Janet Lord

Oct 25, 2024 | justsecurity.org | Michael Stein |Janet Lord |Paras Shah |Clara Apt

For five years, Christopher Smith, a man with intellectual disabilities, was forced to work 100 hours per week at a South Carolina restaurant without pay. Smith faced verbal and physical abuse at the hands of his employer. Around the world, persons with disabilities like Smith face many modern forms of enslavement, from forced labor and begging to sexual exploitation and imprisonment by caregivers.

Sep 26, 2024 | tribdem.com | Janet Lord

Do the law-abiding, taxpaying Americans need to hire Pinkertons to descend on Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg? I feel that the American dream is dead. I decided to work, rather than stay on welfare, to keep my children from the government reeducation camps and even college, plus seeing entitlement recipients eat way better than your average American employee. When you try explaining your frustrations to the overpaid legislators – if you can even get a chance to speak with them – they do not care.

Aug 21, 2024 | justsecurity.org | Janet Lord |Pace Schwarz |Matthew Smith |Michael Stein |Alex Green |Rosemary Kayess

Although the prohibition of the slave trade is one of the oldest peremptory norms of international law, its absence from the Rome Statute – the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC) – created a gap in international law that has yet to be filled. While the ICC’s framework accounts for the crime of enslavement, it neglects the legally distinct, but related, crime of the slave trade (i.e., criminalizing the intent to initiate or maintain a person’s enslavement).

Aug 12, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Janet Lord |Julie Paschkis |James Dean |Craig Smith

Pete’s fans might find it groovy; anyone else has plenty of other “12 Days of Christmas” variants to choose amongPete, the cat who couldn’t care less, celebrates Christmas with his inimitable lassitude. If it weren’t part of the title and repeated on every other page, readers unfamiliar with Pete’s shtick might have a hard time arriving at “groovy” to describe his Christmas celebration, as the expressionless cat displays not a hint of groove in Dean’s now-trademark illustrations.

Dec 5, 2023 | fpif.org | Janet Lord |John Feffer

December 3 marks International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Also being celebrated this December are the seventy-fifth anniversaries of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the foundational human rights instrument of modern international human rights law adopted on December 9, 1948, and the Genocide Convention, the first human rights treaty adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 9, 1948.