Monthly Archive: March 2017
Georgia has become the latest state to take up legislation seemingly designed to have a chilling effect on First Amendment rights. Georgia’s State Senate passed SB1 earlier this month and the bill is now...
Salvadorans deported by the U.S. government warn of a looming humanitarian crisis in Central American countries as the Trump administration plows ahead with hardline policies towards immigrants. The Salvadoran Congress has approved a special...
South Dakota has become the first state this year to enact a measure that would allow religious adoption and family placement agencies receiving public funds to discriminate against prospective foster or adoptive parents based...
Trump’s executive orders on immigration have forced many families with foreign-born members to make emergency contingency plans. U.S. citizen children of undocumented parents fear a routine traffic stop can result in the separation of...
Download MP3 UK Arrests for UN Spying Judges to the International Criminal Court were sworn in today in the Hague with the notable absence being the United States. The court has jurisdiction in the...
Trump signs revised executive order banning immigration from Muslim majority countries Russia probe is elephant in the room at confirmation hearings for Deputy and Associate Attorneys General ACA repeal advances through two committees; next...
Representatives of Native American nations and tribes are in Washington D.C. today as part of a series of actions to put indigenous issues on the national political agenda. Standing Rock Sioux leaders led a...
A bill before the Arkansas legislature seeks to ban any material by or about historian Howard Zinn from public or state-supported school coursework. Zinn is best known for “A People’s History of the United...
After months of waiting for concrete proposals for a repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the GOP unveiled their plan — and began voting on the measure — this week. Two influential House...
In India, more than 200 women a year suffer disfiguring acid attacks. Acid is most commonly used as a weapon in gender-based attacks stemming from rejection of sexual advances or proposals of marriage and...