 (November 2011) A Burgeoning Conflict Laurence Heifer has famously observed...

BEIJING (AP) - Police barred artist Ai Weiwei from a hearing on his company's lawsuit against Beijing tax authorites and blocked filming at the courthouse Wednesday as part of an intimidation campaign against the outspoken government critic. Ai...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. judge threw out a lawsuit Wednesday against Sri Lanka's president over killings allegedly carried out by his forces during the country's ethnic civil war. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that she must...

KHMIS SAHEL Morocco (AP) - Escape for 16-year-old Amina Filali from her marriage came in the form of a pill of rat poison she bought in the market for 60 cents. Pressured by a conservative rural Moroccan society, a judge and her own mother to marry...