Tag: rights
For Trump, Civil Rights Protections Should Help White Men
Administration officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom.
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Durov blocked from attending Oslo Freedom Forum — Human Rights Foundation
Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov will not be physically attending the Oslo Freedom Forum in Oslo, Norway, after French courts denied his request to tra [...]
Columbia Violated Jewish Students’ Civil Rights, Trump Administration Finds
The university has previously been the target of more $400 million in federal funding cuts.
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Suspect in Shooting of Israeli Embassy Staff in Washington, D.C., Had Protested for Palestinian Rights
The man detained after the shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington is from Chicago, where he had marched in pro-Palestinian demonstrations [...]
Family criticises law change on paedophiles’ parental rights
A family who went to court to protect a young girl from her paedophile father have criticised government legislation intended to help others in a simi [...]
Federal Courts Buck Trump Deportation Schemes, Focusing on Due Process Rights
The Trump administration’s aggressive push to deport migrants has run up against resistance from the judiciary.
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Senate Rejects Democrats’ Bid to Force State Dept. to Report on Rights in El Salvador
The measure would have compelled the administration to inform Congress about how it is complying with court orders involving deportees to El Salvador [...]
Senate Rejects Democrats’ Bid to Force State Dept. to Report on Rights in El Salvador
The measure would have compelled the administration to inform Congress about how it is complying with court orders involving deportees to El Salvador [...]
Trump Seeks to Strip Away Legal Tool Key to Civil Rights Enforcement
President Trump has ordered federal agencies to halt their use of “disparate-impact liability,” which has been used to assess whether policies discrim [...]
Comcast’s Xfinity Mobile gets Philadelphia arena naming rights
Igor Golovniov | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesThe Philadelphia home of the NBA's 76ers and NHL's Flyers is getting a new name.Beginning in September the [...]
Trump Wavers When Asked About Due Process Rights and His Constitutional Duties
President Trump repeatedly answered “I don’t know” when asked in a TV interview whether every person on American soil was entitled to due process, as [...]
Sex offenders to be denied asylum rights in new law
Asylum seekers will be denied the right to stay in the UK if they have been convicted of sexual offences, the government has announced.Terrorists, war [...]
Justices Appear Skeptical of School District in Student Disability Rights Case
The case is being watched closely by disability rights groups, which warned that arguments by a school district could threaten broader protections for [...]
Alarm at Changes to Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Office Prompts ‘Exodus’
Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are fleeing the arm of the agency that defends constitutional rights, which appointees intend to reshape t [...]
Trump Administration Opens Civil Rights Inquiry Into a Long Island Mascot Fight
President Donald Trump is weighing in on a school mascot dispute at Massapequa High School, where some parents are upset that a Chiefs mascot and logo [...]