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Office of Equity and Human Rights Hosts City Discussion on Ferguson
2014-12-09 00:50:44| PortlandOnline
Another discussion is scheduled for Wednesday, December 10
Expand pregnancy-bias law to include accommodation rights?
2014-12-05 15:59:45| Trucking - Topix.net
Young v. United Parcel Service, in the Supreme Court, which has been built up as a cause celebre, turns on whether the courts should feel free to re-interpret a 1978 federal law, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, so as to include evolving ideas of a right to accommodation akin to the ADA.
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WMass residents react to recent civil rights protests
2014-12-05 01:46:15| Footwear - Topix.net
Protests started across the nation after a New York grand jury decided not to indict a police officer who was caught on camera placing a black man in a chokehold that contributed to his death. "Rightfully so because there's so much happening and it's really really about time that there's some change because really the whole world wants it and its about time for it to happen," Kenneth King, of Wilbraham.
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Ignoring indigenous rights Amazon fuels global warming study
2014-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than half the carbon in the Amazon region could be released into the atmosphere unless indigenous land rights are protected, a new study said on Tuesday, as a UN climate conference got under way in Peru. Indigenous territories and protected natural areas across nine South American countries account for more than half the carbon stored in the Amazon, the study published in the journal Carbon Management reported. If this land is exploited for logging, mining or commercial farming, much of...
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Flat owners in line for new rights
2014-12-02 14:50:25| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Five million people in England and Wales who own their flats should be given new rights, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) concludes.
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