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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 ACLU Records
obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union in a Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit reveal new information about the CIA's
destruction of videotapes depicting the brutal interrogation of
prisoners at CIA black sites, including the ...
Environment
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 Boalt Alliance to Abolish Torture (BAAT) Students and staff at the Berkeley
School of Law today called on the Justice Department, the Pennsylvania Bar, and
the University of California "to conduct full and thorough investigations" of
former ...
Environment
Pennsylvania
California
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 Human Rights Watch The UK government should immediately order an independent judicial
inquiry into the role and complicity of British security services in
the torture of terrorism suspects in Pakistan, Human Rights Watch said
in a report released today. ...
Environment
Pakistan
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 Human Rights First National security experts, a former federal prosecutor, and 9/11
widows are calling for cooler heads to prevail as those opposed to New
York-based federal trials for the five Guantanamo detainees accused in
the 9/11 conspiracy ramp up ...
Environment
New York
Homeland Security
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 Center for Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity filed suit today challenging a
June 13, 2007 decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denying
the Colorado River cutthroat trout protection under the Endangered
Species Act. The ...
Environment
Colorado
George Bush
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 Americas Voice This week, news reports indicated that a group of Republicans may propose a resolution to the Republican National Committee that would impose a litmus test on candidates seeking party support. Entitled “ Resolution on Reagan’s Unity ...
Environment
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 Africa Action Following the recent
announcement by
the World Health Organization that HIV is the leading killer of
women
around the world, and reports that HIV infection rates in Washington
D.C. have
reached roughly one in 20 people, DC residents and ...
Environment
Washington
Barack Obama
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation The Center for Arms Control and
Non-Proliferation praised the Obama administration today for outlining broad
areas of cooperation with India
and not rushing nuclear energy negotiations, which could further ...
Environment
India
Barack Obama
United States
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 CREW Yesterday CREW received a response from the Centers for Control and
Prevention (CDC) denying CREW’s request for expedition of its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking all records related to the agency’s policies, protocols, and ...
Environment
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 Human Rights Watch United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon should provide an
analytic, evaluative report on Israeli and Hamas investigations into
alleged laws-of-war violations during the Gaza conflict, as requested
by the General Assembly, Human ...
Environment
Israel
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 Center for Constitutional Rights A group of former McCarthy era blacklist victims filed a friend-of-court
brief in a Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Supreme Court case
yesterday, arguing that the Court should not allow the government to
repeat ...
Environment
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 US PIRG Dangerous or toxic toys can still be found on America's
store shelves, the U.S. Public Interest
Research Group announced on Tuesday in its 24 th annual Trouble
in Toyland report.
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Environment
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 CSPI Nearly 80 percent of food ads on the popular children's network
Nickelodeon are for foods of poor nutritional quality, according to an analysis conducted by the Center for Science in the Public Interest .
That represents a modest and not quite ...
Environment
Food Shortage
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 PEER People working inside the Interior Department Headquarters have been
subjected to years of construction fumes, smoke and soot from a
multi-year modernization of the massive building while it remains
occupied. Despite hundreds of health ...
Environment
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 Council of Canadians The Council of Canadians is sounding the alarm over recommendations the
government received today to formalize and extend a water market system
throughout the province of Alberta. The Alberta government released
reports today ...
Environment
Water Conservation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2009 Mobilization for Climate Justice
A broad and diverse coalition of organizations working for
social, environmental, economic and racial justice has come together to call
for urgent action on the global climate crisis based on equitable, democratic
and ...
Environment
Climate Change
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2009 CEPR The
National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican
Institute (IRI), organizations that receive funding from the U.S. State
Department, are planning on sending delegations to observe the November
29 elections in Honduras, ...
Environment
Honduras
Haiti
Venezuela
George Will
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2009 Constitution Project Today, the Constitution Project and The Rutherford Institute filed a friend of the court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
The case involves federal laws prohibiting "material support" ...
Environment
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2009 ACLU The
American Civil Liberties Union today filed a friend-of-the-court brief
on behalf of the Carter Center, Human Rights Watch and several other
human rights and humanitarian organizations in a case before the U.S.
Supreme Court challenging the ...
Environment
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2009 Global Climate Campaign As
hopes of a meaningful deal at the Copenhagen
Climate Talks fade, a global protest is building against the failure of world
leaders to make progress on this critical issue.
There will be an initial ‘wave’ of
protests on ...
