Johns Hopkins law scholar says human rights violations undermine medical professionalism, urges collective outcry (newswise)

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Singapore questioned by the UN CEDAW committee on gender equality and human rights (theonlinecitizen)

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Maine court holds school board officials are not specifically obligated under state's human rights law to provide bathroom accommodations for transgender student (NSBA)

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An open letter to Benedict XVI GLBT Christians to pay attention to human rights* (paperblog)

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Rochester city council calls for gender identity rights (pollhudson)

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Gay immigrants allege human rights abuses in ICE detention centers (Legal Times)

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New US State Department Human Rights Report: Ugandan Persecution of Gay, Lesbian & Transgender People (lezgetreal)

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Laws criminalizing homosexuality are incompatible with international human rights standards and fuel homophobia (lezgetreal)

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Bill to expand human rights law rejected again (khq)

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Murdered transgender person was top human rights lawyer (Car Rentals [UK])

After the woman who pushed the ‘man in a dress’ under a train at King’s Cross Station Monday had appeared in court charged with murder, police revealed the identity of the victim. (more above)

JCPenney receives top rating on human rights campaign corporate equality index (Marketwatch)

PLANO, Texas, Oct 20, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- J. C. Penney Company, Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!jcp/quotes/nls/jcp (JCP 33.04, +0.31, +0.95%) has announced that it has earned a perfect score of 100 percent on the 2011 Corporate Equality Index, released by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) earlier this month. The index measures employers on their treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees and consumers. (more above)

US airways honored for human rights (Bizjournals)

US Airways Group Inc. has earned a top rating in Human Rights Campaign’s corporate equality index, a measure of policies and attitudes toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees and customers.( read above)

Consensus is the right approach for the European court of human rights (The Guardian [UK])

The European court of human rights in Strasbourg is already the most important international human rights tribunal in the world. (more above)