Civil Rights

For #MeToo attorneys representing survivors, pandemic year is the biggest they have had

When the Harvey Weinstein revelations erupted in October 2017, launching the reckoning that became known as the #MeToo movement, it caused a "sea change", Debra Katz says.

Harvard to repatriate civil rights leader Standing Bear’s tomahawk to Nebraska tribe

Larry Wright, Jr, chairman of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, said Tuesday the return of the historic weapon is a powerful symbol of homecoming for the tribe.

As a generation of thinkers grapples with notions of consent, an observation of the word's travels, its odd, nagging magnetism

Recent novels, philosophical inquiries, young adult and romance fiction, films and television shows join a robust literature from the fields of feminist and disability studies to ask who and what the term “consent” excludes today.

US Census head says Donald Trump memo doesn't change bureau's policy to 'count everyone'

“We will continue full steam ahead with our mission of counting every person," US Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham said in prepared remarks for a congressional hearing Wednesday

UN human rights chief says US sanctions have worsened Venezuela crisis, criticises Maduro for violating civil and political rights

Sanctions have "exacerbated" the crisis in Venezuela, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said after the United States warned it may expand the measures it has imposed targeting President Nicolas Maduro's government.

USCIS ramps up scrutiny of foreign workers in America; H4 EAD on its way out - it's official

The Trump government on Friday confirmed that it is intensifying efforts to crack down on "fraud, abuse and discrimination by employers bringing foreign visa workers to the United States." In a separate development, the Trump government has published in its Spring agenda that employment authorization for spouses of H1B workers is on its way out.

African-American man shot dead in New York after police mistake pipe for gun on 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's assassination

New York Police shot dead an African-American man in Brooklyn on Wednesday after mistaking a piece of pipe he was holding for a gun

Supreme Court's SC/ST Act judgment: Legislative history of India's attempts (and failures) to protect the downtrodden

Repeated legislation has been unable to solve the problems faced by the SC/ST community. As such, the dilution of the protections afforded to them is problematic.

Australia signs same-sex marriage bill into law, weddings to be legal from Saturday

Australia's prime minister rushed gay marriage into law by gaining a final signature on a bill hours after it was overwhelming endorsed by Parliament

Centre's transgender protection bill is problematic and woefully inadequate, will harm community

So as it stands, the Transgender Persons [Protection of Rights] Bill 2016 is clearly woefully inadequate to meet the needs of the Indian trans community. If passed, it would not only cement problematic definitions of gender into law, but also institute provisions that actively harm the community and potentially lead to more interference and discrimination than they already face.