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An advocacy group says thousands of New York City children have languished in foster care for years. The group, called Children's Rights, says the problems include Family Court delays; inadequate casework; and a lack of urgency throughout the child welfare system. Commissioner John B. Mattingly says the Administration for Children's Services is working to shorten foster care stays.
Marylanders on both sides of the abortion divide are steeling themselves for a historic clash over the procedure, after lawmakers voted to prohibit federal subsidies for insurance that covers it.
As President Obama considers the way forward in Afghanistan, factions within his party are increasingly torn between their strong wish to bring U.S. troops home and their equally passionate desire to protect Afghans — particularly Afghan women — from a return of the dark rule of the Taliban. Signs indicate that after a lengthy review process, the president is leaning toward sending more troops ...
Florence McClure, nicknamed "Hurricane Flo" by the politicians she hounded and the journalists who covered her, was not the type of mother who stayed home and baked cookies, daughter Carolyn McClure Dunne recalled Monday.
The controversy surrounding the use of Tasers by law enforcement grows with each death or seemingly abusive use. And while doctors are concerned about potentially lethal effect Tasers can have on the heart and brain, the company argues that Tasers are relatively safe, and less lethal than alternative weapons such as guns and batons.
Foster care is supposed to be a short term solution for kids waiting to either go back home or get adopted by a new family. But a new report by a child advocacy group depicts an overburdened system t....
Children's Rights, a New York-based nonprofit agency, renewed efforts Monday to overturn a new Tennessee policy aiming to limit how many children are placed in foster care.
Q: What effect does the report have on the process of working toward an eventual resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict?
There’s a lot of anticipation in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia where a by-election to fill a vacant senate seat is taking place Tuesday. The seat was made vacant by the death of Senator Hannah Brent of George Weah’s Congress for Democratic Change party.
WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key administration posts: Joshua Gotbaum, Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Raul Perea-Henze, Assistant Secretary of Policy and Planning, Department of Veterans Affairs Carrie Hessler Radelet, Deputy Director of the United States Peace Corps Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe ...
The George W. Bush administration was the target of much criticism from human rights groups for, among other things, its policy of extraordinary rendition, in which detainees have been transferred for interrogation in other countries that are known for their use of torture.
JERUSALEM, 10 November 2009 (IRIN) - Aid groups and several members of parliament (MPs) are outraged by what seems to be the toughening of Israeli policy towards asylum-seekers illegally entering the country.
Lev L. Dassin, a former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan whose office won the conviction of Bernard L. Madoff for his huge Ponzi scheme, resulting in a 150-year sentence, is joining the New York office of the international law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton , Benjamin Weiser writes in The New York Times.
Abortion opponents in the Senate are seeking tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, a move that could roil a shaky Democratic effort to pass President Barack Obama's signature issue by year's end.
By Robert Malley The idea of Israeli-Palestinian partition, of a two-state solution, has a singular pedigree. It has been proposed for at least eight decades. Jews first accepted it as Palestinians recoiled; by the time Palestinians warmed to the notion in the late 1980s, Israelis had turned their backs. Still, its proponents manage to portray it as fresh, new, and capable of leading to peace ...
According to an op-ed in USA Today, the Obama administration recently "supported the effort of largely Muslim nations in the U.N. Human Rights Council to recognize exceptions to free speech for any 'negative racial and religious stereotyping.'" Aside from a few such mentions in a couple press outlets, there are virtually no other references to this extraordinary political move in the mainstream ...
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