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Equality & Human Rights
Do you believe that all persons - no matter race, creed, ethnicity, sexuality or gender identity - should enjoy fundamental freedoms and protection of their human rights? Are you concerned with identity-based persecution and want to support social change in this area? Join this group.
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This is horrifying: "Under Maplewood’s law, residents can be penalized for calling the police more than two times from the same address within an 180-day period, punished with eviction from their homes or even banishment from the city for up to six months; the law doesn’t differentiate between the sources and victims of the “nuisance activity.”
http://read.bi/2oE1fbN
This is horrifying: "Under Maplewood’s law, residents can be penalized for calling the police more than two times from the same address within an 180-day period, punished with eviction from their homes or even banishment from the city for up to six months; the law doesn’t differentiate between the sources and victims of the “nuisance activity.”
http://read.bi/2oE1fbN
"What ultimately binds these definitions together is an awareness that the less “black” a person looks, the better — better for securing jobs, better for social mobility. The widespread acceptance of multiracial identities in Brazil coexists with steep racial inequality — a contradiction that the sociologist Edward E. Telles has called “the enigma of Brazilian race relations.”
http://atfp.co/2oKIjsm
Want to share your thoughts and experiences? Join the conversation in our equality & human rights group: http://bit.ly/2pmrGkF
Believed to be the first case brought under a federal law in the US for Female Genital Mutilation:
"Female genital mutilation constitutes a particularly brutal form of violence against women and girls. It is also a serious federal felony in the United States," Daniel Lemisch, acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, said in a statement. "The practice has no place in modern society and those who perform FGM on minors will be held accountable under federal law."
http://n.pr/2pBy1rF
Another example of violence at the hands of police in the US: "In less than a minute, a police stop over claims of jaywalking devolved into what many are calling a troubling example of excessive force: a white officer walloping a black man with more than a dozen punches on a Sacramento street."
http://wapo.st/2p88Iko
