Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director Headlines — ironically, given this subject — have proclaimed for some time that newspapers in the United States are dying, have documented bankruptcy filings by companies that own large news groups, and have noted thousands of[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Alito Is Right: Schools Are Not Religion-Free Zones
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes Director, Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum Just when I think religious liberty is alive and well in public schools, a school district does something bizarre to give the First Amendment a bad name. The latest poster-case for misbegotten efforts[Read More…]
Haiti: UN Agency Ramping Up Food Aid Ahead of Upcoming Rains, Hurricane Season
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–20 April 2010 – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is ramping up its assistance in Haiti, pre-positioning rations and distributing meals to those displaced by January’s earthquake ahead of the approaching rains and the upcoming hurricane season. More than 200,000 people were killed by the 12 January[Read More…]
UN Human Rights Expert Welcomes British Law to Stop Predatory Financial Funds
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–20 April 2010 – A United Nations human rights expert on foreign debt today welcomed a landmark debt relief law in the United Kingdom which limits the ability of so-called “vulture funds” to sue the world’s poorest countries in British courts for repayment of debts, saying they could have[Read More…]
UN Agency Urges Australia to Look for Alternatives to Detaining Asylum-Seekers
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–20 April 2010 – The United Nations refugee agency has urged Australia to look for alternatives to detaining asylum-seekers arriving by boat who pose no health or security risk to the public, after the Government announced it will reopen a remote facility to house them. Last week the Government[Read More…]
ISAC Announces Monetary Award Program Suspension
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2010. The Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC) has suspended Monetary Award Program (MAP) award announcements for 2010-2011, effective Monday, April 19, based on record need and the assumption of level funding at approximately $400 million. “For those who apply after the suspense date, it’s like being on a[Read More…]
Pirates Head East to Counter EU NAVFOR Success
Northwood, Middlesex–(ENEWSPF)–20 April 2010. On 18th April 2010, three Thai fishing vessels from Djibouti, were hijacked 1200 nautical miles east of the coast of Somalia. These latest hijackings are the furthest east of any pirate attacks in the area since the start of EU NAVFOR’s Operation Atalanta in December 2008,[Read More…]
Statement by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Elections in Sudan
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2010. The elections held recently in Sudan were an essential step in a process laid out by Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement. The United States notes the initial assessment of independent electoral observers that Sudan’s elections did not meet international standards. Political rights and freedoms were circumscribed throughout[Read More…]
Presidential Proclamation — National Equal Pay Day
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2010. Throughout our Nation’s history, extraordinary women have broken barriers to achieve their dreams and blazed trails so their daughters would not face similar obstacles. Despite decades of progress, pay inequity still hinders women and their families across our country. National Equal Pay Day symbolizes the day[Read More…]
Remarks by President Obama at Dinner for Senator Boxer and the DNC
Los Angeles, CA–(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2010 – 8:01 P.M. PDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! Hello, hello, hello! (Applause.) Thank you, everybody. Please have a seat. Have a seat. I’ve got so many good friends in this magnificent setting that I don’t want to single anybody out, but there are a couple[Read More…]
