* Derek Allan, Art and the Human Adventure, Andre Malraux's Theory of Art, Rodopi, 2009

On the eve of the National Equality March in Washington, D. C., October 10, 2009, Obama stated in a speech before the Human Rights Campaign that he would end the ban, but he offered no timetable.

On October 10, 2009, Obama stated in a speech before the Human Rights Campaign that he would end the ban, but set no date.

Al-Libi had been visited in April 2009 by a team from Human Rights Watch, who were reportedly " stunned " to discover al-Libi in Tripoli's Abu Salim prison during their fact-finding mission to Libya.

In December 2009, a 96-page report titled Human Rights in Ethiopia: Through the Eyes of the Oromo Diaspora, compiled by the Advocates for Human Rights, documented human rights violations against the Oromo in Ethiopia under three successive regimes: the Abyssinian Empire under Haile Selassie, the Marxist Derg and the current Ethiopian government of the Ethiopian People ’ s Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ), dominated by members of the Tigray People ’ s Liberation Front ( TPLF ) and which was accused to have arrested approximately 20, 000 suspected OLF members, to have driven most OLF leadership into exile, and to have effectively neutralized the OLF as a political force in Ethiopia.

Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever, a follow-up to Fantastic Voyage, was released on April 28, 2009 and Kurzweil's latest book, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, is scheduled for release on November 13, 2012.

The 2009 Human Rights Report by the United States Department of State noted serious concerns over human rights violations by the government and militia groups.

The Bitter Road to Freedom: The Human Cost of Allied Victory in World War II Europe ( 2009 ) pp 215 – 48

* Art and the Human Adventure: André Malraux's Theory of Art ( Amsterdam, Rodopi: 2009 ) Derek Allan

In 2009, Bacon narrated a National Geographic Channel show ' The Human Family Tree ' – a program charting the work of the Genographic Project and their work on the genetic interconnectedness of all humans.

In 2009, Shepherd was honored by the Human Rights Campaign in Atlanta to accept one of two National Ally for Equality awards.

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius was sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services by the United States Senate on April 29, 2009.

Robinson has received many awards and honours for his work in Canada and internationally for LGBT rights and in 2009 was the Co-Chair of the Copenhagen OUTGames International LGBT Human Rights Conference.

The final outcome document of the Durban Review Conference organized by the UN Human Rights Council, April 21, 2009, Deplores the global rise and number of incidents of racial or religious intolerance and violence, including Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Christianophobia and anti-Arabism

Tsinghua was ranked the 47th worldwide by QS World University Rankings in 2011, 58th worldwide by Times Higher Education World University Rankings in 2010, 36th worldwide in Human Resources & Labor Review's Best World Universities 2010, 49th worldwide by US News and World Report ( USNEWS ), 13th worldwide in the category of engineering and IT by USNEWS, 2009, and ranked 151 – 200 Worldwide in the Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2010.

* Richard Falk, ( 2009 ), ' Achieving Human Rights ', Routledge.

Two colleges and seven departments combined in 2009 to create the College of Education and Human Sciences.

Whilst the album is yet to materialise, on 9 December 2009, the band released the song " Chase the Tear " for Human Rights Day to raise money for Amnesty International UK.

* Operational Indicators of Trafficking in Human Beings 2009 ILO / SAP-FL

* Lists of Indicators of Trafficking in Human Beings 2009 ILO / SAP-FL

* Operational Indicators of Trafficking in Human Beings 2009 ILO / SAP-FL

* Lists of Indicators of Trafficking in Human Beings 2009 ILO / SAP-FL

* Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services since April 28, 2009 and a former governor of Kansas.

In 2009 the city of Grozny was honored by the UN Human Settlements Program for transforming the war scarred city and providing new homes for thousands.

* In November 2009, IKEA, along with Abercrombie & Fitch, Gymboree, Hanes, Kohl's, LL Bean, Pier 1, Propper International and Walmart, was added to the 2010 Sweatshop Hall of Shame by labour rights group International Labour Rights Forum.

The Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding ( Indianapolis: Liberty Fund Press, 2009 )

On March 9, 2009, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in Bartlett v. Strickland that the Voting Rights Act does not require governments to draw district lines favorable to minority candidates when the district has minorities as less than half of the population.

On April 1, 2009 it was announced that Entertainment Rights would be acquired by Boomerang Media and on May 11, 2009, it was announced that the subsidiaries and offices of Entertainment Rights would be absorbed under the name, Classic Media.

CELDF has been working for free to empower local communities across to the country, including assisting Spokane, Washington to put on the 2009 ballot a city Bill of Rights which includes the rights to have access to good health care, clean water, and a clean environment.

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As of 2009, Human Rights Watch had calculated that there were 2, 589 youth offenders serving life without parole in the United States.

* Berg, Allison, “ Trauma and Testimony in Black Women ’ s Civil Rights Memoirs: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It, Warriors Don ’ t Cry, and From the Mississippi Delta ,” Journal of Women ’ s History, 21 ( Fall 2009 ), 84 – 107.

On 24 September 2009, it was announced that Faces, minus Rod Stewart, would reunite for a one-off charity show for the Performing Rights Society's Music Members ' Benevolent Fund, at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Courts sometimes mandate its use as a remedy in lawsuits brought under the Voting Rights Act in the United States ; an example of this occurred in 2009 in Port Chester, New York., which had its first cumulative voting elections for its Board of Trustees in 2010 ..

In 2009, del Castillo was appointed Ambassador for the Mexican Commission on Human Rights and the following year she helped launch the Blue Heart Campaign in order to raise awareness and fight human trafficking.

On September 14, 2009, Patrick Robinson, President of the United Nations ' International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, said Plavšić " appears to have demonstrated substantial evidence of rehabilitation " and had accepted responsibility for her crimes.

At their meeting on 16 July 2009, the States of Deliberation resolved to establish a Tribunal by the Tribunals of Inquiry ( Evidence )( Guernsey ) Law, 1949, as amended to inquire into the facts and circumstances of the industrial action by the Airport Fire Fighters at Guernsey Airport during May 2009, including the circumstances in which the dispute was resolved.

The Resolution followed presentation of a Requête dated 29 June 2009 petitioning for a Tribunal of Inquiry to be established, signed by Deputy M M Lowe and seventeen other members of the States soon after the events being investigated.

During testimony at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal on April 27, 2009, Duch claimed the 10 security regulations were a fabrication of the Vietnamese officials that first set up the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.

* Special Tribunal for Lebanon ( since 2009 )

The Tribunal rejected the DOH view that personal information would be unreasonably endangered, and commented on the Department's duty to ensure compliance with the Abortion Act and its failure to scrutinise reporting forms " either clinically or substantively " ( Tribunal Decision, October 2009, paras 81, 82 ).

The Russell Tribunal on Palestine ( RToP ) was created in March 2009.

In November 2009, Sharon Abbott, a black female newspaper carrier, was awarded $ 5, 000 by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario ( HRTO ) on the basis that she had been arrested by police in early 2007 only because of her skin colour.

In October 2009, Human Rights adjudicator Faisal Bhabha ( who at the time served as the Vice-chair of the Tribunal ), ordered Maxcine Telfer, the operator of Audmax Inc., a settlement service that contracts with the federal government to help immigrant women fit into Canadian society, to pay $ 36, 000 to Seema Saadi for terminating her employment after six weeks.

The Tribunal hearings are scheduled to take place in 2009.

In December 2009 Neeson was appointed to the Human Rights Review Tribunal.

He was found guilty of numerous war crimes between October 2003 and May 2006 and was sentenced to death by the Kipushi Military Tribunal in Katanga Province on March 6th, 2009.

On 1 May 2009, Habib lost an appeal in the Full Federal Court against a 2007 Administrative Appeals Tribunal ( AAT ) decision that affirmed the former Foreign Affairs minister's decision in 2006 to refuse Mr Habib an Australian passport.

On 12 November 2009, the Tribunal Appeals Chamber partially affirmed the convictions and reduced the sentence to 29 years.

Following the passage of the 2009 Constitution, the National Electoral Court was replaced in late 2010 by a fourth branch of government, the Plurinational Electoral Organ, whose highest body is the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.

In April 2009 the Tribunal of Venice sent the issue to the Constitutional Court, raising a possible conflict between the Civil Code, which does not allow for same-sex marriage, article 3 of the Italian Constitution, which forbids any kind of discrimination, and article 29, which states an ambiguous gender-neutral definition of marriage.

Hays had its fine cut by the Competition Appeal Tribunal from £ 30. 4m to £ 5. 9m following an appeal against the level of a fine imposed by the Office of Fair Trading in September 2009.

* John Chaney ( 10 February 2009 ) ( seconded as President of the State Administrative Tribunal )

On 9 September 2003 the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found him " guilty of conduct unbefitting a solicitor ..." On 15 October 2009 he voluntarily removed himself from the Roll.