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April 17, 2009
April 17, 2009Recent measles cases in four states - California, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Iowa - highlight the growing number of unvaccinated adults and children living in the United States as well as the need to control the global spread of the disease. Full release.
ADL leaders from across the country will gather for briefings from key government leaders, policymakers, ambassadors and opinion-makers during the ADL Shana Amy Glass National Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. Among the issues on the agenda are protecting the homeland, U.S.-Israel Relations, anti-Semitism, challenges for Israel's new government, anti-Israel bias at the UN, protecting civil liberties, and more. Full release.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to declare greenhouse gases a danger to human health and welfare, clearing the way for U.S. regulation: "I welcome the decision by the Obama Administration to recognize the Supreme Court's decision allowing EPA to use the Clean Air Act to regulate air pollution from vehicles." Full release.
The International Fund for Legal Due Process (IFLDP), a non-profit organization dedicated to defending each individual's rights to fundamental fairness, justice, and due process of law, today issued the following statement following Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon Real's violation of American judicial sovereignty after pursuing a criminal complaint seeking international arrest warrants for Bush administration officials. Full release.
Today at the inauguration of the Fifth Summit of the Americas hosted by Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was confronted by a full-page announcement published in the national newspaper Trinidad Express signed by nine prominent human rights groups, calling upon all Summit delegates to directly confront Mr. Chavez on numerous human rights violations. Full release.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced a $12.5 million dollar expansion of the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) Effective School Program during a visit to the Rosa Duarte Public Elementary School in the Dominican Republic. Full release.
In response to news that the U.S. Department of Justice released memos that provided the legal framework for the Central Intelligence Agency's use of waterboarding and other illegal interrogation methods that violate domestic and international law, Amnesty International's executive director Larry Cox made the following statement. Full release.