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Largest U.S. women’s group makes early Biden endorsement, citing abortion rights threats
On August 25, 2023 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The largest U.S. women’s group on Friday endorsed President Joe Biden’s re-election bid, pledging to use its resources to mobilize voters and drive turnout in 2024. The political action committee for the National Organization for Women (NOW) offered its earliest-ever endorsement for a presidential re-election campaign, saying women’s…
Ohio abortion rights advocates sue over ballot language
By Jessie Balmert On August 29, 2023 The group pushing to enshrine abortion access in the Ohio Constitution filed a lawsuit Monday, challenging ballot language written by Republicans that reproductive rights advocates say is inaccurate and will confuse voters this fall. Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights asked the Ohio Supreme Court to use the same ballot language that…
Court Finds that Texas Law Requiring the Rejection of Mail Ballots and Applications Violates the Civil Rights Act
On August 18, 2023 The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled yesterday that portions of Texas Senate Bill 1, adopted in September 2021, violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The court found that parts of S.B. 1 require officials to reject mail-in ballot applications and mail-in ballots based on errors…
These deadly racist attacks should be impossible, but they’re becoming more common
By Jaweed Kaleem On August 30, 2023 A young white man wielding a weapon marked with a swastika. A trail of manifestos espousing far-right ideologies. Victims killed because of their race. It’s a situation that should be impossible, or at least uncommon. “We have three people who are dead because they are Black,” Democratic Florida state Sen.…
Civil Rights Organizations Send Letter to Texas Superintendents Calling for Accordance with Crown Act
By Kristi Gross On August 11, 2023 HOUSTON — Civil rights organizations sent a letter to every K-12 superintendent in Texas today urging them to update their policies to be compliant with the Texas Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act (“Texas CROWN Act”). The Texas CROWN Act amends the Texas Education Code to prohibit racial…
Saudi Arabia: Mass Killings of Migrants at Yemen Border
On August 21, 2023 Systematic Abuses of Ethiopians May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity (London) – Saudi border guards have killed at least hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers who tried to cross the Yemen-Saudi border between March 2022 and June 2023, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. If committed as part of a…
WFP Geneva Palais Briefing Note: Millions in the DRC risk going hungry as funding dries up
By Peter Musoko On August 22, 2023 This is a summary of what was said by Peter Musoko, Country Director for WFP in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Geneva – The ongoing…
Egypt’s President el-Sisi pardons prominent activist Douma, other prisoners
On August 19, 2023 Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has pardoned a number of prisoners, including prominent Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma, state TV and lawyers have said. Douma, 37, a leading figure in the pro-democracy revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011, was sentenced in 2019 to 15 years in prison for rioting and attacking security…
Haiti’s crisis deepens as thousands displaced by violence
On August 16, 2023 A surge in violence in parts of Haiti’s capital over the past week has pushed more than 3,000 people to flee their homes, including many who have been forced to seek shelter in improvised sites that leave them vulnerable to attacks. More than half of the internally displaced people in Port-au-Prince “have had…