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March is Women’s History Month, which means I’m often asked to name the most pressing issue facing women in America. Answers spring to mind, sometimes faster than I can form the words. The fall of Roe ...

Since the founding of the Blue Diamond Society in 2001 and a groundbreaking victory for fundamental rights at the Supreme Court in 2007, Nepal has been recognized globally for advances for lesbian, ...

In its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court made clear that its new majority rejects the interpretation of the right to privacy in the U.S. Constitution that ...

A type of law first created after the end of slavery to prohibit Black men from voting prevented more than 4.6 million Americans from participating in the 2022 midterm elections. Forty-eight states ...

Honestly, it’s all ancestral land. We thought like Natives do. We thought the settlers would never disturb their own graves, and so you think that [ours] would never be disturbed. As Natives, we think ...

There’s a traditional narrative about the history of Black people and the law. It describes how slaves were entirely shut out of the legal system, disenfranchised and bereft of even a modicum of legal ...

In the second installment of the ACLU’s election 2024 memo series, our experts detail the threats a potential second Trump administration poses to the LGBTQ community, particularly transgender people.

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Advocating for the rights of people forced to flee and those denied a nationality. Citizens normally look to their own governments to guarantee their human rights and physical security. When people ...