Why does the media focus only on the misery of people with mental disabilities? Would it be too boring to find out that there are real, cost-effective solutions being implemented right now in Kenya?
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Posted in: Africa, Europe, Health, Media & Arts, Rights & Equality
Topics: CNN, Croatia, deinstitutionalization, intellectual disability, Judith Klein, Kenya, mental disabilities, mental health
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TV's Judge Mathis, who is himself formerly incarcerated, focused an episode of his legal reality show on the critical role of employment for those with criminal convictions, their families, and communities.
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In Kenya, secret government edicts ensure that millions face discrimination when they try to secure access to nationality and basic rights. But a new case before the High Court in Mombasa is chipping away at the practice.
Posted in: Africa, Justice, Rights & Equality
Topics: citizenship, equality and citizenship, Kenya, Nubians, Sebastian Kohn, statelessness, vetting, video
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Will anti-Roma hate-mongering drown out EU attempts to create equal access to quality early childhood education and care?
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In the wake of the January 25 revolution, dozens of Egyptian organizations have decried the absence of women on Egypt's Constitutional Committee, the body tasked with ensuring rights and proposing amendments to the country’s constitution.
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, Middle East, Rights & Equality
Topics: democracy, Egypt, Hanan Rabbani, January 25 revolution, women, women's rights
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In recent years, U.S. immigration enforcement has devolved from federal to state and local authorities. A new study looks at the impact of that trend.
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A controversial program has led to racial profiling and civil rights abuses in the United States, while diverting scarce resources from law enforcement's traditional public safety functions.
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As a groundbreaking mobile court trial continues in Congo, a community confronts ingrained social stereotypes and the stigma of rape for seemingly the first time.
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Several European leaders have recently declared multiculturalism to be a failure. But scapegoating particular communities is not the way to help build more inclusive societies.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Equality
Topics: EU, Europe, France, Germany, Helene Irving, inclusion, integration, multiculturalism, Muslims, United Kingdom, video
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More than three million people regularly use heroin in Russia, yet the country's leaders have routinely refused to finance basic services, such as needle exchange or substitution therapies, which would help stem one of the world's fastest-growing HIV/AIDS epidemics.