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Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin; Arabic: أمل كلوني; born () 3 February 1978) [1] is a British-Lebanese international human rights lawyer. [2] She has represented several high-profile clients, including former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, [3] WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, [4] former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, [5] Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad, [6 ...
A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights. They can be journalists, environmentalists, whistleblowers, trade unionists, lawyers, teachers, housing campaigners, participants in direct action, or just individuals acting alone. They can defend rights as ...
Secular humanism posits that human beings are capable of being ethical and moral without religion or belief in a deity. It does not, however, assume that humans are either inherently good or evil, nor does it present humans as being superior to nature. Rather, the humanist life stance emphasizes the unique responsibility facing humanity and the ...
Amal Clooney, co-founder of the Clooney Foundation for Justice and leading barrister in international law, gave some inspiring opening remarks at Cartier’s Women’s Initiative awards ceremony ...
The Clooney Foundation for Justice, established by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker George Clooney, announced the a new leadership team Tuesday that the ...
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States, also based in Washington, D.C. Along with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San José, Costa Rica, it is one of the bodies that comprise the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human ...
Alsalem's paper discussed the definition of "woman" in international human rights treaties, particularly CEDAW. Alsalem argues that while CEDAW does not explicitly define "woman", it refers to biological females and that sex and sex-based discrimination in that context is understood as a biological category. [59]
Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:03am EDT (Reuters) - A London law firm confirmed the worst-kept secret in show business on Monday by sending congratulations to one of its lawyers and Hollywood leading man ...