The Dominican Republic is talking up reforms in its discriminatory process for acquiring national identity documents. A closer look reveals a much less encouraging picture.
Archive for March, 2011
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The prescription for addressing substance-abuse problems in the U.S. remains an exorbitantly expensive dose of prison, instead of treatment programs that are cost-effective, protect community safety, and improve people’s lives.
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When I started my film project, friends and family back in Romania were puzzled: Surely segregation can’t exist in a European country, so what exactly was I going to document?
Posted in: Education & Youth, Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: documentary film, European Court of Human Rights, Mona Nicoara, Roma, Romania, segregation
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I've just arrived in Lebanon, which has announced it will legalize sales of a safe and effective medicine that reduces dependency on heroin and other opiates. It also helps lower HIV infection rates and saves lives.
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The U.S. government must be accountable for its drone strikes in Pakistan and killing of innocent civilians. Claiming that "These people weren't gathering for a bake sale," is not an appropriate response.
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According to a new report, nearly half the states in the U.S. have changed their laws or are seriously rethinking their how they treat children in the justice system.
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Documentary filmmakers Scott Anger and Bob Sacha traveled to Ukraine to report on access to pain relief in end-of-life care: while late-stage cancer patients in other countries might get 2,000 milligrams or more of morphine per day to manage their pain, patients in Ukraine are only allowed 50...
Posted in: Europe, Health, Media & Arts, Rights & Justice
Topics: Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, documentary, film, human rights, law and health, pain relief, Pamela Chen, public health, torture
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For protesting a 50-shilling fare increase, two young men are dead and a third has now been murdered for inquiring after them. The murders highlight the need for Kenya to seriously address the problem of extrajudicial executions by the police.
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Rather than debate the place of Islam, France needs to address the real fundamentalist threat: the populist intolerance towards Muslims, Roma, and other minorities that has only increased under Sarkozy’s presidency.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: Abdallah Zekri, Adberrahmane Dahmane, Bariza Khiari, France, French Council of the Muslim Faith, Front National, fundamentalism, Grand Mosque of Paris, Islam, Jain, Jean François Copé, Laicite law, Marine Le Pen, Muslims, niqab, President Sarkozy, Roma, Sikh, Union for Popular Movement
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While drug courts have helped many Americans, they are not an appropriate response to drug law violations nor are they the most effective or cost-effective way to provide treatment to people whose only “crime” is their addiction.