by Beth Holmes | Dec 19, 2022 | Civil Rights, News, Politics, Racism
Puerto Rico may now hold their first binding referendum on independence, after a bill passed in the U.S. House on Thursday. The bill which passed offers Puerto Rican voters three choices to vote for – statehood, independence, or independence with free association. It...
by admin | Nov 22, 2021 | Civil Rights, Equality, Human Rights, LGBT community, Politics, Power LGBT
Ghana is not a new battlefield for the fight over LGBT rights, but new developments have brought it to the fore. On November 10, 2021, the country had its first public hearings on a piece of proposed legislation which will, if passed, make it a crime simply to be gay,...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 19, 2021 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Gender, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Transgender
Back in July 2020, voters in anti-LGBT Russia passed a measure to amend the country’s constitution to redefine marriage and parenthood as a union between a “biological” man and woman. The measure passed with nearly 80 percent of voters in support, after years of...
by admin | Apr 5, 2017 | Civil Rights, Featured, News
Kimberly Hively, a former teacher at Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana, will be one of those names mentioned in law books for future generations. Her case is an iconic stepping stone in the path to progress. She alleges that her former employer denied her a...
by admin | Mar 22, 2017 | Civil Rights, Featured
If you ask Joe Streetwise about discrimination laws in the United States, he’d probably assume that sexual orientation and gender identity are already protected classes. But in 62% percent of the country, he’d be wrong. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of...
