Bay Briefing: California will open mass vaccination centers - but they re not for everyone just yet
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Mario Jones (left), with the Oakland Fire Department, gets his second dosage of the Pfizer vaccine from nurse Virginia Barrett (right) at St. Rose Hospital on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in Hayward, California. They were administering both the first dosage and second dosage of the vaccine.Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Tuesday, Jan. 12, and Bay Area tech firms are changing policies in the wake of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
One step closer to inclusionary housing in Cape Town
14 Dec 2020
Recouping public good in the form of affordable housing from private developments is a powerful tool with which to tackle equitable access to land and the right to a home.
The recent settlement of litigation around The Vogue property development between Ndifuna Ukwazi (NU) and the City of Cape Town (the City) inches our city one step closer to a more just and equal Cape Town.
“Litigation is a political tool that, when used strategically, can stimulate meaningful change and complement other political efforts” according to Scott Cummings and Deborah Rhode. Making use of this tool to advance change, the Vogue application (
Women leaders and jurists honour the work and life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Human Rights Day As part of the Leaders for Generation Equality campaign, UN Women, together with Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession, Stanford Law School Center on the Legal Profession, and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, paid tribute to the global legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a high-level interactive discussion with eminent leaders, jurists and experts across the world on International Human Rights Day 2020. Date: Thursday, December 10, 2020
On International Human Rights Day 2020, at a global, virtual interactive event, UN Women and partners convened an intergenerational, high-level group of women leaders and jurists to reflect on the transformative impact of Justice Ginsburg’s work on equality in the law and in life.
host: the beauty bias the injustice of appearance in life and law written by stanford law professor deborah roadie. what sparked this book? shoes actually. [laughter] which it is not at the top of the women s rights agenda in a country where 20 million women levin poverty or victims of domestic violence would not say that is the number-one issue of concern but it is what got me thinking about all the ways women are held back literally and figuratively by their shoes and it was with the group of high-powered women at a meeting of the american bar association commission on women and tried to get between distant meeting points in there was a huge line and a bomb scare in the to ban the queen mother is having her birthday and we needed to walk and i was with three women who were unable to do this given the choices of their fall where. and i was struck by that experience and coming back on the plane from london was reading one of the tabloids this summer issues about shoe s