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7 Feb 2013, 12:04 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Religious freedom means we all have the right to hold our own beliefs, but it does not give one group the right to impose its beliefs on its employees or customers. [read post]
This law is so broad that it could prevent groups from even discussing abortion or other reproductive health services with women in crisis. [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 11:07 am by Peter Snyder
In his first speech [text] before the UN Human Rights Council [official website] Al Hussein said that "dedicated efforts are urgently needed to protect religious and ethnic groups, children—who are at risk of forcible recruitment and sexual violence—and women, who have been the targets of severe restrictions. [read post]
7 May 2013, 5:08 am by Sean Patrick Donlan
Greetings, The ABA Section of International Law has been invited again by the World Bank Group's Women, Business, and the Law Project (WBL) to contribute by completing questionnaires for the 2014 edition of the Women, Business and the Law report. [read post]
26 Jan 2017, 9:20 am by Laura Mikeworth
The court was comprised of three men, led by Chief Justice Edward Ryan, a man known for his vocal opposition to women’s rights. [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 9:00 am
Women - It was reported on March 29, 2010, that the Ugandan Constitutional Court, in what appears to be a major blow to women's rights groups, rejected a petition for abolishing the traditional practice of bride price (dowry)... [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 7:34 am
Medea Benjamin [Wikipedia profile] and Tighe Barry are members of the US-based human rights group Global Exchange and the women's peace group CODEPINK [advocacy websites] and were protesting emergency rule, the dismissal of the [read post]
27 Jul 2018, 1:21 pm by Christopher Hsu
A group of independent UN human rights experts called [report, PDF] upon Bahrain to end human rights violations and investigate events surrounding the State of National Safety declared in 2011. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
   There are many moments in which ‘progress’ in the sexual rights claims of one group has been made by the strategic clambering of one group  up the ladder of respectability over the backs of others. [read post]
10 May 2022, 11:41 am by JURIST Staff
In the very first days after the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, they were saying that they had changed and they respected human rights and women’s rights, but these days we are witnessing that words are not enough, and there is no change in this illiterate, cruel, bigoted and rough group. [read post]
3 Nov 2007, 11:28 pm
  Previously on the DC Metro Area Medical Malpractice Law Blog, we have posted articles related to: Questions you should ask your doctor if you've been diagnosed with colorectal cancer Evidence that men reap even greater benefits from early colonoscopy cancer screening A legal group that recently issued DC a failing grade for women's health services For information about your legal rights, please click here or call the law firm of… [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 5:16 am
New Philadelphia Group Focuses on Lawyers Who are Mothers Percentage of Women, Minority Attorneys at Texas Firms Holds Steady Law Professor Catharine MacKinnon Discusses Women's Rights Women a Big Force in Business, Study Finds Lawyer Suaad Allami Spearheads Program to  Aid Iraqi Women read more [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 3:00 am by Lisa Davis
ISIS’ atrocities s come at a time when the rights of women and of LGBTIQ people are under threat globally, Last fall, right-wing conservatives curtailed women’s and LGBTIQ rights in Colombia’s peace accord. [read post]
28 Mar 2022, 6:40 pm by Ana Popovich
She is also the co-host of the annual Whistleblower Summit for Civil and Human Rights, which each year awards a defender of the First Amendment rights the prestigious Pillar Award. [read post]
Now, with the support of organizations like the Rhode Island State Nurses Association, the Rhode Island Medical Society, Rhode Island NOW, and other local advocacy groups, we are proud to say that the ACLU of Rhode Island lobbied successfully to protect the rights of pregnant women in our jails and prisons. [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 5:52 am by Howard Friedman
This week, 90 religious, educational, civil rights, labor, LGBT, women’s, and health groups signed a joint letter (full text) to Attorney General Eric Holder asking that the Office of Legal Counsel withdraw the Bush Administration's June 29,  2007 memo allowing faith-based organization that receive federal grant funds to give a preference to co-religionists in hiring. [read post]
It concluded that forced sterilization raised all the rights in the first group, and that these rights were violated in I.V. [read post]