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FAO Treaties, Laws and Regulations database

For over 40 years legislation on food and agriculture was collected and disseminated by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) through a publication called Food and Agricultural Legislation . Since the advent of the digital in formation age, the FAO Legal Office has taken up the...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 12-09-2010
World AIDS Day - December 1

December 1 st marks World AIDS Day , commemorated annually since 1988. Events will take place around the world . The day is seen as one promoting human rights, and the campaign slogan is universal access and human rights . There is a major rights campaign under the banner of Light for Rights . According...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 11-30-2010
The European Convention on Human Rights turns 60

The European Convention on Human rights turned 60 this month. In celebration of this event, the European Court of Human Rights has devoted a page to demonstrating the Convention in video and pictures. The page even has illustrations of the specific articles of the convention, such as the right to a fair...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 11-18-2010
The Cost of Your Halloween Candy

A recent blog posting on website of the International Vision Collective , dedicated to promoting universal values awareness, tells us of child worker exploitation in the cocoa-growing industry in Ghana and the Ivory Coast by the Hershey Company , the largest American candy producer and a purveyor of...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 11-03-2010
Database trials for International Law, Human Rights, Tax, Tax Treaties, and eBooks

We have free trials right now for: Brill International Law & Human Rights / eBooks bundle – through November 19 - IP Access Trade Law Guide – through October - IP Access BNA Tax Treaties – through October - IP Access IBFD - International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (foreign and...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 10-06-2010
Raoul Wallenberg Day

October 5 th marks Raoul Wallenberg Day . This is the day he was awarded United States citizenship in 1981, posthumously. (The second person to receive this honor after Winston Churchill) . Part of 15th Street, SW in Washington, D.C., the section where the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is located...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 10-05-2010
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights files first sexual orientation-based discrimination case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

The Inter-American Commission on Human Right s has filed the first sexual orientation-based discrimination case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The IACHR published the following press release : IACHR TAKES CASE INVOLVING CHILE TO THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT Washington, D.C., September 20...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 10-04-2010
Religion, Race, Rights

A recent arrival in the Foreign and International Law Collection is Religion, Race, Rights: Landmarks in the History of Modern Anglo-American Law (Oxford/Portland,OR: Hart, 2010). Written by Eve Darian Smith , Professor of Global & International Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 09-01-2010

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