The state passed its COVID-19 Recovery Budget that included public safety measures such as setting up their first physical office to be devoted to the missing and murdered Indigenous women movement.
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Allowing businesses to ban item of clothing at work will exclude Muslim women and encourage Islamophobia, critics say
Turkey’s cabinet ministers have criticised a European Union court’s decision to allow employers to ban headscarves from their workplaces, saying it is “a blow to the rights of Muslim women” and that it would “grant legitimacy to racism”.
The EU’s highest court, the European court of justice (ECJ), on Thursday ruled that private employers can ban workers from wearing religious symbols, including headscarves in their workplaces.
Related: Les Hijabeuses: the female footballers tackling France’s on-pitch hijab ban
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Indigenous environmental protectors opposing the expansion of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline, Tara Houska and Winona LaDuke, represented by the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, a project of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, and EarthRights International, today filed for a restraining order against Hubbard County, Sheriff Cory Aukes and the local land commissioner in northern Minnesota.
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On Wednesday, Governor Kate Brown signed legislation into law prohibiting law enforcement officers from using deception while interrogating people under the age of 18. The law bans commonly used deceptive interrogation tactics, including false promises of leniency and false claims about the existence of incriminating evidence.
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Simon Coveney says plan would harm peace process and add ‘years of misery’ for families
Ireland’s foreign minister has warned that a British government plan to bring prosecutions for killings during the Troubles to an end would breach its international obligations.
The proposals would also undoubtedly be tested in the courts and add “years of uncertainty and misery for families with no benefit”, Simon Coveney said.
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Activists say Ramzan Kadyrov’s regime uses televised confessions ‘under duress’ to hold back women’s rights, despite changes in society
Khalimat Taramova, the 22-year-old daughter of a prominent Chechen businessman, sits demurely on a velvet sofa ornately embellished in gold. She is wearing a modest dress and a headscarf. With her on the sofa are three men dressed in suits. They are appearing on Grozny TV, the state television channel of Russia’s Chechen Republic.
Only a couple of weeks before the programme was shown on 14 June, Taramova fled her home, where she said she was subjected to violence after going against her family’s wishes. She sought help from a group of women’s rights activists, the Marem project , who let her stay in a flat owned by one of its members in the neighbouring republic of Dagestan. In a video released on social media on 6 June, she pleaded for the Chechen authorities not to come looking for her.
If a member of a family is publicly humiliated this downgrades them and their whole family
[Women] are more doubtful that they can ever escape the situation. They know the reach of the regime is so wide
Related: ‘They find you and shoot you’: Chechens in fear after third Kadyrov critic killed
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Prohibition can only be implemented against all religious symbols as part of a policy of neutrality
Private employers in the EU can ban people from wearing religious symbols, including headscarves, in order to present an image of neutrality, the bloc’s highest court has ruled.
Companies can ban headscarves provided such a prohibition is part of a policy against all religious and political symbols, the court said on Thursday, reaffirming a 2017 ruling. The latest judgment went further by examining the grounds employers can use when making such prohibitions.
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Asylum claims in the UK are at a historic low. These punitive measures will only force more people into legal limbo
We are living at a time where displacement is a major feature of life on this planet – but it’s one we have the resources to deal with. Faced with that reality, wealthy countries have a choice between acting in solidarity with the rest of the world’s population or pulling up the drawbridge.
Judging by the contents of the nationality and borders bill, which has its second reading in parliament on 19 and 20 July, the UK is opting for the latter. Although trailed by the home secretary, Priti Patel, who is the minister in charge, as a major reform of the country’s “broken” immigration system, its main effect will be to add an extra dose of cruelty to the existing arrangements.
Daniel Trilling is the author of Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe and Bloody Nasty People: the Rise of Britain’s Far Right
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While the 13th Amendment abolished chattel slavery, an often ignored clause still allows for slavery and involuntary servitude as “punishment for a crime.” This “slavery clause” is now the target of #EndTheException, a new campaign launched this year on Juneteenth weekend. #EndTheException is pushing for the passage of the Abolition Amendment, a joint resolution cosponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley and Rep. Nikema Williams, which would strike the slavery clause from the 13th Amendment making it so that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude may be imposed as a punishment for a crime.”
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When Robin Munro walked off Tiananmen Square – the very last foreigner to do so – as soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army moved in to flush out the students huddled around the Monument to the People’s Heroes in the early hours of 4 June 1989, he already knew how the Chinese Communist party would handle the next phase of these dramatic events.
“The students and intellectuals would, by and large, be spared,” he wrote in a watershed account published a year later in the US magazine the Nation. “The laobaixing [common people] on the other hand would be mercilessly punished in order to eradicate organised popular unrest for a generation.”
Munro is perhaps best remembered for revealing the dire conditions prevailing in Chinese urban orphanages
A hallmark of Munro’s personal philosophy was his dedication to helping individuals
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Illinois State Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz (D), who sponsored the bill, said in a statement that her legislation will “ensure that the next generation of Asian American students won’t need to attend law school to learn about their heritage.”
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Non-binding resolution also calls for governments to impose further sanctions on China as tensions rise
The European parliament has overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on diplomatic officials to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in response to continuing human rights abuses by the Chinese government.
In escalating tensions between the EU and China, the non-binding resolution also called for governments to impose further sanctions, provide emergency visas to Hong Kong journalists and further support Hongkongers to move to Europe.
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Most of these prosecutors have strictly tied their commitments to the duration of the pandemic. However, in March 2021, the Baltimore City State Attorney’s Office (SAO) announced that it will permanently instate its COVID-19 policy. Moving forward, the office said it will decline to prosecute crimes categorized as nonviolent, including Controlled Dangerous Substance (CDS, or drug) possession, attempted distribution of CDS, paraphernalia possession, sex work, trespassing, minor traffic offenses, open container, rogue and vagabond, and urinating/defecating in public.
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Action follows Viktor Orbán passing law banning LGBT content in schools and mishandling of EU funds
Ursula von der Leyen is being urged to suspend EU funds to Hungary to force Viktor Orbán to address concerns over politicised courts and corruption.
MEPs who work on the European parliament’s budgetary control committee are calling on the European Commission president to use a newly created EU law to freeze payments to Hungary for “grave breaches of the rule of law”.
Related: EU leaders to confront Hungary’s Viktor Orbán over LGBTQ+ rights
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Political rivals and human rights campaigners criticise use of inflammatory campaign material by Vox party
Human rights groups and politicians in Spain have spoken out after a court ruled that a controversial and false election poster for the far-right Vox party should not be withdrawn because it is legitimate political expression, and because the unaccompanied foreign minors it depicts in a relentlessly negative light are “an obvious social and political problem”.
The poster, which Vox used as part of its campaign in May’s bitterly contested Madrid regional election, was put up in a busy rail station in the capital and shows a hooded and masked dark-skinned youth alongside a white Spanish grandmother. It incorrectly suggests that refugee and migrant children in state care receive 10 times more in benefits each month than the average Spanish grandmother does in pension payments.
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Steven R. Donziger—the human rights attorney who in 2011 won a $9.5 billion legal victory in Ecuador over the Chevron Corporation for the dumping of roughly 16 billion gallons of toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon—has been under house arrest for 696 days. This unprecedented legal situation is happening in New York City, the hometown of the New York Times—but the paper of record has yet to report on Donziger’s arrest.
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Letter says Appleby horse fair will be criminalised under terms of new police bill
The Appleby horse fair is among Britain’s oldest and most colourful traditions. But this celebration in Cumbria and other Gypsy cultural events will be criminalised under new legislation planned by Priti Patel, Gypsy leaders have warned.
The market town of Appleby-in-Westmorland is transformed every summer by the annual gathering of members of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) community, with thousands of tourists flocking to watch horses being washed in the River Eden and to buy traditional Gypsy goods.
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Attorney Steven Donziger at his contempt of court trial (Intercept, 5/17/21) (photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Steven R. Donziger—the human rights attorney who in 2011 won a $9.5 billion legal victory in Ecuador over the Chevron Corporation for the dumping of roughly 16 billion gallons of toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon—has been under house arrest for 696 days (as of July 2) (FAIR.org, 9/11/20).
This unprecedented legal situation is happening in New York City, the hometown of the New York Times—but the paper of record has yet to report on Donziger’s arrest.
Manhattan Federal District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan brought a misdemeanor contempt of court charge against Donziger in August 2019, for which he could serve a maximum of 180 days in prison (Intercept, 5/17/21). Kaplan issued the charge after Donziger refused to turn over his computer, cell phone and passwords to Chevron, choosing instead to appeal Kaplan’s order on constitutional grounds.
In 1993, Donziger tried to get an ecocide case on behalf of Ecuadorian villagers heard by a US jury, but in 2002, Chevron convinced US courts to send the case to Ecuador, where the energy corporation had no seizable assets. Chevron then pressured US courts to get protection from the rulings being made against them in Ecuador.
Shortly thereafter, “Chevron ran back to US courts to attack Donziger” (Canary, 7/17/19), where Kaplan denied Donziger a jury trial and subsequently ruled in 2014 that the human rights attorney had defeated Chevron in Ecuador through “corrupt means.” Afterwards, when the Department of Justice (DoJ) under the Trump administration refused to prosecute Donizger, Kaplan made the extremely unusual decision to hire a private law firm to prosecute the case. (For a complete timeline of events related to Chevron v. Donziger, visit FreeDonziger.org.)
Theodore Boutrous, lawyer for the New York Times—and for Chevron.
The Times has not covered Chevron’s bizarre conflict with Donziger since 2014. Why has the paper kept silent for seven years?
Donziger pointed out on Twitter (3/17/21) that billionaire “Robert Denham sits on the boards of both Chevron and the NYT.” Later, noting that his apartment is just a 30-minute walk from the Times‘ offices, Donziger (Twitter, 6/24/21) added that the paper’s “main outside lawyer on press issues, Ted Boutrous Jr., also works for Chevron.”
Boutrous of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher was one of the lead lawyers representing Chevron in the Chevron v. Donziger proceedings. Regardless of whether the paper’s lawyer has had any influence over its Chevron reporting, the fact that the paper has retained the corporate lawyer to handle its freedom of the press issues reflects its priorities as a news organization.
“Donziger’s current prohibition from working, traveling, earning money and leaving his home shows how successful Chevron’s strategy has been,” reported the Intercept‘s Sharon Lerner (1/29/21).
Democracy Now! (3/15/21) reported that Chevron “ended Donziger’s legal career” with its judicial onslaught against him, which involved “dozens of law firms.” Scores of environmentalists, activists and lawyers have called for an end to this ongoing persecution.
Investigative reporter Sharon Lerner (Intercept, 1/29/21) described the legal assault on Donziger as “one of the most bitter and drawn-out cases in the history of environmental law,” adding that Chevron hired
private investigators to track Donziger, created a publication to smear him, and put together a legal team of hundreds of lawyers from 60 firms, who have successfully pursued an extraordinary campaign against him.
To choose a judge to preside over Donziger’s prosecution, Lerner reported, Kaplan “bypassed the standard random assignment process and handpicked someone he knew well, US District Judge Loretta Preska, to oversee the case being prosecuted by the firm he chose” (Intercept, 1/29/20). The Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia (FDA)—a grassroots organization in Ecuador’s northern Amazon region that has sought to hold Chevron accountable—pointed out in a blog post (12/31/20) that Preska is affiliated with the Federalist Society—“a pro-corporate society of lawyers and judges to which Chevron is a major donor.” The FDA (4/7/21) later complained that Preska “denied all Zoom access” to Donziger’s trial, which would proceed with “a biased judge, no jury and a private Chevron prosecutor.”
Martin Garbus, Donziger’s defense attorney, filed a motion on June 22 alleging that appointment of a private prosecutor in Chevron v. Donziger was unconstitutional (citing the recent US Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Arthrex). In the filing, Garbus described the “prosecutorial crusade” as “deeply troubling” (Twitter, 6/23/21).
Common Dreams (10/27/15) reported that “Chevron’s payments to Guerra for his false testimony” included “some $12,000 per month, plus other perks which included a car, healthcare, and relocating him and his family to the United States.”
The legal foundation for everything Donziger is going through today is Kaplan’s 2014 ruling that Donziger beat Chevron in Ecuador through corrupt means. But that judgment rests very heavily on the testimony of a defrocked Ecuadorian judge, Alberto Guerra, who was handsomely rewarded by Chevron for his testimony that he now says was fabricated. Guerra’s name appears an average of about once per page in Kaplan’s 500-page ruling.
In total, the Times has published three news articles—two in 2013 (11/13/13, 11/19/13) and one in 2014 (3/4/14)—about the Donziger case. Each of them had the byline of Clifford Krauss, the Times‘ “national energy business correspondent” based in Houston. The Times’ reporting was largely anchored in Guerra’s testimony, whose claims to have been bribed by Donziger–later revealed to be lies–constituted the thrust of Kaplan’s judgment.
“[Chevron v. Donziger] largely hung on Chevron’s star witness, Alberto Guerra, a former Ecuadorian judge who has admitted to receiving substantial amounts of money and other benefits to cooperate with Chevron,” Vice (10/26/15) reported, adding that Guerra confessed that
large parts of his sworn testimony, used by Kaplan in the RICO case to block enforcement of the ruling against Chevron, were exaggerated and, in other cases, simply not true.
National corporate media coverage of Chevron v. Donziger has largely favored Chevron (FAIR.org, 9/11/20). Outlets like Reuters paid little attention to how Indigenous Ecuadorians have suffered from the detriments of illegal dumping—let alone Chevron’s now-exposed strategy to demonize Donziger (Intercept, 1/29/20).
The last story that the Times published on the subject was an opinion piece by business columnist Joe Nocera, who explored the “darker narrative about Donziger” (9/22/14)—a narrative that Bloomberg business writer Paul Barrett laid out in his book Law of the Jungle. Like Barrett, Nocera depicted Donziger as a “rogue lawyer willing to do virtually anything to win.”
In his lifetime of litigation against big oil, Donziger has fought to hold corporations accountable for placing their own profits over the well-being of Indigenous Ecuadorians living in the Ecuadorian Amazon. As writer Joe Emersberger (FAIR.org, 9/11/20) put it, bullies like Chevron
are usually served by US judges, lawyers and corporate journalists. That’s the path a Harvard Law graduate like Donziger could easily have taken. He is being brutally punished for not taking it.
Donziger’s persecution by Chevron is happening in the Times’ own backyard, but the paper has ignored this high-profile case for at least seven years. As the human rights attorney said in an interview with BreakThrough News (6/5/21):
No matter what you think of me or Judge Kaplan, isn’t it newsworthy that an American lawyer is under house arrest for two years on a misdemeanor? It’s just a newsworthy story!
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The B.C. Supreme Court has found the B.C. government infringed the Blueberry River First Nation’s treaty rights by allowing decades of industrial development in their traditional territory.
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As Turkey quits the Istanbul convention, Gülsüm Kav’s group We Will Stop Femicide is helping keep women alive amid a rise in gender-based violence
“History is on our side,” says Gülsüm Kav. She leans in and speaks intensely. She has a lot to say: Kav helped create Turkey’s We Will Stop Femicide (WWSF) group, and has become one of the country’s leading feminist activists even as the political environment has grown more hostile.
Amid protests, Turkey withdrew from the Istanbul convention, the landmark international treaty to prevent violence against women and promote equality, on Thursday. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has long attacked women’s rights and gender equality, suggesting that feminists “reject the concept of motherhood”, speaking out against abortion and even caesarean sections, and claiming that gender equality is “against nature”.
Related: Protests as Turkey pulls out of treaty to protect women
These woman are fundamentally changing what it means to be a woman in Turkey and yet male violence is suppressing it
Related: Murder in Turkey sparks outrage over rising violence against women
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We should be deeply pained by the way we are with the stranger who lives in our midst, writes Alexandra Wright, senior rabbi at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue
Priti Patel’s proposed legislation to send asylum seekers overseas while their claims or appeals are pending is ruthless (Report, 28 June).
There are 41,700 asylum seekers or resettled persons in the UK. Many have been waiting for years for their claim to be dealt with by the Home Office. They live in poor and often squalid dispersal accommodation, on less than £40 per week. They cannot work. Poverty and uncertainty often lead to serious physical and mental health issues in asylum seekers and their children.
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MP to take over private member’s bill proposed by Sajid Javid to raise legal age to 18, after his promotion to health secretary
The MP Pauline Latham will step in to adopt Sajid Javid’s private member’s bill to end child marriage after his promotion to health secretary.
Javid presented a bill raising the minimum legal age of marriage to 18 in England and Wales to parliament earlier this month, but is not able to take it forward because he is no longer a backbencher.
Related: Government pledges to raise legal age of marriage to 18 in England and Wales
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Washington — The Supreme Court today declined to hear Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board, allowing lower court decisions in support of transgender students to stand.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit have both ruled that the school board violated Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause by prohibiting Grimm from using the same restrooms as other boys and forcing him to use separate restrooms.
The Supreme Court was scheduled to hear Grimm’s case at an earlier stage of the litigation in 2017, but the case was sent back to the lower courts after the Trump administration withdrew the government’s support for Grimm’s claims.
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Report launched in aftermath of George Floyd murder cites example of 2018 death of Kevin Clarke in UK
A UN report that analysed racial justice in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd has called on member states including the UK to end the “impunity” enjoyed by police officers who violate the human rights of black people.
The UN human rights office analysis of 190 deaths across the world led to the report’s damning conclusion that law enforcement officers are rarely held accountable for killing black people due in part to deficient investigations and an unwillingness to acknowledge the impact of structural racism.
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Investigators in Germany are using Google Earth, YouTube clips and social media posts to bring political crimes to the courts
With its high ceilings, white walls and bleached pine furniture it could be one of the many artist’s studios or galleries that dot this corner of central Berlin. A grey curtain with plastic holes, stitched together by Franco-Italian artist Céline Condorelli, snakes between desks to divide the room into public and private spaces.
In fact, this second-floor space inside a beige brick former soap factory is something closer to a newsroom or a detective agency, tripling up as a lawyers’ chambers. Next month it will formally be launched as the home of the Investigative Commons, a kind of super-hub for organisations whose work has revolutionised the field of human rights activism.
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A major witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder.
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The act, plus legal aid, helped my family to secure the help we desperately needed. Attempts to undermine it put us all at risk
If anyone had told me that my family would ever need disability benefits, legal aid or the Human Rights Act, I wouldn’t have believed them. I am sharing my story because my fear is that when the next family comes to need these same things, they will not be there.
Cameron was the youngest of our four wonderful children. He was born in 2007, and it quickly became clear he was very ill. He had to be rushed to Alder Hey children’s hospital for emergency surgery when he was only three days old. He was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, then at 18 months we learned that he had Duchenne muscular dystrophy too. I remember the consultant telling us with tears in his eyes that Duchenne was a severely life-limiting condition and my wife and I replying in unison that it would not limit Cameron’s life.
You see, we had already begged him to fight when he was three days old and promised him that if he could not live long, then we would do all we could to help him live fast. He took us at our word, and lived a life of love and laughter, pedal to the metal and without fear, for five and a quarter magical years, despite all that was thrown at him.
This coming Saturday would have been his 14th birthday, a day we celebrate his life and the happiness of his childhood despite extraordinary challenges. Two years after Cameron’s death, we won a landmark appeal that allowed us, and other parents in our position, to continue claiming disability living allowance while caring for Cameron in hospital – after those benefits were taken away from us. This year is also one that brings me a great deal of trepidation about the direction of travel for justice, rights and protections in this country.
I am saddened that the government now appears to be seeking to further reduce protections for all of us by watering down the Human Rights Act – the legislation on which we based our case – via the current review being conducted by a former judge. The Human Rights Act is not just one of the ways for UK citizens to challenge government decisions we deem to be unfair: it is really the only way.
That should scare everyone in this country. Of course, I hope no one else finds themselves in the position my family and I found ourselves in, but it could be any one of us.
The interplay between Cameron’s conditions and a blood-clotting disorder they caused was devastating, and my wife and I had to give up work to care for him during long, repeated stays in hospital, through surgery after surgery, struggling to get him home again with his sister and brothers.
We did not claim any benefits for Cameron until we had spent all of our savings and sold every last asset. Then, we reluctantly accepted that we had reached the end of the line and had to ask the state for help. We count ourselves lucky to this day that we live in a country that allowed us to effectively retire during Cameron’s life to do our best for him and his siblings. A country where generations of us selflessly pay in to help others, without thought for what and when we may ever get back.
Craig Mathieson is a father and husband who is supporting Amnesty’s campaign to keep the Human Rights Act
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Patsy Stevenson is preparing to initiate legal proceedings unless Met withdraw fixed penalty notice
A woman who was arrested at a London vigil for Sarah Everard has said she is preparing to initiate legal proceedings against the Metropolitan police unless they withdraw the fixed penalty notice they imposed on her.
The image of 28-year-old physics student Patsy Stevenson being pinned to the floor by two male police officers, hands held behind her back, on 13 March was one of the defining images in criticism of how the vigil on Clapham Common was policed.
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This year, the celebration occurs under the cloud of more than 125 anti-LGBTQ bills that have been introduced in state legislatures, many targeting children who identify as transgender by denying them access to lifesaving medical treatment, banning them from participating in sports or using the restroom. This is up markedly from last year when more than 40 such bills were introduced.
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