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The Justice Project
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The Justice Project is a "nonpartisan organization [of veterans] dedicated to fighting injustice and to creating a more humane and just world." The site includes information on the organization's current programs involving criminal justice ...
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http://www.thejusticeproject.org/ |
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Fight for Your Rights: Feature Archive
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Archive of stories (2001-2004) from this MTV "campaign to educate [its] audience about discrimination and to help them fight it within their communities and in themselves." Some of the topics covered include HIV/AIDS bias, hate crimes, raci ...
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http://www.mtv.com/onair/ffyr/discrimination/featurearchive.jhtml |
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Charlton Heston Defends Gun Laws
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This 1999 article describes how Charlton Heston, movie actor and "head of America's largest pro-gun lobbying organisation [the National Rifle Association (NRA)] has denied that the US needs tighter firearms legislation following a spate of massa ...
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/408022.stm |
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Kids Risk
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Professor Kimberly Thompson of the Harvard School of Public Health "launched the Kids Risk Project to empower kids, parents, and policy makers to improve children's lives by focusing on the risks that children face and on finding cost-effective ...
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http://www.kidsrisk.harvard.edu/ |
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Race: Are We So Different?
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Companion website to an exhibit that "brings together the everyday experience of living with race, its history as an idea, the role of science in that history, and the findings of contemporary science that are challenging its foundations. ...
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http://www.understandingrace.org |
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Crimes Against Children Research Center (CCRC)
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This mission of this organization, concerned with children and adolescents from birth through age 17, is to "combat crimes against children by providing research and statistics to the public, policy makers, law enforcement, and child welfare pra ...
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http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/ |
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Ashoka
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Website for this global association of social entrepreneurs "with system changing solutions for the world's most urgent social problems." Provides publications on social entrepreneurship, videos of speeches by Ashoka fellows, and informatio ...
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http://www.ashoka.org/ |
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Genetically Engineered Animals
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Collection of documents related to draft guidance released September 18, 2008, by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine "to clarify the Agency's regulation of Genetically Engineered (GE) Animals." Includ ...
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http://www.fda.gov/cvm/GEAnimals.htm |
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Latino Issues Forum (LIF)
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LIF "is a non-profit public policy and advocacy institute [in California] dedicated to advancing new and innovative public policy solutions for a better, more equitable, and prosperous society." Website provides a description of core progra ...
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http://www.lif.org/ |
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State Embryonic and Fetal Research Laws
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Comparison of state laws relating to embryonic stem cell and fetal research, with charts showing whether each state specifically permits research on a fetus or embryo, restricts research on the aborted fetus or fetus/embryo resulting from sources ...
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http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/genetics/embfet.htm |
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