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Wisconsin unions score major win with court ruling that restores collective bargaining rights lost in 2011
Wisconsin public worker and teachers unions scored a major legal victory Monday with a ruling that restores collective bargaining rights…
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Cinema
‘Zita the Spacegirl’ Movie Rights Nabbed by Sycamore Studios
The newly founded Sycamore Studios has bagged another high-profile piece of intellectual property for film adaptation. Formed in August by…
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Who are Turkiye’s ‘Newborn Gang’ and why are they on trial? | Child Rights News
A trial is holding Turkiye rapt as a group of medical professionals, suspected to have killed at least 10 newborns,…
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Politics
‘No consequences’ for violating human rights in privately funded research in Canada, says ethics expert
When Janice Parente read a CBC story this past spring about a dubious brainwave study targeting primarily Indigenous kids in…
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Politics
Amazon faces Indian court scrutiny for labour conditions at warehouse | Labour Rights News
Amazon is facing prosecution in an Indian court for labour law violations at a major warehouse near the country’s national…
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Bosnian citizen’s legal battle exposes ethnic voting rights issue in EU court
The Kovačević vs Bosnia and Herzegovina legal case before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has reopened Pandora’s…
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Chilean President Boric rejects allegations of sexual harassment | Women’s Rights News
Authorities confirm criminal investigation being conducted over allegations of harassment. Chilean authorities have confirmed that President Gabriel Boric is being…
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Walt Disney agrees to pay $43.3m to settle pay discrimination suit | Women’s Rights News
The suit was filed in 2019 after the plaintiff learned that six men with same job title earned substantially more.…
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Israel deliberately killed three Lebanon journalists, rights watchdog says | Freedom of the Press News
Human Rights Watch says the Israeli attack on the journalists in October was carried out using a US-produced bomb. An…
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Literature:
Poem of the week: The Rights of Woman by Anna Laetitia Barbauld | Poetry
The Rights of Woman Yes, injured Woman! Rise, assert thy right!Woman! too long degraded, scorned, opprest;O born to rule in…
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