CANBERRA, Australia - Australia must abolish policies that discriminate against Aborigines in its quest to lift its indigenous population out of Third World poverty, the head of an international human rights group said Wednesday.
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The group, called NO on 1/Protect Maine Equality, also reported that it has spent $2.2 million on its campaign to preserve the law. |
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon marked the 15th anniversary of a "watershed" U.N. conference that called for women's equality by urging all countries Monday to renew their commitment to educate girls, end sexual violence, and provide access to modern birth control.
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The building at 1640 Rhode Island Avenue, also known as Equality Center, was tagged with “Quit Leaving Queers Out” in pink paint, according to blogger Leslie Ewing.
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Demonstrators from across the United States crowded the Mall, the green space near the US Capitol and White House, many waving rainbow flags and signs calling for equality under the law and the right to marry. |
The deal signed as world leaders gathered here for this week's UN General Assembly session, aims to accelerate action on HIV/AIDS and "correct the glaring inequality" faced by children in the face of the scourge, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe told a press conference. |
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest gay rights advocate, released its 2010 survey on GLBT discrimination in corporate America. The report, known as the Corporate Equality Index, is a scorecard of sorts which rates companies on several gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender workplace policies and assigns each a rating from 0- to 100- percent. This year, corporations achieving a perfect score grew to a new record.
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That didn't surprise labor activists who say women are the most vulnerable workers in recessions, especially in low wage industries in developing countries where gender equality lags. |
It took less than a day for the arrest of Henry Louis Gates to become racial lore. When one of America's most prominent black intellectuals winds up in handcuffs, it's not just another episode of profiling — it's a signpost on the nation's bumpy road to equality.
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Baseball's annual Civil Rights Game started by paying tribute Saturday to those who have worked for equality, including former home run king Hank Aaron. The White Sox took it from there, with Alexei Ramirez hitting the last of four Chicago homers for a 10-8 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. |
CAIRO - President Barack Obama says women should have the right to choose whether they want to be equal with men. He discussed women's rights in a speech about America's relationship with the Muslim world.
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BRSunday Cynthia Nixon announced her engagement to longtime partner Christine Mariononi during an Action=Marriage Equality rally in midtown New York to fight for same-sex marriages.
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SINGAPORE - The gay community in tightly controlled Singapore held its first-ever rally Saturday, taking advantage of looser laws on public gatherings to call for equality.
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Yesterday, when Gov. John Baldacci (D) signed a marriage equality law, Maine became the fifth state to allow legal same-sex marriage. On the Christian Broadcasting Network today, Pat Robertson responded by claiming that the "ultimate conclusion" of legalizing same-sex marriage would be the legalization of polygamy, bestiality, child molestation and pedophilia. "You mark my words, this is just the beginning in a long downward slide in relation to all the things that we consider to be abhorrent," said Robertson.
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Just when many people felt they had already seen enough of Miss California, Carrie Prejean, a topless photo of the beauty pageant contestant and National Organization for Marriage spokeswoman surfaced late on Monday night.
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President Barack Obama says Jack Kemp's work in politics shaped not just his Republican Party, but also the country.
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Emmanuel Saez, 36, a public economics expert teaching at the University of California at Berkeley, was awarded the 2009 John Bates Clark Medal last week. Nobody has done more to describe the broad changes in income distribution in the United States that have taken place during the last ninety years.
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Poland's equality minister, Elzbieta Radziszewska, wants to expand a Polish law prohibiting the production of fascist and totalitarian propaganda so that it includes clothing and anything else that could carry an image related to an authoritarian system.
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A decade-long battle for marriage equality in Connecticut ended late Wednesday when the General Assembly voted to update the state's marriage laws to conform with a landmark court ruling allowing gay and lesbian couples to tie the knot.
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A row has erupted over Attorney General Baroness Scotland's equality and diversity expectations for Treasury counsel, with members ;of ;the ;bar claiming it could lead to chambers being forced to quit the Government panel.
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Equality makes good business sense. At the most basic level, companies will see the good sense in publishing data about their workforce when the graduates they are trying to recruit start asking questions about why their rivals do more.
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At a European debate seeking equality and integration for minorities, hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee, participants said xenophobic reactions must be stamped out and replaced with an attitude of finding enrichment within different cultures.
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Never have women achieved equality by somebody coming in and giving it to them. We can't bomb our way into equality.
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Never have women achieved equality by somebody coming in and giving it to them. We can't bomb our way into equality.
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A Sudanese court on Wednesday condemned 10 rebels from the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to death for an unprecedented attack on Khartoum in 2008 which killed over 220 people.
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