U.S. - Massachusetts regulator says phone-service firm runs pyramid scheme Massachusetts' top securities regulator on Tuesday charged a company that marketed online telephone services with running a $1 billion pyramid scheme that targeted minorities, including Brazilian-Americans. William Galvin, Massachusetts' secretary of state, said that TelexFREE Inc offered fraudulent and unregistered securities in the state while making false promises to potential participants that they could get rich quickly. "Pyramid schemes are nothing new, nor are schemes that target a specific group, but modern communications gives them instant world-wide scope," Galvin said in a statement. _____________________________________________________ New treaty allows children to complain about rights violations directly to the UN United Nations child rights experts on Monday praised the new Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure, which grants children access to international human rights protections by allowing minors to complain directly to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRD) about the violation of their rights. The Protocol permits children or their representatives to submit formal complaints, upon which the CRD must review the allegations and decide whether to take action.If a rights violation is found to have the proper grounds, the CRD must then recommend to the nation at issue specific and mandatory procedures to remedy the violations. According to the UN, the Protocol effectively places children on equal legal footing with adults with respect to several international treaties.
U.S. - Massachusetts regulator says phone-service firm runs pyramid scheme Massachusetts' top securities regulator on Tuesday charged a company that marketed online telephone services with running a $1 billion pyramid scheme that targeted minorities, including Brazilian-Americans. William Galvin, Massachusetts' secretary of state, said that TelexFREE Inc offered fraudulent and unregistered securities in the state while making false promises to potential participants that they could get rich quickly. "Pyramid schemes are nothing new, nor are schemes that target a specific group, but modern communications gives them instant world-wide scope," Galvin said in a statement. _____________________________________________________ New treaty allows children to complain about rights violations directly to the UN
U.S. - Massachusetts regulator says phone-service firm runs pyramid scheme
Massachusetts' top securities regulator on Tuesday charged a company that marketed online telephone services with running a $1 billion pyramid scheme that targeted minorities, including Brazilian-Americans.
William Galvin, Massachusetts' secretary of state, said that TelexFREE Inc offered fraudulent and unregistered securities in the state while making false promises to potential participants that they could get rich quickly.
"Pyramid schemes are nothing new, nor are schemes that target a specific group, but modern communications gives them instant world-wide scope," Galvin said in a statement.
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New treaty allows children to complain about rights violations directly to the UN
United Nations child rights experts on Monday praised the new Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure, which grants children access to international human rights protections by allowing minors to complain directly to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRD) about the violation of their rights.
The Protocol permits children or their representatives to submit formal complaints, upon which the CRD must review the allegations and decide whether to take action.If a rights violation is found to have the proper grounds, the CRD must then recommend to the nation at issue specific and mandatory procedures to remedy the violations. According to the UN, the Protocol effectively places children on equal legal footing with adults with respect to several international treaties.
Italy court orders Berlusconi to perform community service at center for elderly
The order was requested by Berlusconi, a three-time prime minister, media magnate and billionaire, as a way to serve the remaining year of a four-year sentence, the first three years having been covered by amnesties. Berlusconi, 77, is legally considered too old to serve prison time and would have been subjected to house arrest had he not consented to community service.
UN rights expert urges UK to improve responses to violence against women
Iraq government temporarily closes Abu Ghraib prison
UN report finds rights violations in Ukraine
U.S. - Federal appeals court upholds EPA regulations
Annual corporate partners meeting
The annual meetings are the means by which the law obliges the Companies to provide its partners with the opportunity of analyzing the economical results of each fiscal year and approve or discuss them with other partners or administrators.
Published a new Joint Ministerial Ordinance that deals with rural real property acquisitions made between 1994 and 2010, by national legal entities controlled by foreigners
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