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Friday, October 24, 2014
Campus Violence, Part One
In 2011, Vice President Biden delivered his "Dear Colleague" letter to college campuses across the nation. The letter reminded campus administrators of their obligations to protect and provide services to those who experience gender discrimination, including relationship violence. The letter referenced specific protections and obligations incumbent upon colleges and universities to make known to students, including the school's resources and processes in the event a student experiences violence. Subsequently, the Department of Education announced the investigation of over 50 campuses that may have inadequate campus responses to gender violence. Non-compliance can range from deficient web posting of Title IX resources to failure to provide fair hearings for sexual assault survivors seeking remedies through their schools.
3900 campus sexual assaults were reported in 2012. Many schools saw an increase in reporting which is attributed to more responsive efforts on the part of colleges and universities following announcement of the government investigations including more accurate reporting of campus crime. Nonetheless, sexual assault victims continue to report disrespectful hearings and ineffective resources in both finding help as well as suitable remedies through the university systems.
Student participants in university hearings more often than not describe dissatisfaction with the pre-hearing process and the process itself. Hearings officers may not understand violence and others who dismiss the seriousness of an assault. Same sex students and students of color have complaints that echo victims' complaints of negative experience when they engage the criminal justice system. Stereotypes can permeate the process or enhance of distrust of the process. While many students fail to report sexual assault, under reporting is particularly high with students of color and and gender variant students.
Part two of this post will address recent discussions on how to address campus violence in ways that respect and are meaningful for all targets of campus violence.
October 24, 2014 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, October 23, 2014
A Human Rights Lab
More and more social entrepreneurs and innovators seek to break out of the boxes of established institutions by creating "labs," that promise creative spaces, relatively less hierarchy, engagement with technology, and the possibility of social transformation. Building on this trend, in 2013, the United Nations Development Programme offices in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States established the first-of-its-kind Human Rights Lab.
According to its website, HuRiLab "is a platform to promote innovative concepts into the Rule of Law, Human Rights, and Justice programming. We seek to facilitate collaboration with institutions and youth/ civil society organizations in order to develop more responsive and effective projects that can address persistent challenges posed by vulnerability, marginalization, and exclusion."
HuRiLab's on-line "idea box" is a place where human rights activists can initiate dialogue about their nascent ideas for transformative social change. Projects to date include several focused on disabilities and one of particular interest to lawyers, "How can innovation and technology help deliver legal aid more effectively?"
Several of HuRiLab's post-graduate fellows are addressing this access to justice issue during their fellowship year, by setting up access to Skype consultations, for example, and developing the use of mobile tools to access legal information. The fellows' "microblogs" chronicle their successes and challenges during the year.
The human rights lab model has much to recommend it as a source for both ideas and implementation. As U.S. advocates work closely with local human rights commissions, and continue the long struggle to establish a national human rights body, perhaps we should also be borrowing a page from HuRiLab and consciously developing new approaches to encourage human rights innovation.
October 23, 2014 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Human Rights Conference Round-up: Education, Immigration, and Children's Rights
It's conference season, and human rights issues are the focus for many upcoming events. Here are three that are worth a look:
On November 6-7, 2014, the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) of Northeastern University School of Law (NUSL) will host its annual Human Rights Institute at NUSL in Boston. This year's Institute, titled Rethinking Education Reform: A Human Rights Perspective, will analyze and evaluate the combination of initiatives known as "public education reform." It will do so with an eye toward identifying policies that will help promote and support the human right to education (alongside all other human rights) for all U.S. school children. The 2014 Institute will focus on three themes: (1) the charter school movement and the broader trend toward the private provision of public education services; (2) the emergence of "no excuses/zero tolerance" discipline policies resulting in the exclusion of students from school; and (3) the continued expansion of high-stakes testing as the principal means of motivating and measuring educational achievement in public schools, alongside related efforts to further standardize public school curricula. For more information and to register, click here.
The 20th Annual Herbert Rubin and Justice Rose Luttan Rubin International Law Symposium will be held on November 6, 2014, at NYU Law School. The Symposium, entitled "The Human Rights of Migrants: From Treaty to Reality," will examine the potency of international human rights law within the United States. In particular, it will focus on how international human rights perspectives could help the U.S. and other nations reframe national immigration debates to find more humane and functional societal solutions than those currently in place. More information is available here.
Finally, for a comparative perspective, check out Conference 25 Years CRC, part of a multi-day celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Children's Rights Convention in Leidin, The Netherlands, from November 17 - 20, 2014. As part of the festivities, Leidin Law School will host the two-day conference, November 17-18, bringing together children's rights academics, professionals and students from the four corners of the globe, for a program full of discussion and reflection on the past and future impact of the CRC on topical issues of the children's rights agenda. The week's events will also include the Leiden Children's Rights Summit on Universal Children's Day, 20 November 2014, the Leiden Freedom Lecture, an international moot court competition on children's rights for students, and the inaugural lecture of Prof Julia Sloth-Nielsen on the 17th of November 2014. Among the keynote speakers is Bernadine Dohrn, retired clinical professor at Northwestern University and champion of U.S. children's rights and human rights. More information is available here.
October 22, 2014 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
New Resource on Inter-American Court of Human Rights
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) Project of the Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review has released its Inter-American Court of Human Rights Database. This freely-available database produced by the editors and staff of the IACHR Project under the supervision of Professor Cesare Romano allows users to search Inter-American Court decisions by case name, country, and topic. Advanced search features include the ability to search by specific violation of various Inter-American Conventions.
Search results include a brief description of the case, information on judges, and violations found by the Inter-American Court. When available, the database includes a link to a detailed case summary which includes case facts, procedural history, merits, and state compliance with the Inter-American Court's judgment. To date, 74 detailed case summaries are available.
October 21, 2014 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, October 20, 2014
Next Steps in Detroit: UN Special Rapporteurs Vindicate The Rights to Water and Human Dignity
On October 20, 2014, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing and the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water issued a joint statement at the close of their informal visit to Detroit,. While there, the two UN officials investigated the impacts of the city's aggressive policies of shutting off water to 27,000 individuals unable to pay their water bills.
According to the Rapporteurs' joint statement, "[d]isconnections of water due to non-payment are permissible if it can be shown that the resident is able to pay but is not paying. When people are genuinely unable to pay the bill, it is the State's obligation to provide urgent measures, including financial assistance, a specially low tariff or subsidies, to ensure access to essential water and sanitation for all. Not doing so amounts to a human rights violation."
Mindful of the fact that the US has not ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the two Rapporteurs framed their concerns around the US's binding obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racism, as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For example, the joint statement pointed out that access to water is a prerequisite to achieving the "right to life" and dignity guaranteed under the ICCPR, and noted that residents who were shut off had no recourse to lawyers to challenge such determinations. Further, the Rapporteurs raised questions about racial impact of the cut-offs, in light of US obligations under CERD, and called for a federal investigation of these disparate racial impacts.
Interestingly, the joint statement stresses that the responsibility for ensuring the human rights to water and adequate housing must be implemented at every level of government. The Special Rapporteurs' recommendations are leveled not only at Detroit, but also at the State of Michigan and federal authorities. For example, the UN officials recommend that the state and federal government utilize their spending powers to condition funding on the city's provision of adequate water to residents. The City of Detroit, they recommend, should have in place emergency services for those who are cut off. And expanding on a recommendation made by the Special Rapporteur on the right to water in 2011, the two officials assert that the United States Government, the State of Michigan and the City of Detroit should adopt a mandatory federal minimum standard on affordability for water and sanitation.
Though the Special Rapporteurs visited the city at the behest of civil society organizations, they met with the Mayor and City Council of Detroit as well as members of civil society. Last summer, Michigan Senator John Conyers reached out to President Obama and the Secretary of HHS to seek greater federal oversight and involvement. However, to date the federal presence has been felt most keenly in the form of the U.S. bankruptcy judge who has ruled that Detroit residents have no right to water, and that the cut-offs can continue. The Special Rapporteurs' statement took pains to point out that federal courts, like the other branches, are also bound by international human rights obligations.
October 20, 2014 | Permalink | Comments (0)
The Fundamental Nature of Title VII
Professor Maria Linda Ontiveros of the University of San Francisco School of Law has just posted a new article, The Fundamental Nature of Title VII, on SSRN. In the article, Professor Ontiveros models the relevance of human rights law to domestic legal analysis, arguing that the treatment of employment discrimination under human rights law should be a factor informing the understanding and construction of the "fundamental nature" of Title VII. The article is slated for publication in the Ohio State Law Journal. Here is the Abstract:
October 20, 2014 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, October 17, 2014
Affirmative Action in South Africa
On our sister Human Rights blog, the Oxford Human Rights Hub, Barrister Andrew Wheeler recently published an interesting analysis of South African Police Service v. Solidarity obo Barnard, a decision of the South African Constitutional Court. The specific question considered by the court was, essentially, what measures constitute affirmative action and what standard applies to determine whether someone has violated Rule 9(2) of the South African Constitution, which specifies that affirmative action is permitted under South African law.
Comparative examination of affirmative action is not foreign in the U.S. In her concurrence in Grutter v. Bollinger, Justice Ginsburg noted that affirmative action is an accepted concept under international law and under the laws of many other countries. In recent years, affirmative action cases before the Supreme Court have often been accompanied by amicus briefs detailing the ways in which peer nations employ affirmative action measures, from quotas to preferences. This new South African case extends, and perhaps complicates, the comparative jurisprudence in this hotly contested area.
October 17, 2014 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Vanita Gupta and Human Rights
Vanita Gupta, the newly appointed (and soon to be formally nominated) Acting Director of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, will likely have an important role to play in the upcoming Universal Periodic Review of the U.S. conducted under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council. Past Civil Rights chiefs and staffs have often served as spokespersons before UN bodies monitoring US compliance with human rights norms, and have contributed to civil society dialogues before and after the reviews. Happily, Vanita Gupta is one of a new generation of domestic civil rights lawyers who will bring a deep understanding of human rights to the position.
Gupta has worked on human rights internationally, consulting with the Open Society Institute, for example. But she has also framed domestic advocacy in human rights terms. She has served on the U.S. Advisory Board for Human Rights Watch, contributing to that organization's attention to domestic human rights violations. And earlier in her career, in 2008, she authored an article entitled "Blazing a Path from Civil Rights to Human Rights: The Pioneering Career of Gay McDougall," published in Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States, which I co-edited with Cynthia Soohoo and Catherine Albisa. In that piece, which reproduced an in-depth interview with Gay McDougall, Gupta noted that McDougall "has fundamentally changed the way U.S. civil rights, activists, and lawyers engage with human rights both domestically and globally," blazing a path for "countless civil rights lawyers in the United States to expand the struggle both in terms of what rights are as well as where and how rights can be affirmed and promoted." Gupta's own record of work on racial justice, immigrant rights, criminal justice reform and other critical U.S. human rights issues exemplifies such a path-breaking approach.
Vanita Gupta's appointment and pending nomination have already been praised in many quarters, crossing political divides. U.S. human rights lawyers and activists also have reason to be encouraged by this nomination.
October 16, 2014 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Civil Debate
Judges, lawyers and others in the profession have been troubled for at least the past decade over the decline in lawyers' civil behavior. Judges were among the first to observe this phenomenon. Lawyers appearing before them were becoming more rude to both the judges and opposing counsel. Lawyers reported similarly disrespectful behavior in professional interactions with opposing counsel. Commentators speculate as to causes of this behavior. In their book, The Good Lawyer, Seeking Quality in the Practice of Law, authors Linder and Levitt report the opinion that the more impersonal the practice becomes, the less civil lawyer behavior can be. When electronic communication replaces in person discussion, there are fewer consequences to offensive behavior. Relative anonynimity can lead to a decrease in civil boundaries. Without the consequences of confrontation or professional and social ostracism that can result when lawyers behave badly in a small community, there is less incentive for the so inclined to incorporate respectful boundaries into their daily discourse.
So it was with interest that I followed the debate that resulted from the Ford Foundation's publication of responses to its posed question "When Markets Lead, Will Justice Follow?" On October 8th, Cathy Albisa, executive director of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) wrote a response posted on this blog. The response, in the words of one commentator, "is not an attempt to target or bash Ford Foundation. Instead, it is a carefully calibrated response to the foundation's position." In an age when civility can be set aside during debate, Ms. Albisa's response is a reminder that those who disagree on important social and humanitarian issues can do so through civil debate.
October 16, 2014 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
New Human Rights Casebook Focuses on Advocacy in the U.S.
Appropriate for introductory and advanced seminars, as well as clinical and other experiential offerings, the materials engage students on a remarkable range of issues, including immigration, rights of indigenous peoples, counterterrorism and human rights, disparities in access to health care, and the right to housing, while also exploring fundamental issues of federalism, sovereignty, judicial review and legal ethics.
October 15, 2014 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Upcoming Human Rights Conferences
This year marks the This year is the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children's Rights Connect and NewTactics.org is hosting an online tactical dialogue, Improving Access to Justice for Children and Teens from October 13th to 17th, 2014.
The conversation sponsors make the following observations:
"...[C]hildren often face additional obstacles to those encountered by adults because of their dependent status and lack of standing, the potential conflict of interest with their legal representative(s), the lack of information that is available to them, or simply because they are not taken seriously when they need to seek remedies because their rights are violated.
Making justice systems accessible for children takes work at the local, national, regional and international levels, and needs to include children's opinions in the process. In addition to challenges, we will discuss ideas for facilitating children's access to justice, such as collective complaints, positive representation of children by NGOs or others and protection of the identities of child victims."
Here is more information for those who wish to join the conversations. HRAH Blogger Jonathan Todres will be one of the conversation leaders.
Rutgers University-New Brunswick will host a one-day conference on the consequences of rising income inequality. The conference, Income Inequality and U.S. Politics and Culture, ers will include speakers such as Lisa Miller, Helaine Olin, Vanessa Williamson, Mike Konczal and Beverly Moran. The conference announcements states:
Since the 1970s, the United States has witnessed a sharp divergence in economic fortunes, as the incomes of the wealthiest Americans have exploded while middle-class incomes have largely stagnated. This conference considers the effects of growing income inequality on the worldviews, policy ideas, and institutional practices of major U.S. political parties, electoral campaigns, and social movements.
The conference will be held from 10-4 on October 24, 2014. More information may be obtained here.
October 14, 2014 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, October 13, 2014
A Human Rights Code of Conduct
For the past three years, I have been directing the Local Human Rights Lawyering Project at the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law. The Project aims to normalize international human rights law at the local level by incorporating the use of the international human rights framework into the everyday work of legal aid attorneys in the U.S. The Project has a goal of not only integrating human rights arguments into advocacy, but also using the human rights framework to create shifts in internal office systems and staff-client relationships at legal aid organizations. I want to share with you what our office has done to this end, as well as what Maryland Legal Aid, one of our Project Partners, has done.
In our initial discussions with legal aid offices about integrating human rights into office systems and the client-staff relationship, it became clear that there was a need to both articulate the specific human rights principles that could apply and clearly explain how they might apply in the legal aid context. We wanted to focus on simple, yet ambitious and aspirational principles, such as treating all people with respect and as an equal at all times. Moreover, we wanted the principles to apply to everyone involved in legal aid work: clients, attorneys, administrative staff, supervisors, interns, etc.—the legal aid office as a whole. In the end, it seemed that a draft code of conduct might be the best way to practically lay all of this out. Using a number of social work codes of ethics which integrate and/or reflect human rights principles as models, I drafted the following, which I called 'Human Rights Principles for Legal Aid':
1. Human Dignity
Treat all people with respect, not as a gesture of charity but as an act of justice. Respect the inherent worth of each individual, each family and their communities. Be patient, kind, and on time. Listen with empathy. Communicate with understanding and honesty. Keep private information private.
2. Participation and Self-Determination
Meaningfully involve clients in identifying problems, goals, planning and case strategy. Empower clients to tell their own story and advocate for themselves. Clearly and simply explain the law and process, clients' rights, the role of Legal Aid, and the role of the client.
3. Equality
Respect all others as your equal. Recognize strength in diversity. Take responsibility for discrimination based on your own beliefs, including but not limited to discrimination based on mental health, sexual orientation, homelessness, education level, age, political opinion, culture, source of income, and place of origin. Work to end all discriminatory acts in your office, as well as in your community.
4. Solidarity
Foster teamwork among clients and staff. Constantly challenge the traditional power structure of the client-staff relationship. Recognize your strengths and your client's strengths and invest those strengths in shared responsibilities. Stand with your clients and fellow staff members to fight poverty and expand rights for the most vulnerable.
5. Innovation
Pursue creative remedies towards shared goals. Litigation is only one option among many. Ask what more you can do to counsel, educate, and advocate for your clients and their communities. Encourage your client to use other tools including community education, organizing, legislation and civic participation. Consider using international and regional mechanisms such as special rapporteurs, United Nations treaty-body monitoring committees and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
While discussing these draft principles with my colleagues, our Advisory Board, and our legal aid project partners, it became clear that thinking about human rights principles and office behavior could shift dramatically during the course of the conversation. For example, in one conversation I had, an advocate went from thinking that there was no reason to include the principle of human dignity because it was too obvious, to seeing that principle as the key part of the whole document. It seemed that involving staff members in the process of discussing the human rights principles and being involved in drafting the written code might be just as important as the final product.
In 2012, Maryland Legal Aid decided to draft their own human rights code and dedicated their yearly all-staff human rights training day to the process. During that training, staff from each office broke into small groups and went through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to pull out key human rights and language that they thought were most important to the conduct of Maryland Legal Aid staff towards clients. An organization-wide subcommittee was later formed which compiled all of the notes from the all-staff training and eventually developed the Maryland Legal Aid Guiding Principles for Staff-Client Relationships. That document was also shared with clients for input, and once it was finalized, it was turned into a poster that now hangs in Maryland Legal Aid offices across the state.
Last year, the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law also developed a human rights code that guides our interactions and work. The Center is much smaller than Maryland Legal Aid and our staff members are all very familiar with human rights framework on the whole. Therefore, we were able to sit down together and in a single afternoon we put together a draft, which we then reviewed with students, faculty and colleagues at American University Washington College of Law. We finalized our guiding human rights principles document late last year and it is now posted in our offices and on our website. We also periodically review the principles at staff meetings and when we face big decisions regarding staffing or outside conflicts. For us, this process underlined the fact that we should not only advocate for the application and expansion of human rights law, but also practice applying human rights principles to daily decision-making and interpersonal relationships, to truly be a human rights attorney.
I am sharing this with you all because I think this has been a great exercise for us and for Maryland Legal Aid. This could be a great process for students, as well as other offices. For more information on the human rights principles above and a comparison of the human principles to the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct, please see Section 3.6 of our Human Rights in the U.S. Handbook for Legal Aid Attorneys.
October 13, 2014 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, October 10, 2014
Sustainable Development Goals and U.S. Human Rights
By Risa E. Kaufman, Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute
Late September was a busy time at UN headquarters in New York. The 69th Session of the UN General Assembly opened on September 16, bringing together the world's leaders for discussion of such heady topics as global terrorism, nuclear disarmament and the prevention of armed conflict. Also on the agenda was discussion of the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. It's a conversation that U.S. human rights advocates should pay attention to.
The SDGs will replace the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were adopted by the UN back in 2000 to alleviate global poverty. The MDGs, which expire in September 2015, have accomplished a great deal, by some measures halving the number of people in the world living in extreme poverty and improving access to clean water, health care and education. But they have fallen short in other areas and been roundly criticized by many international human rights advocates and organizations for ignoring the interrelated nature of rights and failing to address systemic barriers and underlying inequities and disparities.
Expiration of the MDGs has inspired a robust conversation within the human rights community about what a more universal and holistic set of goals to eradicate poverty might look like. Groups including the Center for Economic and Social Rights, the Center for Reproductive Rights and CIVICUS have formed a post-2015 Human Rights Caucus and developed a human rights "litmus test" for the SDGs. The Caucus calls for the SDGs to align with, and explicitly reference, relevant human rights standards; secure the full spectrum of rights; combat inequality and commit to end discrimination; and support the human rights of women and girls. In addition, the Caucus calls for the SDGs to be premised on universality, indivisibility and interdependence; to ensure transparency and meaningful participation of all people; and to ensure human rights accountability of all actors, including in the private sector.
Civil society, including many international human rights NGOs, have been active participants in the initial conversations about the post-2015 development agenda, including through participation in Rio +20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development which took place in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In July 2014, building off of the outcomes from Rio +20, the Open Working Group for Sustainable Development Goals issued a Proposal, which is intended as a starting point for the state-level discussions on the SDGs that will take place over the course of the coming year. But now negotiation and drafting of the final goals rests with the member countries of the UN, in what will largely be a political process.
What does this all mean for the U.S. human rights community? While the content and text of the SDGs won't be final until September 2015, there appears to be fairly broad consensus that they will be premised on the understanding of universality. The goals will apply to developing and developed countries alike. Thus, the United States will be accountable for achieving the goals to the same extent as all other countries. And while they may not explicitly reference human rights, if the Open Working Group's Proposal is any indication, they are likely to address a more comprehensive set of issues than the MDGs, including access to justice, inequality within and among countries, and climate change. So, it's an issue worth following, and indeed deserving of some deep thinking. Just as U.S. advocates are developing creative approaches to hold the U.S. accountable for its international human rights treaty commitments, we should consider, too, how to make the SDGs real and meaningful close to home.
October 10, 2014 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, October 9, 2014
De Facto Imprisonment and the Right to a Speedy Trial
by Brian Howe
There is not much available in the way of a comprehensive drafting history for the US Bill of Rights. It is sometimes difficult or impossible to divine the specific intent of the framers when it comes to any particular clause. You have to think, though, that when the right to speedy trial was inserted in the Sixth Amendment, Kalief Browder's case was the kind of case the framers had in mind.
October 9, 2014 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
"Where Markets Lead, Will Justice Follow?": A Response to the Ford Foundation
On October 1, the Ford Foundation published a Ford Forum focused on the question: "Where Markets Lead, Will Justice Follow?" The Foundation asked eight "changemakers" -- including Raymond Offenheiser of Oxfam America and Judith Samuelson of the Aspen Institute -- to reflect on this question and circulated their essays widely via e-mail and the web. Other commentators have also published their analyses.
Cathy Albisa, Executive Director of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, offers her critique of, and reflections on, Ford's question here:
The Ford Foundation posed the question "Where Markets Lead, Will Justice Follow?" to leaders in their fields. Their responses varied in how they framed the market, the role of government, and the need for public goods. But examining the question seems as important as reflecting on the answer. Why should markets lead? Markets are inherently undemocratic. Markets, as noted by some of the commentators, are only for those with the money to participate in them. And even if almost everyone participates in some aspect of the market, they remain profoundly undemocratic as your "vote" grows or shrinks depending on the amount of money you have. While we know democracy alone does not guarantee human rights, democracy remains an essential part of their character and practice, in particular given the centrality of the human right to participation in the systems, institutions and decision-making that determine basic rights. Is it then not the case that if markets lead in arenas that demand democratic processes, justice has already been compromised?
Amartya Sen famously wrote "to be generically against markets would be almost as odd as being generically against conversations between people," arguing that people will always exchange goods and services. I believe this is likely to be true, and probably a good thing. But the evidence does not support the premise that markets consistently distribute those goods and services in an optimal way. On the contrary, there are profoundly important markets that do anything but that. Healthcare is a market – albeit a heavily subsidized one – in the United States that allows thousands to die due to lack of care while costing more than publicly financed systems with better outcomes. Our private healthcare financing system has perverse incentives to deny care, although clearly the goal of a healthcare sector should be to provide care. Care and profit are desperately at odds in a private insurance system. Housing is a profoundly important market to our economy – yet we have three times as many empty homes as homeless people. And these are but a few of the market arenas in which human rights are seriously at risk. Clearly something is amiss.
The questions we ask are often more important than the answers. They point to the paths we allow ourselves to consider and guide our thinking. Because markets are no more than vehicles towards other ends – profit, efficiency, growth, distribution, infrastructure -- we might want to avoid putting them at the beginning of the question. We must lead with our values and if we are concerned with the outsized role of markets, as we should be, what we need to be asking is "where human rights lead, will markets follow?" In some cases the answer is a resounding no, such as healthcare financing. That market has been nothing short of calamitous. The scorecard on housing isn't very good either, although we are very far from imagining a scalable alternative. And in our world dominated by indifferent markets, work fails to deliver a decent standard of living, dignity or fulfillment for far too many. Does that mean we reject all markets wholesale? That would be shortsighted and thoughtless. In fact, it would be as shortsighted and thoughtless as the market fundamentalism that has taken hold, where we fail to even consider alternatives and almost pathologically ignore the evidence. Market fundamentalism, which I loosely define as an almost divine faith in the inherent value of markets, irrespective of the evidence, is among the greatest threats to human rights today. But can we create more democratic markets? And can markets play a more constructive role? These are important questions, and we need to look for honest and realistic answers.
There are some arenas, however, where markets have clearly demonstrated their incompatibility with human rights. When it comes to basic human rights, such as education, healthcare, housing, food, water and a basic standard of living, government must play whatever role is necessary. Nonetheless, given a range of markets are the source of great injustices, the other question we need to ask is how can we build the power to make markets follow at least the minimal human rights obligations? Judith Samuelson, of the Aspen Institute, states that what matters in terms of corporate social responsibility is CEO leadership. I can't imagine a less tenable situation than human rights depending on who happens to have those jobs. It is far from a structural or reliable solution. So what is a solution and, just as importantly, how do we get there? Despite Ray Offenheiser's claim that Oxfam was not seeing "the kind of transformative structural change that [they] were after" with grassroots work, one of the most transformative examples we have in making markets follow basic human rights standards is right here in the United States: the Campaign for Fair Food. The Campaign for Fair Food has been led by farmworkers themselves who have worked simultaneously downstream in communities, with consumers, and activist networks, as well as upstream in collaboration with corporations, but only after building an unstoppable movement to end abuses in the agricultural supply chain in our country. The Campaign has resulted in the Fair Food Program – a comprehensive complaints-based, monitoring and worker-to-worker education system powered by swift market consequences for violations – that represents a worker-driven social responsibility model meriting further support. We should be learning from those experiences that shifting power dynamics so our human rights are not at the mercy of any specific individual's largess. And as Mr. Offenheiser notes, we must move from corporate responsibility to corporate accountability, which requires strengthening the role of government not only in setting standards, but in actual enforcement.
Even with the question posed, to be fair, many of the respondents agreed that we must reject market fundamentalism and argued for public goods and infrastructure, while others took less clear positions. It is a healthy and valid debate, but only if paired with a questioning of all our underlying assumptions and a clear message that we must always lead with our values.
October 8, 2014 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Leaving the Work - The Ultimate Self-Care?
Earlier I posted about the importance of self-care for those us working in human rights advocacy.
The topic I address today goes beyond sustaining those who engage in human rights advocacy, whether that advocacy is through writing, representation, policy work or other service. Having engaged in human rights training for judges, advocates, lawyers and other professionals I have encountered a serious problem for many whom I have met. Advocates struggle when they believe it might be time to change their work. Few of us are having the discussion about recognizing when it is time to leave human rights work. Some have expressed feeling guilty about a desire to change fields.
We are, by and large, a hopeful, happy and effective community.
Yet, each individual must decide what the scope and length of her work will be. While challenging, human rights work is rewarding. How satisfying it has been over the past few years to see dramatically increased awareness and understanding of human rights in the U.S.
Emotional exhaustion can creep in, however, despite our best efforts at self-care. For example, those working with immigrant juvenile detainees particularly in border states, deal with sadness on a daily basis. One journalist has described the detention centers as "having the feel of livestock areas at state fairs." Not only do those providing direct services observe disturbing living conditions, but they work with the knowledge that if their efforts fail, children may return to extremely dangerous conditions in their home nations. Many others work in equally distressing environments.
While most of us may not advocate in such extreme environments, every level of human rights work comes with difficult and disturbing realities. Secondary work on human rights violations can be traumatic. For example, just reading about human rights violations can take its toll if not managed properly.
We must give ourselves permission to change what we do. Change might mean leaving direct representation for policy work or leaving human rights work altogether. Our first obligation is to our own happiness and good emotional health. Knowing when to leave is not always easy. Sometimes we must consciously make space in order to assess our emotions and intuition. Sometimes we are near collapse before acknowledging the stress and sadness that are companions to human rights violations. For some, their contribution may extend over a lifetime. For others it may be for a year or less. For example, what students learn from a human rights externship or clinic, or from a week spent assisting those who live in poverty, cannot be measured. Students leave the experiences with new perspectives, in itself a valuable cultural contribution.
We are an exciting and thoughtful community. One important role we can play is to give each other permission to stop the work. We provide a valuable service to the community when we honor all who engage in human rights work, without time as a measurement.
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Monday, October 6, 2014
The Fundamental Right to Be Free of Violence and Abuse
In recognition of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month (October), we publish another in a series of posts addressing violence against women. Today's post, by JoAnn Kamuf Ward and Erin Foley Smith of Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute, is cross-posted from the Cities for CEDAW website.
By JoAnn Kamuf Ward and Erin Foley Smith of Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute
September marked the twentieth anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). VAWA was initially introduced in 1990 by then-Senator Joe Biden, as "a national strategy" to address violence against women, by holding offenders accountable, providing services to victims, and improving criminal justice responses.
Two decades after VAWA's enactment, violence against women remains a serious problem in the U.S. Domestic violence and sexual assault are two of the most prevalent forms; there are approximately 237,800 sexual assault victims every year, and one in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.
Over the years, some of VAWA's protections have been watered down, like the ability of survivors to sue individual abusers in federal court—which was rejected by the Supreme Court in 2000. But today there is a renewed federal effort by Vice President Biden to increase accountability. This includes a Vice Presidential Summit bringing together the Department of Justice, legal scholars, and state and local prosecutors to restore the right to sue. However, even if restored, an accountability gap will remain. Indeed, many advocates are pushing for greater accountability for institutions that play a role in perpetuating gender-based violence, including law enforcement agencies, which have engaged in gender-biased policing, including mishandling reported cases of domestic violence and sexual assault, and harboring officers who engaged in acts of gender-based violence.
And ultimately eliminating violence against women requires more than an ability to sue abusers; it requires a comprehensive approach, focused on preventing violence and eradicating its root causes (such as discrimination, social biases, and a lack of adequate institutional responses). This is one of the reasons that advocates and governments alike are looking to human rights principles to address such violence.
In a notable step, President Obama issued a proclamation on the anniversary of VAWA "reaffirm[ing] the basic human right to be free from violence and abuse." The proclamation echoes initiatives from localities across the country. As of today, twelve jurisdictions have passed local resolutions recognizing freedom from domestic violence and/or violence against women as a fundamental human right, including Albany, Austin, Texas, Baltimore, Boston and Miami-Dade County. Most of these resolutions cite to international human rights law and to the landmark decision of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the case of Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) v. United States. They further highlight that government has a responsibility to secure the right to be free from domestic violence, and some direct local officials to incorporate human rights principles into governmental policy and practice. While non-binding, the resolutions demonstrate support for a new, rights-based approach to the problem of gender-based violence.
What exactly does a human rights approach entail? Human rights principles focus on governmental responsibility to proactively take steps to prevent acts of gender-based violence committed by both private and governmental actors. Moreover, they require that gender-based violence, which disproportionately impacts women and sexual minorities, receive the same treatment and resources as other serious crimes of violence. Effective responses to violations that do occur are also an essential piece of the puzzle. Further, the human rights framework prioritizes survivor dignity and empowerment, which are so often missing for victims of crimes like domestic violence and sexual assault. The core elements of international human rights law that provide a roadmap for evaluating existing policies and identifying sustainable solutions are detailed in the recent report, Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault in the United States: A Human Rights Based Approach & Practice Guide.
These principles are reflected in local efforts to integrate human rights into law. Indeed, Cities for CEDAW goes further than the aspirational commitments made at the federal and local levels, calling on cities to pass ordinances to implement the international human rights treaty on women's rights to address gender inequity in a number of arenas, including employment, and could benefit domestic violence survivors by allowing them to use their paid sick leave when dealing with stalking or domestic violence.
The momentum around fulfilling the right to be free from violence at the federal, state, and local levels is inspiring. A more comprehensive, prevention-based approach to law and policy that puts women's equality at the fore is sorely needed. It's up to women and men in our communities to signal their commitment to human rights, and to call on our elected officials to do the same.
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Friday, October 3, 2014
State Facilitation of Sexual Assault of the Incacerated and Detained
As commented earlier by Cindy Soohoo, prison sexual assault continues to be a serious problem despite the passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003. Prison rape is a grossly underreported crime for several reasons. One is fear of retaliation by the perpetrators. Another is that complaining prisoners are often placed in solitary confinement for "safety" reasons. Whether for prisoner protection or punishment, the isolation of solitary confinement is torturous. Despite these reporting limitations, according to the Bureau of Justice, in 2013 approximately 4% of state and federal inmates reported having been sexually assaulted. When one considers that conservatively 4% of prisoners are sexually assaulted, and that the incarcerated population is 2.2 million, the minimum number of prisoners sexually assaulted while incarcerated is over 80,000.
While some assaults were by other inmates, the majority were perpetrated by correctional facility staff. Juveniles report a nearly 10% rate of sexual assault, and this statistic does not include sexual assaults of immigrant juveniles held in detention pending a hearing with the Board of Immigration Appeals. Most juveniles report multiple assaults. Of those juveniles held in state or federal facilities, one in five reports 11 or more sexual assaults. Staff is reported to be the overwhelming perpetrators of sexual assault of minors. With increasing incarceration in the United States, prison overcrowding and the wholesale detention of immigrant juveniles, sexual assault rates of incarcerated and detained minors will likely increase.
Incarcerated individuals who experience mental illness, transgender individuals and juveniles are particularly vulnerable to sexual assault.
The majority of sexual violence against incarcerated men and women are state employees. The state is a direct actor in perpetrating this sexual torture. By sending persons convicted of crime, those awaiting trial and those detained pending immigration hearings to facilities that are known to be unsafe, the state is complicit in the sexual assaults. " …[I]f a person is to be transferred or sent to the custody or control of an individual or institution known to have engaged in torture or ill-treatment, or has not implemented adequate safeguards, the State is responsible, and its officials subject to punishment for ordering, permitting or participating in this transfer contrary to the State's obligation to take effective measures to prevent torture in accordance with article 2, paragraph 1."
Editor's note: This post is part of the shadow report on domestic violence and sexual assault submitted as part of the review of U.S. compliance with the Convention Against Torture.
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Thursday, October 2, 2014
The Growing Movement to Curb Street Harassment
The movement against street harassment is growing. And leading anti-harassment advocacy groups like Hollaback and Stop Street Harassment characterize it as a basic human rights issue.
Most women experience street harassment as a constant concern which can range from mildly annoying to intimidating and physically threatening. In 2012, film student Sofie Peeters used a hidden camera to chronicle a "day in the life" of a Belgian woman who was repeatedly accosted by men as she made her way through the city on foot. Importantly, even women who feel relatively unphased by street harassment nevertheless change their daily behavior in order to avoid it -- for example, driving in the city instead of walking, wearing sunglasses and avoiding places where men may be congregating.
Wide access to social media is an important factor fueling the resurgence of interest in, and activism on, this issue, as women can easily share their experiences on-line and provide support for confronting the harassers or seeking policy changes. Indeed, the Belgian film went viral and prompted new legislation in Belgium to criminally punish harassers with fines or even imprisonment. In India, Egypt and a growing number of other locales, activists are using on-line mapping to pinpoint areas where street harassment most often occurs and to call for a greater law enforcement presence.
Socially-engaged art has also helped build momentum to take this issue seriously. For example, feminist artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, who will be in residence at Northeastern University next week, has traveled around the country with her participatory public art project on street harassment, Stop Telling Women to Smile.
The United Nations spoke to this in 2013, when the UN Commission on the Status of Women for the first time adopted language highlighting the prevalent sexual harassment that women experience in public spaces around the world:
"The Commission expresses deep concern about violence against women and girls in public spaces, including sexual harassment, especially when it is being used to intimidate women and girls who are exercising any of their human rights and fundamental freedoms."
A major impact of unchecked street harassment is to discourage women from walking freely in the city and engaging in active participation in civic life. In light of this, the UN document also calls upon nations to "[i]ncrease measures to protect women and girls from violence and harassment, including sexual harassment and bullying, in both public and private spaces, to address security and safety, through awareness-raising, involvement of local communities, crime prevention laws, policies, programmes such as the Safe Cities Initiative of the United Nations, improved urban planning, infrastructures, public transport and street lighting, and also through social and interactive media."
While it remains to be seen what approaches will be most effective, i.e., enhanced penalties and other deterrents as in Belgium, redesigned public spaces, public education, or others, the encouraging news is that as a result of women's activism and leadership, street harassment is increasingly understood as a global human rights issue requiring serious responses and ideas for effective change going forward.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Ebola's Human Rights Implications
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the largest in history. As of September 23, the disease has produced a total case count of 6,574 (which includes confirmed, probable, and suspected cases) and 3,091 deaths. The CDC estimates that "[w]ithout additional interventions or changes in community behavior … by January 20, 2015, there will be a total of approximately 550,000 Ebola cases in Liberia and Sierra Leone or 1.4 million if corrections for underreporting are made." These are frightening numbers that raise the prospects of a global pandemic. The human rights implications are profound.
At its most basic level, the Ebola outbreak implicates the right to life, enshrined in various human rights instruments including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). It also threatens affected individuals' right to "the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health," found in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) as well as the CRC. As the scale of the outbreak grows, and if it takes a toll on health care professionals, the ripple effect will be significant and likely implicate other rights.
Foremost, a rapid and effective response is needed to contain the outbreak and to ensure the survival and wellbeing of every individual affected by or at risk of Ebola.
Beyond this most pressing concern, Ebola highlights a critical—and undertheorized—question in human rights law. Health rights—like all economic, social, and cultural rights—are tied to a state's obligation to use "the maximum of its available resources" (ICESCR article 2). The ICESCR requires states parties to take steps "individually and through international assistance and co-operation." The international assistance language clearly means that if a country does not have sufficient resources to ensure the economic, social and cultural rights of all, it must pursue international assistance. The unanswered question is what response human rights law requires of wealthier nations. Reading the international assistance language to mean that wealthier nations are obligated to provide assistance suggests a potentially dramatic broadening of human rights law jurisdiction. States parties to human rights treaties agree to ensure rights to all individuals subject to their jurisdiction, not to individuals in other countries with limited resources. On the one hand, saying that wealthier nations have no obligation to give when asked would render the international assistance language meaningless.
Again, today, the immediate priority and obligation must be to ensure the survival of ill and at-risk individuals. However, the Ebola outbreak also challenges human rights scholars and advocates to more clearly articulate the meaning of the "international assistance" requirement of states' obligations to ensure economic, social and cultural rights.
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Pope Francis met the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi this week at the start of the Arab leader's first European tour.
Although past 'uprisings' have been quickly snuffed out, the latest calls for mass protests have been more strategically savvy and explicitly violent than usual.
The committee tasked last year by interim President Adly Mansour with investigating the violent consequences of the June 30 uprising released its final report today in an international press conference. The report focused for the most part on the dispersal of the sit-ins at Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda Squares, but it also featured sections considering violence on university campuses and violence faced by Coptic Christians.
The current U.S. strategy to destroy the Islamic State is likely doomed to fail. In fact, it risks doing just the opposite of its intended goal: strengthening the jihadis' appeal in Syria, Iraq, and far beyond, while leaving the door open for the Islamic State to expand into new areas.
The rise of the Islamic State has once again turned the spotlight on Saudi Arabia, which is accused of supplying the theological foundation of the movement's brutal ideology, as well as many of its fighters and funders.
Coptic Solidarity 2014 Conference
The Annual Conference was held in Washington, D.C. on June 26-28, 2014.
Marina Shalaby, a researcher at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, is declared the winner of the Coptic Solidarity Writing Contest for 2014.(Click Here)

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Cape May Gazette
LOWER TOWNSHIP – Arthur E. "Art" Treon, whose name was synonymous with fire fighting and emergency management in the township, county, and state, died Wednesday night after leaving the scene of a fatal fire in North Wildwood.
Town Bank Fire Chief Lou McGonigal, a longtime friend, said Treon had gone to Tuesday night's fire at 212 W. 17th Ave. in North Wildwood Nov. 18. McGonigal said Treon complained of chest pains and shortness of breath and was transported to the hospital, where he appeared to be doing better. Treon later died…
Every year I end up writing about the snow vs. rain debate, and I think it's come early this year. Some people are saying it's too early to be as cold as it is. I'm not sure. Just because it is this cold, now, doesn't mean it won't warm up later.
Isn't that what Indian Summer is?
Middle Township Gazette
Police identify 71-year-old man killed in Whitesboro fire
WHITESBORO – Firefighters with Rio Grande were called from a fire in North Wildwood, that left one person dead, to respond to a fire in Whitesboro that killed another man.
"We were at the North Wildwood fire, and clearing that scene when we got a call for a…
Wildwood Leader
NORTH WILDWOOD – Andrew N. "Andy" Markee was known to some as the quintessential Fudgy Wudgy man, dispensing ice cream and smiles to beachgoers in North Wildwood.
Markee died on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, at the age of 76.
Middle Township Gazette
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE – Aziza, the first female giraffe that called the Cape May County Zoo her home has died, zoo officials announced today.
Dr. Hurbert Paluch, and director of the zoo said that Aziza arrived at the zoo nearly 20 years ago and was one of the first inhabitants in the Savannah.
Wildwood Leader
CAPE MAY – Wildwood Middle School students got a taste of the Great Fire of Cape May when they made their way to this city to take a tour and listen to tales of the disaster than changed the face of this seaside resort.
Thirty-five students and their teachers piled onto the bus Nov. 14 to make their way south at the end of their school day to participate in the tour, "Cape May on Fire." The hour-and-a-half long program took students throughout Cape…
Middle Township Gazette
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE – Frederick Gene Marr will likely spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of his nephew, a judge decided Friday, Nov. 14.
Cape May Gazette
USCG medevacs man near Cape May
Written by Staff Reports Wednesday, May 07, 2014 04:07 pm
PHILADELPHIA — The Coast Guard medevaced a 50-year-old man, May 3, after he was experiencing symptoms of decompression sickness while diving off a research boat 23 miles off the coast of Cape May.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay in Philadelphia received the report at approximately 4:45 p.m. from a person aboard the boat.
Veterans honored in Armed Forces Day ceremony
Written by Staff Reports Wednesday, May 07, 2014 03:29 pm
CAPE MAY - The Friends of the World War II Lookout Tower will honor area veterans of all wars on Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 17, at the restored World War II Lookout Tower (Fire Control Tower No. 23) in a patriotic ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. The tower will be open to the public with free admission from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The World War II Lookout Tower Museum & Memorial is located on Sunset Boulevard in Lower Township near Cape May Point, N.J. It pays tribute to the dedicated men and women who have helped preserve our freedom, and stands as a reminder of the Cape May area's important role during the war years. A Wall of Honor celebrates those World War II veterans from the area who have served.
Cape May Police handing out 'positive tickets'
Written by Staff Reports Wednesday, May 07, 2014 03:23 pm
CAPE MAY — On May 1 the Cape May Police Department began handing out "Positive Tickets."
In an effort to promote the use of helmets and encourage safe behavior, the Cape May Police Department in collaboration with the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey, is implementing Think Positive: A Helmet Safety Reward Program. This safety initiative uses positive reinforcement and education as a means to reinforce the importance of helmet safety and brain injury prevention.
Charlotte F. Daily funeral today
Written by Staff Reports Wednesday, May 07, 2014 11:01 am
WEST CAPE MAY — Funeral services were held today, May 7, for Charlotte F. Daily (nee Warner), known locally as "The Parade Lady."
Daily, 82, who lived on Broadway in West Cape May passed away on April 30.
Pilot House to be sold to Peter Shields owner
Written by Christopher South Wednesday, May 07, 2014 09:26 am
CAPE MAY — Jeffrey Gernitis of the Peter Shields Inn confirmed he and partners Leonard Gagliardi and Gino Ciancaglini are in the process of buying the Pilot House.
Recently the partners, known as Carpenters Street Hospitality Inc., applied for a person-to-person liquor license transfer from Frank Enterprises, owners of the Pilot House.
Cape May fire chief retiring
Written by Christopher South Tuesday, May 06, 2014 11:56 am
CAPE MAY – Cape May Fire Chief Jerry Inderwies Jr. has decided to hang up his fire gear, at least on a full-time basis, when he retires from the Cape May Fire Department on June 1.
Inderwies, 45, has been the fire chief here since 2004.
Cape May-Lewes Ferry sponsors Nature Center's first youth birding team
Written by Staff Reports Monday, May 05, 2014 03:28 pm
CAPE MAY - For the first time ever, the Nature Center of Cape May will field a team to compete in the World Series of Birding (WSB), thanks in large part to the generosity of the Cape May-Lewes Ferry and the Delaware River and Bay Authority. Calling themselves the "Young Yellowhammers," the team has a distinctively youthful flare since all members are New Jersey residents between the ages of 13 and 17.
The World Series of Birding, scheduled for Saturday, May 10, is a well-known birding competition that draws participants and teams from around the world to Cape May County. The goal of the competition is for each team to encounter as many different species of birds as possible during a 24 hour period. The professional teams will compete during a full 24 hour cycle, but since this is the "Young Yellowhammers'" first WSB outing, they will compete on an abbreviated 16-hour schedule from 4 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Read more: Cape May-Lewes Ferry sponsors Nature Center's first youth birding team
Boaters: Hold your calls, go with VHF instead
Written by Christopher South Monday, May 05, 2014 09:17 am
CAPE MAY — If your car breaks down, chances are you will reach for your cell phone and call for help.
If your boat breaks down, you probably won't be able to rely on the device — smart phone or not.
Early postal service was mostly an informal system
Written by Jacob Schaad Jr. Sunday, May 04, 2014 11:00 pm
While America was achieving its goal of independence during the Revolutionary War from 1775-1783, its leaders knew that starting a new nation was not to be all that easy. They were on their own then. Limited and oppressive that it had been, there was no help from the mother country anymore and, as the saying goes with a bit of alteration, now was the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
One of the problems facing the new kid in the world was the lack of communications. There were no e-mails then or telegrams or telephones and the postman did not ring twice or even once. In Cape May County, as elsewhere, the primitive roads were conversions from the paths of the Lenni Lenape Indians and were not conducive to general travel. Sometimes, in the era of the stage coach, it took four or five days, if at all, for messages to get from one end of the county to the other.
Read more: Early postal service was mostly an informal system
Charles W. Sandman School Honor Roll, Third marking period 2013-14
Written by Staff Reports Saturday, May 03, 2014 11:00 pm
Third marking period
Fifth Grade
Academic Achievement
Read more: Charles W. Sandman School Honor Roll, Third marking period 2013-14
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- Winter basketball in Lower Township
- East Lynne presents theater scholarship to local actor
- Art Treon, longtime firefighter, dies after responding to fire
- Barbara Lamont named MAC Volunteer of the Month
- Scarecrow Alley winners announced
- Public comment part of Cape May Police assessment
- 6th annual Evening of Giving Thanks
- Ladies Night Out holiday shopping event
- Meetings continue on Training Center mission
- Charging stations for electric vehicles planned at Lewes ferry terminal
- Letter: Officials should support public education
- Letter: BL England pipeline could be used to export natural gas
- Too much jurisprudence in government
- Head back to school, not to courts
- Letter: Christie scandal sounds like abuse of power
- Commentary > Community, students will dearly miss this educator and director
- Bizarre History of Cape May: Oscar Wilde's appearance in Cape May went little noted at the time
- Bizarre History of Cape May: Cape May took to the skies in the 1920s
- Sadly, 'War To End All Wars' was no such thing
- Bizarre History of Cape May: Hughes went from the Big House to the People's House
- Bizarre History of Cape May: Lower Township's borders have been constantly changing
- Bizarre History of Cape May: German POWs helped fight mosquitoes in Cape May County
- Early postal service was mostly an informal system
- Bizarre History of Cape May: Easter parade tradition continues in Cape May
- Bizarre History: Tourists weren't fooled by cold snap on April 1, 1923
- No separation between church and state in early Cape May
- Ladies Night Out shopping event
- Cape May Stage presents 'The Santaland Diaries'
- Classical guitar concert Nov. 23
- Screenwriting workshops at The Nature Center of Cape May
- Cape May Stage presents "Merry Melodies: A Holiday Celebration"
- Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Physick Estate
- Public invited to 27th annual sing-a-long
- Christmas traditions lecture in Cape May
- Free admission to Carroll Gallery
- Candlelight walk at Historic Cold Spring Village
- Cooper is Middle's Mr. Versatility
- Herlihy into Meet of Champions for second time
- MOC berth a fitting finish for WHS senior
- Grauel, Warriors finally taste victory
- OCHS Boys Soccer repeats as South Jersey champions
- Holden makes it official with Fordham
- Lady Tigers stunned in Group II opener
- Middle advances into semifinal round
- Lower, Middle hope to meet again
- Terry needs just 110 games to win 100


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Malabon Elementary
Malabon News
Crazy Hat or Hair Day Tomorrow, November 25th!
Malabon kids have earned a Crazy Hat or Hair Day! Respect Rangers have been out and about these last two weeks looking for classrooms of students being respectful, creating a positive learning environment. When a class was caught being respectful, a Respect Medal was hung on their door. Our goal was to collect 250 Respect Medals by today. Our kids, however, didn't stop at 250. At last count, Malabon classrooms had earned a total of 317 Respect Medals! Pretty impressive! We are looking forward to a fun day of learning with a little crazy mixed in!
Reminder… No School on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday of this week. Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
A Malabon Holiday Bazaar
Malabon PTO is hosting a HOLIDAY BAZAAR. Click on the link for more information.
The New Malabon is starting to take shape!
To see the progress, click on the video below to see a time lapse of the construction happening at Malabon!
November Happenings at Malabon!
PTO News
Click on the PTO November News for events and ways you can get involved this month!
PTO's Next Family Fun Night
Our PTO is hosting its next Family Fun Night on Thursday, November 13th, from 6:00-8:00pm at Skate World! Hope many of you can make this Free event!
Malabon's Music Concert
K-2nd Grade, Tuesday, Nov. 18th 7:00-8:00pm
3rd -5th Grade, Wednesday, Nov. 19th 7:00-8:00pm
Exclusion day is Wednesday, February 18th, 2015 for overdue immunizations.
We have started the process of gathering immunization information so we don't have any students excluded from attending school in February.
Parents please provide us with any immunization updates students have, including month & year of chickenpox disease. Any updates can be given or faxed to the front office or your Health Room Assistant.
Veteran's Day: No School Tuesday, November 11th
Thanksgiving Vacation: No School Wednesday, November 26th through Friday, November 28th
PTO's October Family Fun Night, Thursday Oct. 23rd! Click here to read all about it!
Friday, October 24th is the "Where" Fair!
Students who have chosen to participate will be sharing their geography project with their peers. Projects will be set up in our cafeteria at 12:45. Classes will be rotating through beginning at 1:00. Parents are always welcome to join.
Thursday, October 30th, at Malabon
Individual classrooms will be having harvest celebration parties on Thursday, October 30th. These will take place after 1:00pm. Your child is welcome to wear a costume to school if it won't interfere with regular classroom instruction and daily routines (PE, recess, instruction, etc). Masks and full face painting are things that would interfere with instruction so please save thes cosutmes for events not at school. Costumes need to be appropriate for school (weapons, violence, blood, etc. will not be allowed).
If you are planning on sending your children out trick or treating on Friday evening, the 31st, please remind them of all those important rules: Be safe, Be respectful, Be responsible, Be Malabon!
Reminder: Friday, October 31st is a no school day for students.
October is Safety Month at Malabon!
Safety Procedures at Malabon
One of our most important jobs at Malabon is to ensure student safety. We know that when students are safe they will learn and grow academically. Part of being safe is practicing routines so that students and staff know exactly what to do in particular situations. This involves fire drills, lock-down drills, and practicing what to do in the event of an earthquake. If you are in the building when one of these drills takes place, please plan to participate in the drill with students and staff.
When practicing fire drills, students are led by teachers to a designated space away from the building. We account for all students through communication with specific staff members prior to ending the drill. Students and staff are asked to walk quietly to and from their designated space, in case everyone needs to hear specific directions given to them.
We practice "lock-down" drills in case a situation arises in which we are notified that student safety may be compromised (i.e, an unsafe visitor on campus or police notification regarding unsafe behavior in the neighborhood surrounding the school). Staff will receive a command over the intercom system ("Staff, please secure your rooms, this is a lockdown"). Upon hearing this command, staff will lock all interior and exterior doors, close all blinds in the rooms, turn off lights. Students not in their classroom at the time of the command will be escorted by staff to the nearest enclosed building. For our first drill, teachers notify students and have an age-appropriate discussion regarding the details of the drill. Teachers may debrief with students after the drill has taken place as well.
An earthquake drill has two parts to it. The first part involves students practicing the "duck and cover" method in their classroom, meaning that they duck under their desks and cover their heads. Once the "duck and cover" event has taken place, students and staff will exit the building as we do in a fire drill.
As previously mentioned, should parents and guardians happen to be at Malabon when these drills take place, we ask that you participate in the drills. In the event that a real lock-down takes place, we ask parents to please refrain from coming to Malabon to check on their children. In a crisis situation, we also ask that you keep our phone lines available for emergency use and refrain from calling the office. Should we need to get emergency information to parents, we will send an email message to all addresses that we have on file. If you have not yet provided us with an email address, please do so at your earliest convenience. Radio and television media will also have specific information in severe emergency situations.
Reminder! No School On Friday, October 10th.
School Safety Training
The protection and safe-keeping of all students is our #1 priority. That is why all Bethel School District staff will take part in school safety training on October 10th, a no-school day for educator training.
This workshop will make sure our staff members have a shared understanding of how to respond in emergency situations, especially a worst-case scenario of an armed intruder on campus. It is sad that there is a need to adequately prepare our staff for such a remote possibility, but we believe it is better to train for a worst-case scenario and never use that training than to sit back and just hope a life-threatening event never happens.
Every school in our district already practices fire drills, lockdowns, and earthquake drills. This training will add to our staff's abilities to respond in extreme emergencies in order to keep students safe. Contact me firstname.lastname@example.com if you have any questions.
October Story-Time In Bethel
All Bethel pre-schoolers are welcomed to weekly Story Time at the Bethel Family Resource Center, located inside Malabon Elementary.
Every Thursday from 11:00-12:30 kids will hear a story, receive a snack and take part in an activity. This will build your children's confidence in a school setting, peer play and literacy skills.
The Family Resource Center also offers drop-in time on Thursdays from 1:30-4:00, with activities this month including silly squash based art, playing with veggies to create wacky monsters, painting with veggies, and feeling things in mystery boxes.
For more information call Anne with the Bethel Family Resource Center at 541-461-6421, ext 2539.
PTO News
Click on PTO October Newsletter to find news about events happening at Malabon!
Mark Your Calendars!
Malabon Open House
Mark your calendars for this Thursday, September 25th, 6:30-7:30pm
Students are invited and encouraged to bring their parents to Malabon and give them a tour. Say hello to your child's teacher, ask questions, check out your child's classroom and get to know the routines. We look forward to seeing you there!
Friday, September 26th, is a No School Day
Teachers will be going to school themselves this Friday. They will be learning more about implementing our new reading and math programs and writing student learning growth goals to assure that all students are making good progress throughout the year.
News From your PTO
It's time for our Malabon Jog-A-Thon!
DATE: September 30TH AND October 1st
LOCATION: Petersen Barn Park
TIMES: September 30th Am kindergartens 9:30-10:30, PM kindergarten-2nd 1-2pm October 1st 3rd-5th 1-2pm
Coming home in Tuesday Folders will be your child's pledge sheet. Please have your child collect their pledges from family members or friends and return it to the school by WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8TH. You can pledge by the lap or make a one-time donation.
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NFL - Ranking all 32 NFL coaches before 2012 seasonHerm Edwards
Herm Edwards ranks the 32 NFL coaches on five distinct tiers. Bill Belichick is the top coach in the league.Story | Conversation | August 28, 2012
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- A new month and a new locale for the NFC East blog, which drove Tuesday night through Gettysburg and Harrisburg and goodness-knows-how-many other burgs to arrive here. I will be checking out the training camp of the dynastically-min...Blog | August 01, 2012
Breakfast links: Eagles to trade Samuel?
PALM BEACH, Fla. -- As the sun rises over the Atlantic Ocean, the NFL's owners, coaches, GMs and almost anyone else with any connection to the league rise to begin their annual meetings at The Breakers. Most everyone checked in Sunday, and much of th...Blog | March 26, 2012
NFL - The Detroit Lions top the list of the NFL's best defensive ...Matt Williamson
Matt Williamson from Scouts Inc. breaks down the best defensive lines in the NFL and comes to the conclusion that nobody brings the heat up front like the Detroit Lions.Story | Conversation | September 22, 2011
NFL -- Injuries already piling up at wide receiverJohn Clayton
Pass-catchers are putting up gaudy numbers early, but they're also getting injured at an alarming rate, John Clayton writes in his latest mailbag.Story | Conversation | September 21, 2011
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NFC East Monday: How was your day?Dan Graziano
A programming note here: I will not be doing "How Was Your Day?" throughout the season. There's just no way I'm going to sit up until midnight seven nights a week to do a 800-word post summarizing the way each of the division's team spent its day. Bu...Blog | August 02, 2011
Breakfast links: Fly, Vince Young, FlyMatt Mosley
So today is the day NFL free agents can actually sign contracts with teams. Yeah, that's right. All that noise and insanity of the past three days? Just the preliminary work. The agreeing to terms. The laying of the foundations for deals not yet cons...Blog | July 29, 2011
NFC East Thursday: How was your day?Dan Graziano
Every day is different, for everybody and every team. And so, at the end of a crazy day tracking, dissecting and analyzing all the moves being made and not being made in the NFC East, we like to pause and ask each team a simple question: How was your...Blog | July 28, 2011
NFC East free-agency breakdownDan Graziano
A look at the free-agent priorities for each NFC East team: Dallas Cowboys 1. Re-sign left tackle Doug Free. He is coming off his first season as starting left tackle, but Free handled the move well and is viewed as the starting left tackle of ...Blog | July 25, 2011
NFC East salary cap talkDan Graziano
John Clayton's latest column is on potential salary-cap casualties -- guys who could be cut by teams that need to get under the new salary-cap number, which looks as if it will be $120 million. It also comes with a list of all NFL teams and where the...Blog | July 20, 2011
Breakfast links with Deion and DezMatt Mosley
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him link. I can, though. Dallas Cowboys I was going to post on all this Deion Sanders-Dez Bryant stuff Tuesday, but it felt like a radio interview Deion had given last week and to which I'd alre...Blog | July 13, 2011
Breakfast links: Kerry Collins calls it quitsMatt Mosley
Kerry Collins announced his retirement Thursday after 16 NFL seasons, and that matters to the NFC East blog because of the somewhat significant place he occupies in the history of the New York Giants. No, as Mike Garafolo points out, he's not Phil...Blog | July 08, 2011
Breakfast links: What? Still no deal?Matt Mosley
When we last left our heroes, things were looking a little better on the NFL labor front, with the sides negotiating until all hours late last week and promising to resume talking after the holiday weekend. Those who were hoping to spend their Fourth...Blog | July 05, 2011


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A General Introduction to Masonry Construction PPT
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Source : http://mirkostrade10.sydneyinstitute.wikispaces.net/file/view/Masonary.pptx
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Source : http://blog.wsd.net/thpaskett/files/2009/06/13-c-masonry.ppt
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Britain's £1.7bn EU bill
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MLB Prospects: Keith Law of ESPN put out his list of Top 100 MLB prospects over the weekend and surprisingly, the Yankees are well-represented (5 in the Top 100, two in the Top 12). Law compared Yanks' prospect Jesus Montero to Frank Thomas. The Rays have eight players in the Top 100 (three in the Top 20). The Red Sox only have three in the Top 100 (but the highest-rated player was 45). The worst franchise in baseball, Pittsburgh, has just two. The Royals have six, including two of the Top 8. Mike Trout of the Angels was No. 1.
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