Tag: human rights

Pan-African Parliament (PAP) representatives and the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) put forth a movement to end female genital mutilation (FGM).

Prosecutors in Baltimore just dropped all remaining charges against the last three city police officers awaiting trial in the death of Freddie Gray.

The Obama administration is still holding their ground on the decision saying that transgender kids are already a vulnerable minority.

“New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office and the NYPD both recently announced they have launched separate investigations into the off-duty police shooting after reviewing the footage of the incident.”

True patriots seek to confirm and strengthen and celebrate the “we” in “we the people of the United States.”

SCOTUS rules 5-3 that Texas’s abortion law is unconstitutional.

This town’s residents just showed Nestle they’re not backing down against corporate greed.

“Somewhere in time, a semantic shift occurred in the minds of enough people that it has now reached the level of law where we see a classic battle between a reform-minded, liberal federal government and that old standby of conservatives and bigots, states’ rights.”

A new first-in-the-nation law will shield residents from arrest as they use direct action to stop fracking-wastewater injection wells.

The Labour Party’s Sadiq Khan has just become London’s first Muslim mayor.