Human Rights back issues from April 2008:
Serving the Veterans Who Have Served Us
Apr 01, 2008; ... Veterans law is complicated. The statutory and regulatory framework governing veterans benefits has matured over many years and can be confusing to the uninitiated. In 1988, the Veterans Judicial Review Act, Pub. L. No. 100-687, resulted in the creation of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans ...
Child Custody and the SCRA: My Child or My Country?
Apr 01, 2008; ... I am not an avid newspaper reader, preferring to be informed about the state of affairs by watching the CBS Evening News. However, I was recently drawn to a photograph in a newspaper of a teary-eyed American solider holding on to her child as if for dear life. The accompanying article told the ...
After the Battles: The Veterans' Battle with the VA
Apr 01, 2008; ... Imagine if our legal system were set up so that plaintiffs were forced to assemble, file, and argue their own lawsuits, and that attorneys could only be paid for their assistance after the initial case was lost (which, predictably, most would be). This unbelievable situation in reality is the ...
Removing the Target: Protecting Military Service Members and Veterans from Financial Predators
Apr 01, 2008; ... The nation's rallying cry in recent years has been "Support the troops!" While America's leaders unanimously embrace this sentiment, the depth of our actual commitment to the welfare of service members and veterans is less clear. Headlines proclaiming negligent medical care, never-ending ...
Compromised Care: The Limited Availability and Questionable Quality of Health Care for Recent Veterans
Apr 01, 2008; ... The assumption of an all-encompassing giveaway by the American government to military veterans is patently incorrect. Veterans are not all entitled to federal benefits, and those who are often find that securing the assistance that they are due is a daunting challenge, rife with bureaucratic ...
Ensuring the Employment Rights of America's Citizen-Soldiers
Apr 01, 2008; ... Responding to the end of the Cold War and the restructuring of the U.S. military, in 1994 the U.S. Congress enacted a statute to encourage noncareer military service. It prohibited employment discrimination against people because of their military service and minimized potential harm to civilian ...
Institutional Inequality: Denying Benefits to Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Veterans
Apr 01, 2008; ... Virtually all veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces are entitled to military benefits of some kind. What each service member receives varies based on a variety of factors: length of service, reason for discharge, and discharge characterization, for example. An estimated one million lesbian, gay, and ...
The NCCU Veterans Law Clinic: Students Learning to Help Veterans
Apr 01, 2008; ... The North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law is part of a historically black college and was founded in 1940. Always committed to providing opportunity, the Law School has continued to grow over the decades. In 1944 it admitted its first women. In 1965 Caucasian students were ...
David Addlestone
Apr 01, 2008; ... It is particularly appropriate to celebrate as a Human Rights Hero a person who dedicated his entire professional career to vindicating the rights of the often scorned warriors who fought the unpopular American war in Vietnam. David Addlestone began his service to these warriors while they were ...
A Conversation with Judge Nancy Gertner
Apr 01, 2008; ... Judge Nancy Gertner of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts was recently interviewed by Steve Wermiel, co-chair of the Human Rights editorial board, after she had been selected to receive the 2008 Thurgood Marshall Award of the American Bar Association's Section of Individual Rights and ...
PTSD: Doubly Disabling for Female Vets
Apr 01, 2008; ... Female veterans currently number more than 1.7 million, or 7 percent, of all veterans in the United States today. But with women comprising almost 15 percent of active duty personnel in today's military, the number of female veterans could double within the next five years. Neither ...
The New Suspect Class: Tragically, Our Veterans
Apr 01, 2008; ... One of the most obscure discrimi- nation issues exist- ing today relates to our country's treatment of its veterans, a group that hard- ly qualifies under the legal definition of a "suspect class" as currently con- ceived. Nevertheless, it remains a fact that veterans are the most prominent ...