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Watch Radhika Balakrishnan on MSNBC

MSNBC's All In Discussion: What Obama’s budget doesn't get: growth and austerity cannot co-exist . Austerity is now in full swing in the United States. MSNBC's Chris Hayes discusses the politics of austerity with Radhika Balakrishnan, Chrystia Freeland, and former Greek prime minister George Papandreou. Balakrishnan is former chair of...
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USHRN Sends ICCPR Delegation to Geneva

A USHRN delegation traveled to Geneva to attend the 107 th session of the UN Human Rights Committee. The Adoption of the List of Issues for the U.S. government International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2013 review took place during the session. Delegation members attended a briefing with...
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This Week in Human Rights News - VAWA, Sequestration, Voting Rights

This week in the news, we see some legislative progress, specifically on violence against women with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act . But as this piece on...
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WNUSP Response to the Special Rapporteur on Torture

WNUSP issues a response to the recent statement by the Special Rapporteur on Torture, in which he called for an absolute ban on forced psychiatric interventions.
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Wyoming Abolishes Life Without Parole for Children

Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth Applauds Governor Mead for his action on this issue.
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