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Where Civic Hope and Political Reality Meet: Constitutions
Constitutions everywhere represent the nexus of civic hope and political reality. Nearly 300 professors, lawyers, and judges ...
Conservative activist, election skeptic is now chief US civil rights enforcer
Harmeet Dhillon, the San Francisco lawyer and conservative activist who is now the nation’s chief civil rights enforcer, is a ...
US Senate confirms Trump loyalist to lead Justice Department civil rights unit
The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed conservative lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, President Donald Trump's ...
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Instability in South Sudan
Weak governance and pre-existing ethnic tensions plunged the newly independent state into political turmoil. Tensions erupted into civil war in December 2013 following a political struggle between ...
The ADL says Wikipedia contains antisemitic bias, amid dispute over how the Israel-Hamas conflict is represented on the site
The Anti-Defamation League has found evidence of antisemitic and anti-Israel bias on Wikipedia, it said in a Tuesday report, ...
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Civil Society Groups Denounce 'Problematic and Rushed' TNI Law Revision
something the group said goes against several international human rights instruments, including Article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Indonesia is party to ...
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Civil rights enforcement agency opens probe into Columbia University over janitors trapped and attacked by anti-Israel mob
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a federal agency tasked with enforcing civil rights laws in the workplace, has opened a probe into complaints from Lester Wilson and Mario ...
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New lawsuit alleges Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights cannot fulfill responsibilities after cuts
A lawsuit filed Friday alleges the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is unable to fulfill its mandated obligations due to the Trump administration’s changes as it seeks ...
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Democracy and political participation
Research examines different models of governance and political traditions across the world, as well as how opinions and decision structures affect society. There are many different levels of social ...
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‘Students will suffer harm’: Education Department’s civil rights office gutted by layoffs, closures
The Education Department’s civil rights office has been among the hardest ... take adequate steps to protect Jewish students. “The political appointees at OCR seem more concerned with ...
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Facts and figures: Women’s leadership and political participation
Photo: UN Women/Ashutosh Negi Women’s equal participation and leadership in political and public life are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. However, data show that ...
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Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the political fallout of recession concerns
Correction: A graphic at the end of this piece should have stated that it cost $392 billion to maintain the federal debt so far in fiscal year 2025, not for the ...