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. “I salute the resilience and generosity of these communities, despite their own precarious circumstances, and encourage the Government to provide durable solutions for these displaced populations. The post UN expert praises Ivory Coast humanitarian efforts and urges legal reform appeared first on JURIST - News.
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Your Premier” that her provincial government is prepared to invoke the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ “notwithstanding clause” as a “last resort” to enforce proposed restrictions on transgender healthcare and related policies, circumventing rights enshrined in the Charter.
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