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26 Dec 2015, 6:29 pm by Howard Friedman
"The EEOC rules that discrimination on basis of sexual orientation is barred by the "sex discrimination" ban in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.The Supreme Court holds that specialty license plates  are government speech, thus impacting the many cases on license plates with religious themes or symbols.The successful referendum to overturn Houston's Equal Rights Ordinance positions the battle over transgender rights as… [read post]
8 Jul 2009, 10:57 am
Elections and Ethics Board decided that a referendum on the law could not qualify for the ballot because it violates the District's Human Rights Act. [read post]
18 May 2024, 12:05 pm by Gene Takagi
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP): Played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement, advocating for racial equality and desegregation. [read post]
19 Dec 2012, 2:00 am by Mary Ziegler
In fact, in debate about marriage equality and abortion, conscientious refusal today is more relevant today than ever. [read post]
5 Sep 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
‘Our Natives Have No Constitutional Right to Equal Privileges with White People’ Western Australia’s Natives (Citizenship Rights) Act 1944 Peter Prince7. [read post]
23 Aug 2014, 5:49 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.
The questions to be addressed concern the Canadian  Charter of Rights (Right to life, Equality, Fundamental justice). [read post]
4 Jul 2018, 11:36 am by Gene Takagi
All Men are Created Equal The most well-known sentence from the Declaration isn’t as self-evident as many of us would like to believe: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. [read post]
29 May 2012, 10:28 am by Big Tent Democrat
David Brooks has every right to advocate for a return to Lochnerism. [read post]
16 Jul 2011, 5:09 pm
But human rights advocates, including Human Rights Watch, have focused primarily on the implications of S.B. 1070 for U.S. compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 10:45 am by EEM
Below are examples from some of the organizations that responded to the call:Immigration Detention Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (International Detention Coalition, Feb. 2012) [text]Report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants: Detention of Migrants in the United States (Advocates for Human Rights & the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Jan. 2012)… [read post]
18 Jun 2018, 5:37 am by Pascale Lorber
Those claims were dependent on qualifying as (i) an employee for the irregular termination of his contract under the Employment Rights Act (ERA) 1996, (ii) a worker for recovering wages under ERA 1996, (iii) a worker for the access to annual leave pay under the Working Time Regulations (WTR) 1998 and as (iv) employee or in employment to qualify for the protection of equality law under the Equality Act 2010. [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 11:30 am
Even in deeply blue California, where Obama won by over 20% of the vote, voters decided to reverse a liberal Supreme Court ruling on gay rights and deny gays and lesbians equal opportunity to marry. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 9:29 am by Howard Friedman
”...Petitioners remain free to advocate the idea that same-sex marriage betrays God’s laws.... [read post]
25 Jul 2024, 3:56 am by jonathanturley
The state itself has moved aggressively against free speech rights of doctors and others in areas like abortion. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 11:57 am
Canadian citizen Omar Khadr and human rights advocates certainly are hoping it's case of the latter. [read post]
15 May 2013, 10:28 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
The LGBT community and those who advocate for LGBT people need to be vigilant in opposing these efforts to discriminate. [read post]
28 Aug 2018, 5:55 am by Josephine Jarpa Dawuni
One such mechanism is the activist agenda to achieve gender equality embodied in the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa(Maputo Protocol) and the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa, aimed at achieving gender equality across the continent. [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 9:34 am by The Editors
  Many Canadians are here watching, advocating, and reporting. [read post]