Recently added articles from Human Rights:
An Agenda for the New President
Oct 01, 2008; ... When we first tossed around the idea of this issue last fall, we looked ahead to a time of opportunity, a time of hope when a new president could tum attention to muchneeded new priorities for the nation. Never did we imagine, even six months ago, the multitude of problems that would ...
Subject: Restoring U.S. Credibility on Human Rights
Oct 01, 2008; ... To: Preisdent Barack Obama From: John Shattuck Among the many challenges facing you from the time you take office will be how to restore U.S. credibility in the world. One way to do this will be to change the global perception that the United States is a human rights ...
Subject: Restoring and Reviving the Department of Justice
Oct 01, 2008; ... To: President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder From: Daniel Marcus Over the last eight years, the confidence and trust of the legal profession and the American public in the integrity and independence of the Department of Justice have been seriously undermined, while ...
Subject: Restoring Separation of Powers
Oct 01, 2008; ... To: President Barack Obama From: Erwin Chemerinsky During the Nixon presidency, the renowned historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. wrote a book titled, The Imperial Presidency (Houghton Mifflin, 1973), about the tremendous growth in unchecked presidential powers. Yet nothing in the ...
Subject: Your National Security Agenda
Oct 01, 2008; ... To: President Barack Obama From: Virginia Sloan and Becky Monroe In order to strengthen our national security, you must restore our commitment to the constitutional principles that have always made us safe and strong. Your national security agenda should include these priorities: ...
Subject: Immigration and American Values: Some Initial Steps for a New Administration
Oct 01, 2008; ... To: President Barack Obama From: Lucas Guttentag The treacherous debate over immigration was remarkably muted during the presidential campaign. But the system's failures are unchanged, and the need for reform more urgent than ever. Today's dysfunction has multiple causes ...
Subject: Religious Freedom and Church-State Separation
Oct 01, 2008; ... To: President Barack Obama From: C. Welton Gaddy Congratulations, Mr. President! At this moment you have more power than anyone else in the nation to encourage the American people to recommit themselves to the support and defense of the Constitution of the United States of ...
Subject: Civil Rights Agenda Recommendations for the New Administration
Oct 01, 2008; ... To: President Barack Obama From: Barbara R. Arnwine Many years of dedicated struggle and sacrifice by civil rights and voting rights activists culminated in your historic election as forty-fourth president of the United States. Yet, ironically as your administration assumes ...
Subject: What Women Need: A Policy Agenda for the New Administration
Oct 01, 2008; ... To: President Barack Obama From: Marcia D. Greenberger and Jocelyn F. Samuels The statistics are alarming. One in four girls drops out of high school, resulting in an average annual income that falls $9,100 below even the low wages earned by male high school dropouts. More than ...
Subject: Ending Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Oct 01, 2008; ... To: President Barack Obama From: Kate Kendell It is incredibly heartening to see that you understand that to improve the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, you must use your powerful voice and the authority and resources of the highest office in the ...
Subject: Public Education from Pre-Kindergarten through High School
Oct 01, 2008; ... To: President Barack Obama From: Cynthia G. Brown All children and youth in the United States need a high-quality education if they are to participate fully in the nation's future workforce-a workforce that faces intense global economic competition-and in their communities ....
Subject: Divided We Fail Leaders Urge Action on Health-Care Reform
Oct 01, 2008; ... To: President Barack Obama From: William D. Novelli As leaders of organizations representing well over fifty million American consumers, workers, CEOs of the nation's largest companies, and small business owners, we believe that bipartisan health-care reform is critical to a ...
Subject: Making the Economy Work Again
Oct 01, 2008; ... To: President Barack Obama From: David Madland Americans are ready for change-ready for new leadership, ready for bold ideas, and ready for an economic agenda that strengthens working families, promotes sustainable growth, spurs American innovations, and establishes global ...
Taking Stock of Student Rights: Forty Years after Tinker
Jul 01, 2008; ... Next February marks the fortieth anniversary of the decision in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969), the high watermark in U.S. Supreme Court recognition of the rights of students in school. It is an appropriate time to take stock of the rights of ...
Student Speech The Enduring Greatness of Tinker
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Supreme Court's decision in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969), did for the ideal of freedom in America's public schools what Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), did for the ideal of equality. It made a core value of the Bill of ...
A Conversation with Mary Beth Tinker
Jul 01, 2008; ... Mary Beth Tinker, our Human Rights Hero for this issue, was recently interviewed by Stephen J. Wermiel, co-chair of the Human Rights editorial board. For background on Ms. Tinker, see the Human Rights Hero column on the back cover. Human Rights: What's the state of student free speech or ...
Student Journalism Confronts a New Generation of Legal Challenges
Jul 01, 2008; ... While public school administrators now largely understand that the First Amendment prohibits them from forcing student journalists to withhold or revise disfavored editorial content, that understanding has merely made censorship less overt-not, regrettably, less frequent. Censorship 2.0 ...
Student Privacy versus Campus Security: An Overstated Conflict
Jul 01, 2008; ... Some commentators viewed the April 2007 shootings that killed thirty-two people at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) as illustrative of a direct conflict between student privacy and campus security. Their claim was that privacy protection laws had prevented ...
Abstinence-only Education: Violating Students' Rights to Health Information
Jul 01, 2008; ... Access to accurate information that is needed to protect one's health is an important human right. Medically accurate information is critical to preventing and treating health conditions, and few would dispute that people should have the knowledge they need to avoid risks and make wise de- ...
The Need to Address Equal Educational Opportunities for Women and Girls
Jul 01, 2008; ... While all students are vulnerable to assaults on their rights, girls and women face a distinct set of challenges. This article examines three trends illustrating obstacles to an equal education for girls and women. The first section addresses the current popularity of sex-segregated programs in ...