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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.
Jobless Checks: Voting 403-12, members sent President Obama, a bill providing 20 more weeks of jobless checks for those losing current allotments in states with at least 8.5 percent unemployment. A yes vote was to pass a bill (HR 3548) that also provides 14 more weeks in the other states.
Republican legislators were at odds over whether to criticize the state's largest anti-abortion organization for supporting a Democrat.
Republican legislators are at odds over whether to criticize the state's largest anti-abortion organization for supporting a Democrat.
NASHVILLE — Republican legislators are at odds over whether to criticize the state's largest anti-abortion organization for supporting a Democrat.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama made a last-minute personal appeal to Democrats to pass landmark health care legislation Saturday as the House opened debate on a bill to expand coverage to millions of the uninsured.
VIP Visits • Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Brazil (7-13 November). • Antonio Maria Costa, UNODC Executive Director: Doha (7-10 and 13), Tripoli (10-12), Uganda (14-16).
Jerusalem - Israel Friday rejected an Arab-backed UN General Assembly resolution, giving it three months to launch an independent, credible investigation into last winter's Gaza war. The resolution, adopted by the international body with a 114-18 vot...
Amnesty International has urged the authorities in Côte d’Ivoire to ensure that £27 million compensation paid by the oil trading company Trafigura in the Probo Koala case.
Berlin- One of two inquiries into an airstrike in Afghanistan in which dozens of civilians are thought to have died became snarled Friday in a legal question about what law applies. A military inquiry begun by NATO has suggested that German army Colo...
MIAMI----Nikki Lewis Simon, an attorney with international law firm Greenberg Traurig P.A., has been named to the Mercy Hospital Board of Trustees. She is a shareholder in the firm’s Miami office and a member of the Litigation practice group.
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will speak in a Milwaukee suburb on Friday night as part of a program presented by Wisconsin Right to Life.
Pakistani women's rights activists won a victory when the National Assembly passed a bill calling for harsher punishment for sexual harassment of women.
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will speak in a Milwaukee suburb on Friday night as part of a program presented by Wisconsin Right to Life.
There has been recent commotion by supporters of the United Nations' Goldstone report spreading half-truths and misinformation by claiming that the report deals with "human rights."
Eighth District U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind., might have expected that his amendment to the health care reform bill, which he says will ensure no federal funds are used to provide elective abortions, would be opposed by Planned Parenthood. The abortion rights group weighed in with a statement of opposition on Tuesday. But the Ellsworth amendment, which House leaders have said they may ...
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