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...workers and Union. Groups such as the Student Labor Action Movement and the Stand for Security Coalition organized extensive protests and even a nine-day hunger strike, which resulted in the hospitalization of two undergraduates, to encourage the University to intervene in the contract negotiations. The activism prompted University human resource officials to seek an expedited audit of AlliedBarton to ensure that the subcontractor met the University's hiring and wage parity requirements for in-house and outsourced workers...
...According to a recent University human resources report, 19 staff members out of 59 eligible employees accepted buyout packages at HKS. University spokesman Kevin Galvin has said in the past that the average participant in the University's buyout program had an annual salary of $67,000 and that the reductions were split half-and-half between hourly employees and administrative and professional staff...
...increased its number of faculty positions in the late 1990s and early 2000s by almost 40 percent, and new programs such as the Center for Public Leadership and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy were launched largely through deficit spending. These initiatives had been paid for during economic booms by the growing endowment, but when the national economy slumped early in the decade, the expenditures coalesced into a deficit and forced HKS officials to take steps to eliminate the budget gap. Overhead costs, for everything from electricity bills to equipment, were furthermore magnified by the School's expansion...
Walid's story is hardly unusual, judging from a report on the Israeli military-justice system in the West Bank compiled by the Palestine office of the Geneva-based Defense for Children International, which works closely with the U.N. and European states. Human-rights groups in Israel and elsewhere have also condemned the punishment meted out to Palestinian children by Israeli military justice. Most onerous, says Sarit Michaeli of the Israeli human-rights group B'Tselem, is that inside the territories, the Israeli military deems any Palestinian who is 16 years and older as an adult, while inside Israel...
According to the Israeli human-rights group Breaking the Silence, a few Israeli soldiers are alarmed by their own troops' behavior. The group cites the testimony of two officers who complained before a military court that during an operation last March in Hares village, soldiers herded 150 male villagers, some as young as 14, into a schoolyard in the middle of the night, where they were kept bound, blindfolded and beaten over the course of more than 12 hours...