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DECEMBER 14, 2024

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Trk announced Friday that his office will resume operations in Venezuela. Trk’s office was forced to leave the country earlier this year following his statement on the enforced disappearance of human rights defender Roco San Miguel. Speaking at a Human Rights Council meeting, Trk stated: “The Office can play an important role between the institutions of the state and the people of the country.

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DECEMBER 14, 2024

Babylon Bee The Scripps National Spelling Bee has triggered a controversy after adopting the alternative spelling of “women” as permissible. Students will now be allowed to spell “women” as “womyn.” Parody and reality seem to have emerged given a past Babylon Bee skit (below). The new 2024-2025 school year study listsinclude the feminist term “womyn” as an acceptable alternate spelling for “women.” “Womyn,” however, has itse

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The human rights situation in Ukraine has worsened significantly as intensified hostilities and systematic aerial strikes target critical infrastructure, according to a report by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on Friday. The Sixth Interim Report on violations of international humanitarian and human rights law covered developments from June to November 2024, highlighting a sharp increase in civilian casualties and a deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.

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DECEMBER 14, 2024

University of Illinois Accounting Professor Li Zhang is under fire this week after warning students about their “unconscious and unintentional biases” against women and minorities before they completed their evaluations. The College Fix reported on the complaint after Professor Zhang warned students at the end of last semester that course evaluations can be biased against racial minorities and women.

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Speaker: Anne Post, CEO North America, Xakia Technologies

Do you know that 40% of U.S. Legal Departments now have a formal legal intake process? With that in mind, where does your legal department stand today? Many legal teams still struggle with a flood of incoming requests, leaving everyone overwhelmed and frustrated. Implementing a formal legal intake process can seem like an obstacle between the business and the legal department, but it doesn’t have to be!

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday announced a court-enforceable agreement with the city of Louisville, Kentucky, following a sweeping investigation into the Louisville Metro Government. The investigation was prompted by the 2020 police killing of Breonna Taylor and a 2023 DOJ report detailing a pattern of racial discrimination by the police force.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2024

A Georgia state judge on Friday shut down an effort by former Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro to undo his guilty plea in the states election interference case involving President-elect Donald Trump and his allies. Judge Scott McAfee of the Fulton County Superior Court denied Chesebros motion on multiple grounds, calling it [p]rocedurally defective in more ways than one.

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