Canada’s new guidelines to support human rights defenders a step in the right direction

With human rights defenders increasingly under attack around the world, civil society organizations today welcomed the Government of Canada’s new guidelines[1] aimed at strengthening its approach to ensuring the safety and security of these courageous activists as part of its feminist foreign policy.  Human rights defenders are often criminalized, targeted with smear campaigns, discredited, threatened, arbitrarily arrested, and face violence...

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Civil Rights Corps and ACLU Sue District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro to

NEW ORLEANS — To end the unconstitutional deception and jailing of crime victims and witnesses by the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office, Civil Rights Corps, the American Civil Liberties NEW ORLEANS — To end the unconstitutional deception and jailing of crime victims and witnesses by the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office, Civil Rights Corps, the American Civil Liberties Union, and...

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Afternoon Briefs: DOJ civil rights nominee defends letter; lawyer charged in triple murder

The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation’s 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue. Home Daily News Afternoon Briefs: DOJ civil rights nominee… News Roundup Afternoon Briefs: DOJ civil rights nominee defends letter; lawyer charged in triple murder By...

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