A Russian court has effectively shut down the country’s largest LGBTQ rights organization after a failed attempt by the government to liquidate the Russian LGBT Network and its parent organization, the Charitable Sphere Foundation, in February. A court in St. Petersburg issued the decision Thursday in support of Russia’s Justice […]
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The first was to go back to school. She’s almost done with a nursing degree from Arapahoe Community College. She’s worked throughout the program but has had to pawn possessions and visit the school’s food bank to make ends meet. “Anything that I can put in my pantry to have […]
Austin, Texas – Today, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Campaign Legal Center (CLC), the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas (ACLU Texas), the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), and DĒMOS filed a lawsuit asking the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kiren Marshall, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, [email protected]Angelo Greco, The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation/Black Women’s Roundtable, 917-499-2688, [email protected]Lacy Crawford, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 202-558-7900, [email protected]Juan Martinez, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), 212-965-2200, [email protected]Marc Banks, NAACP, 443-608-4073, […]