OHCHR, IOM, UNHCR and WHO joint press release: the rights and health of refugees, migrants and stateless must be protected in COVID-19 response

In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, we are all vulnerable. The virus has shown that it does not discriminate – but many refugees, those forcibly displaced, the stateless and migrants are at heightened risk.  Three-quarters of the world’s refugees and many migrants are hosted in developing regions where health systems are already overwhelmed and under-capacitated.  Many live in overcrowded camps, settlements, makeshift shelters…

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Radar safety system protects only 7 per cent of UK smart motorways

The UK government has pledged to make smart motorways safer by rolling out a radar detection system within the next three years, but New Scientist can reveal that just 7 per cent of the roads are protected by the measure today Read More https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237239-radar-safety-system-protects-only-7-per-cent-of-uk-smart-motorways/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Views: 0

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A Substantive Due Process Challenge to the War on Drugs

[ad_1] Substantive Due Process Analysis of the Incarceration of Drug Offenders A. Framework In Washington v. Glucksberg, Chief Justice Rehnquist described the framework for substantive due process analysis: Our established method of substantive-due-process analysis has two primary features: First, we have regularly observed that the Due Process Clause specially protects those fundamental rights and liberties…