Get the Facts: What is due process?

In the United States, due process is meant to safeguard against government overreach. The clause states that no state may ...
New Hampshire Bulletin

Endangered species data, conservation subject of property rights debate

A proposal intended to expedite land use and development permitting would restrict the types of evidence state agencies could use to justify protection of threatened and endangered species.
Human Rights Watch

U.S. Policy on Voting Rights in Global Perspective

The United States is an outlier nation in that it strips voting rights from millions of citizens[1] solely on the basis of a criminal conviction.[2] As of 2022, over 4.4 million people in the United ...
NPR

60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats

Otis Wilson had enough with talking and decided to go to court. His Louisiana town of St. Francisville, north of Baton Rouge, had long elected alderpersons as at-large representatives for a single, ...
NPR

A case that could weaken the Voting Rights Act is at the Supreme Court

Two tribal nations in North Dakota are planning to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a full review of a case that has jeopardized one of the key remaining ways of enforcing the federal Voting ...
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Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol (A/RES/61/106) was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for ...
Human Rights Watch

A Hazard to Human Rights

Autonomous weapons systems present numerous risks to humanity, most of which infringe on fundamental obligations and principles of international human rights law. Such systems select and engage ...