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Bolivia Wins a Rightful Victory on the Coca Leaf

Creates a Positive Example for Modernizing the UN Drug Conventions The Plurinational State of Bolivia can celebrate a rightful victory, as the country can become formally a party again to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, but without being bound by its unjust and unrealistic requirement that “coca leaf…
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This week in Immigration

Removals Remain the Starkest Measure of Immigration Enforcement  As a new IPC fact sheet explains, the number of removals has risen dramatically over the past decade—from an average of 180,000 in the years immediately preceding the September 11 attacks, to nearly 400,000 during each year of the Obama administration. To…
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A Household Worker’s Dirty Little Secret

International Labor Conference report highlights lack of protections for 56.2 million domestic workers world wide More than 56.2 million men and women (80 per cent is women) throughout the world were employed as household workers in 2010, according to a report released recently by the International Labour Conference (ILC).  The…
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Immigrant women’s advocates condemn new attack on birthright citizenship

Legislation introduced by Rep. King would target immigrant families The National Coalition for Immigrant Women’s Rights (NCIWR) condemned new federal legislation introduced by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) that seeks to deny 14th amendment rights to citizenship and targets immigrant families. The bill (HR-140) would deny birthright citizenship to children of some immigrant parents. “Immigrant…
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