... political integration of the indigenous population in Guatemalan society, based on Mayan identity. It focuses on active political participation being part of their universal and ethnic civil rights.
U.S. President George W. Bush has signed into law the first civil rights legislation of the new millennium, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). GINA is the first and only federal ...
... be changing worldwide in light of several key factors, including Internet dating and achievement of civil rights, according to new University of Minnesota research. In 2007, about 30 HIV prevention ...
... Kennedy, who called GINA "the first major new civil rights bill of the new century." Kennedy was one of the bill's lead sponsors. "Discrimination in health insurance and the fear of ...
The Civil Rights Movement made monumental strides towards increasing the rights of black Americans. Ironically, the aftermath of this struggle brought harsh and sweeping changes to crime policy that ...
... particularly sensitive to gender bias, he says, operating under laws that have banned sex-based discrimination since the Civil Rights Act was passed nearly 50 years ago. Laws in ...
A postcard from Martin Luther King, Jr., and a congressional Medal of Honor are among hundreds of the late U.S. civil rights pioneer's possessions to be auctioned off.
For years, they were the picture of solidarity: the four children of Martin Luther King Jr. carrying on the legacy of the civil rights icon.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain is pledging support for a proposal to expand protections for disabled people under an 18-year-old landmark civil rights law.
... "Given the debates in many religious denominations about homosexuality, and in society about homosexuals and civil rights, it's also timely," Rosser said. "In particular, the old advice to gay men to ...
... boy — full of love and hope despite living through the civil rights struggle — with his place in midlife as an artist who admits he is filled with doubt every other day, has ...
... , to ensure that students received fair and impartial treatment. "We know a lot of the big stories of the civil rights era, but this is a smaller, virtually unknown one," said study author Jan Bates ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama is appealing to the nation that he will soon lead to honor slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King by making a commitment to serve others....
... The report recommends a multifaceted approach:
Aggressive enforcement of existing local and national civil rights law.s Expansion and rigorous enforcement of the Community Reinvestment Act to ...
... treatises have been written on the role of barbershops in African American life. In the pre-Civil Rights era, they were one of the first businesses that black men, especially in the South, could own, ...
