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• Black votes matter: the North Carolina electors who say new law is unfair

  19-07-2015 13:00
  
  The day the US supreme court relaxed oversight of its voting procedures, North Carolina passed a law critics say discriminates against the poor and non-whiteWhen Sandra Beatty goes somewhere and does something, it’s because she really wants to – five years after losing her vision and both her feet to diabetes, any errand is an ordeal. So when on 31 October, with the help of her 31-year-old daughter, she got out of her first-floor apartment, and climbed into the passenger seat of her friend�
  
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• Divisional Court strikes down DRIPA communications data law - UK Human Rights Blog (blog)

  19-07-2015 12:47
  
  UK Human Rights Blog (blog)
  Divisional Court strikes down DRIPA communications data law
  UK Human Rights Blog (blog)
  David-Davis-Tom-Watson-HOC R (ota Davis et al) v. Secretary of State for Home Department [2015] EWHC 2092 – 17 July 2015 – read judgment. When a domestic Act of Parliament is in conflict with EU law, EU law wins. And when a bit of the EU Charter ...
  
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• Cameron must work hard to engineer pay equality

  19-07-2015 10:00
  
  The PM says needs to honour his promise to raise women’s salaries by giving the people he chooses to tackle the problem adequate resourcesIt is more than 40 years since the Equal Pay Act and still employers are only inching forward. In 2010 the coalition government put in place legislation allowing ministers to demand that employers conduct pay audits, and then promptly left it on the shelf.Now David Cameron has dusted off the section of the coalition’s Equality Act related to pay audits and
  
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• Detained China human rights lawyer confesses: state media - Yahoo News UK - Yahoo News UK

  19-07-2015 08:40
  
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  Detained China human rights lawyer confesses: state media - Yahoo News UK
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  A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer has "confessed guilt" a week after being detained in a major crackdown on legal activists, state media said. Zhou Shifeng is one of more than 130 lawyers detained or called in for questioning by state security ...en meer »
  
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• Detained China human rights lawyer confesses: state media - Yahoo News UK

  19-07-2015 08:40
  
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  Detained China human rights lawyer confesses: state media
  Yahoo News UK
  A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer has "confessed guilt" a week after being detained in a major crackdown on legal activists, state media said. Zhou Shifeng is one of more than 130 lawyers detained or called in for questioning by state security ...en meer »
  
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• Anti-apartheid heroes urge Cameron not to repeal Human Rights Act

  19-07-2015 01:04
  
  South African activists urge David Cameron not to ditch the law in Mandela Day appealSome of South Africa’s most influential intellectuals and activists have urged David Cameron to reconsider his plans to repeal the Human Rights Act, warning that the move is reminiscent of the mindset that created apartheid.In a letter to the Observer, 25 of the country’s most eminent playwrights, lawyers, politicians and artists say that more than two decades after the British people spoke out against apart
  
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