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(July 13, 2009) – The Malaysian government should immediately drop politically motivated criminal charges against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, Human Rights Watch said today. On July 15, 2009, the Kuala Lumpur High Court will hear Anwar’s application to strike out a sodomy charge against him, and an ongoing defense request for evidence it says is [...] (New York) – The Lithuanian parliament should not revive a proposed law that had been vetoed by the president, to ban references to gay, lesbian, and bisexual relations in public places, Human Rights Watch said in a letter released today to the speaker of Lithuania’s parliament. (Washington, DC) – The US State Department should not certify Mexico’s compliance with the Merida Initiative’s human rights requirements so long as Mexican army abuses continue to be tried in military rather than civilian courts, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released today. The debate for health care reform is well underway in the halls of Congress – but it’s also raging outside the Beltway. Last month we blogged about the Center for Equal Opportunity’s study, “Racial, Ethnic and Gender Preferences in Admissions to the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy,” which concluded that both service academies lowered admissions standards for black admittees. Professor Bruce Fleming, who teaches at the Naval Academy, exposes how the school assesses applicants [...] Like most liberal politicians, President Barack Obama supports race-based preferential treatment, although he calls it affirmative action, which it is not. We’ve explained on the blog several times what affirmative action is: widening the recruitment net to include qualified minorities historically left out of the process for whatever reason. Racial preferences are not affirmative action. [...] |
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