Kim Thuy Seelinger quoted in New Vision, August 26, 2015
“Most gender desks in police stations are manned by unqualified personnel who in most cases are reassigned to other duties, leaving gender violence cases unattended.” she said.
Local support key to achieving justice in sexual violence cases, claim researchers
Kim Thuy Seelinger quoted in The Guardian, August 26, 2015
“There is so much focus on what the international criminal court (ICC) is or is not doing about sexual violence committed as a war crime, crime against humanity, or act of genocide,” said Kim Thuy Seelinger, director of the sexual violence programme. “But it’s the nurse at the county clinic or the rural police officer who can actually play a central role in the pursuit of justice, even when the crime violates international law.”
China cuts interest rates as ripple effects of “Black Monday” continue
Alan Auerbach interviewed on KQED-FM, August 26, 2015
“The government of China is in a funny position. On the one hand, China has a very rapidly growing economy, and in many respects, a very capitalist economy, and yet it has a government trying to maintain control as the old Communist government did.… And sometimes that comes in conflict with a normal working of an economy.”
Professors sharply divided on birthright citizenship
John Yoo quoted in The College Fix, August 25, 2015
“The constitutional text flatly states that children born in the U.S. are citizens, without reference to whether their parents are aliens or not.”
UC Berkeley’s Policy Advocacy Clinic aims to tackle issues concerning community
Jeffrey Selbin and Stephanie Campos-Bui in The Daily Californian, August 24, 2015
Faculty director Jeffrey Selbin wanted to address larger, systemic issues that trickle down to many of the clinic’s clients by providing students with opportunities to research and advocate for marginalized communities.
“A lot of people or families with youth involved in the juvenile justice system are more often than not people of color or living in poverty,” Campos-Bui said. “So handing bills over to kids and their parents (make them) stuck with a huge amount of debt.”
Court says the FTC can slap companies for getting hacked
Christopher Hoofnagle quoted in Wired, August 24, 2015
“The law has always imposed responsibility on companies for the care of their customers. When you’re in the restaurant you have to be protected against slips and falls or food-borne illness,” says Hoofnagle. “Data is just something new that companies have to protect if they want to bear the benefits of collecting it.”
On citizenship, the ‘birthers’ are right
John Yoo writes for National Review, August 22, 2015
The text, structure, and history of the Constitution all show that the 14th Amendment recognizes the citizenship of any child born on American territory.
California bill aims to warn consumers about recording TVs
Jim Dempsey quoted in The Washington Post, August 20, 2015
Potential uses for the information could go “way above and beyond advertising,” said Jim Dempsey.… The information collected could still be used to make psychological or cultural assessments of people for insurance or customer relations companies, he said…. “It could determine what kind of offers you get made.”
Lessons from Tianjin
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2015
Because the disaster occurred in one of China’s largest cities, with a population of 15 million, it should provoke a necessary deeper consideration of subpar worker safety conditions throughout Chinese industry.
Book excerpt: American exceptionalism at its worst
Eric Stover, Alexa Koenig, and Victor Peskin write for Alameda Magazine, Sept. 2015
By late summer 2003, Abu Ghraib was packed with nearly 3,000 prisoners. Many of the detainees were Iraqi civilians who had been picked up in random military sweeps or at checkpoints for “suspicious activities.” Most were men, but there were also women, adolescents, and even children as young as ten, the majority of whom were deemed not a threat to society but who were not immediately released due to orders from above.