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The Treaty Principles Bill’s promise of ‘equal rights’ ignores the blind spots of our democracy
He asks, “are we a modern democracy where all citizens have equal rights?”. But democracy takes various forms, and has done for millennia. Derived from the Ancient Greek “demos” (people ...
Civil Rights Attorney Lisa Holder Says Reparations Are More Than Money
Holder, the president of the Equal Justice Society, has spent more than two decades working to dismantle systems of racial ...
Modesto Bee11d
How California’s Central Valley can uphold the principles of the Equal Rights Amendment | Opinion
About 7000 Equal Rights Amendment demonstrators in protest ... This achievement marks a moment of collective progress for all Americans, affirming our shared values of justice and opportunity.
RealClearPolitics8d
Wendy Murphy: By Arguing That Gender Is Mutable, the Biden DOJ Killed the Equal Rights Amendment Forever
Andrew Walworth interviews columnist and New England Law Boston professor Wendy Murphy about how President Biden's lame-duck declaration of support for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) conflicts ...
Opinion
It’s not up to the U.S. president to decide when Equal Rights Amendment is law: Mark R. Brown
Statutory deadlines and presidential proclamations aside, like outgoing President Joe Biden's recent declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was now law, all that matters ...
Indiatimes7d
Uttarakhand implements Uniform Civil Code: What it means for married people and live-in couples
The UCC aims to provide equal rights for all citizens, standardizing laws for marriage, divorce, inheritance, and adoption while excluding Scheduled Tribes to protect their rights. Creating ...
Business Insider12d
What Trump revoking the Equal Employment Opportunity executive order means for businesses and workers
President Trump this week revoked a civil rights-era Equal Employment ... Independence and our civil rights laws—that all people are 'created equal.'" Some companies had already begun pulling ...
Voice of America19d
Biden says Equal Rights Amendment should be considered ratified
guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex.” It’s unlikely that Biden’s support will have any impact. On Friday, the National Archives ...
Equal Rights Amendment: Could Joe Biden's Ratification Shift Women's Rights?
President Joe Biden said Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed in 1923, should be considered ratified and part of the U.S. Constitution.
Euronews13d
In pictures: LGBTQ+ couples in Thailand register their marriages as law gives them equal status
It's a big and joyous day for LGBTQ+ couples in Thailand! On Thursday they gained the legal right to register their marriages, making it the first country in Southeast Asia and the third place in ...
CNN19d
Biden says Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, kicking off expected legal battle as he pushes through final executive actions
guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex,” Biden said in a statement Friday. Biden, a senior Biden administration official said, is not ...