A whopping 42 percent of Baltimore high schoolers miss a month or more of school each year. Because attendance is critical to student success, a local coalition is taking steps to address the causes of chronic absenteeism.
Archive for July, 2010
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Posted in: Education & Youth, United States
Topics: Baltimore, Jane Sundius, school attendance
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Milan Makuc became homeless after his name—along with those of more than 18,000 other Slovenians—were deleted by the government from its official registry of residents. Eighteen years later a human rights court rectified this decision, but it came too late for Makuc.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: citizenship, European Court of Human Rights, Milan Makuc, Rachel Hart, Slovenia, statelessness, Yugoslavia
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This week, more than 30 years since the Khmer Rouge was driven out of the city, the tribunal set up to try the architects of the regime's worst crimes finally delivered its first sentence. But does it amount to real justice for Cambodians?
Posted in: Asia, Rights & Justice
Topics: Cambodia, duch, ECCC, extraordinary chambers in the courts of cambodia, genocide, Heather Ryan, international justice, Khmer Rouge
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As summer heats up, one group is taking a careful look at Lebanon's private beach clubs, where non-whites are routinely denied admission.
Posted in: Middle East, Rights & Justice
Topics: Ammar Abu Zayyad, discrimination, inequality, Lebanon, racism, video
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Despite proof that police are singling out people who “look like” immigrants for identity checks in Spain, government officials continue to deny that such practices even exist.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: ethnic profiling, immigration, Indira Goris, racism, Rosalind Williams, Spain
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I’m deeply concerned about an America that values its security more than its principles. Some of our elected officials have publicly stated that their first responsibility is to protect the American people. They’d better review their oaths. Their first responsibility is to the Constitution.
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If we are serious about HIV prevention, evidence-based policies such as decriminalization of personal possession must be embraced. Governments can no longer allow misguided criminal justice policies to stand in the way of public health.
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There is no credible evidence that demonstrates transferring youth into adult court reduces crime or recidivism. There is, however, considerable, disturbing research showing the physical and psychological harm that comes to the youngsters in an adult jail.
Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Baltimore, criminal justice, Diana Morris, juvenile justice, pretrial detention, prison
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At a time of rising extremism and violence against Roma, designer Erika Varga uses fashion as a way to bridge Roma and Hungarian cultures.
Posted in: Europe, Media & Arts
Topics: Andy Haupert, Hungary, Roma
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The first man to be tried by the International Criminal Court has been released once again. But the Trial Chamber's decision does send a deeply important message about the ICC: this is no kangaroo court.