The school has witnessed cases in which girls have dropped out of classes because of early marriage. Last year a thirteen year-old girl married and left school. Now she is a mother,” said the principal, highlighting the link between child marriages and dropping out of school in Yemen.
According to the National Womens Committee (NWC), child [...]

The change in the law came following the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in Essex. One of the two defendants in that case, James Savage, was 15 and could not be charged as an adult. The public outcry prompted a special session of the Legislature to change the law.
Vermont statutes list 12 crimes [...]

He said, he does not want to forgo his Internet address. The case is pending in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts.
Pickel said he believes his museum, no matter what it is named, will not take away from Fall River or Borden’s legacy. The visitors streaming through his door, he said, prove the demand.
Tens of thousands [...]

There are at least a few hundred cases reported where the Sudra and Dalit individuals were either murdered or permanently disabled by the upper caste to prevent them benefiting from education. There have been at least three-dozen cases reported from various parts of India in the past ten years where Dalits were blinded by the [...]

They will either get the green light to appeal the case to the Supreme Court of Canada on an expedited basis and continue the litigation or will get shut down and denied leave, paving the way for the Pan-Canadian Investors’ Committee to issue new paper and allow 1,430 retail investors to recover their money.
Retail ABCP [...]

The Supreme Court has yet to decide whether to take the case, but if it does, it could have ramifications for a complicated area of U.S. labor law.
At issue are rules that make it a crime for a company to hire illegal immigrants, yet simultaneously protect those same workers from retaliation for engaging in union [...]

The traditional law-enforcement tool of prosecution remains important, he says, because if the Mr Bigs of organised crime are not put away “people would lose confidence in the criminal justice system”.
“But whether it’s really effective [on its own] in reducing the harm organised crime causes if these people are still running business from prison . [...]

“Justice-enhancing changes demand comparative assessment, not any immaculate identification of the just society,” Sen said. Sen won the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics for his contributions to welfare economics. Sen pioneered the “capability approach” for measuring a citizen’s social well-being, and his work has been included in the United Nations Human Development Report. In her [...]

Democracy 21 is also keeping an eye on corporate events.
The watchdog groups are unhappy that convention partying is in high gear despite the new lobbying law and new House rules that were supposed to put more distance between lawmakers and lobbyists.
Earlier this month, the Sunlight Foundation released a list, compiled by the Washington lobbying firm [...]

Advocates for the disabled blame the backlog primarily on inadequate funding, a lack of administrative law judges to hear cases and a shortage of support staffers. Increased funding last year made it possible for the Tampa hearing office to increase its number of judges from 16 to 17, but the person hired for the job [...]