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Richmond, VA. —The Virginia State Conference of the NAACP filed a brief on Monday, June 27, 2016 in the Virginia Supreme Court in support of Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s executive order restoring voting rights to more than 200,000 Virginians with previous …
Image via Central America hosts a thriving sex work industry that is a key source and transit region for sex trafficking and undocumented migrants engaged in sex work. Sex workers – particularly those who are migrant – are at high …
The title of this blog could easily be Hope Is Powerful Medicine, Part Two. The stories of the now “lost” men and women of Sudan retold at a policy breakfast forum hosted by social worker Congresswoman Karen Bass (CA-37), the …
In January, California State Senator Carol Liu (D-La Cañada Flintridge) introduced a bill that aims to protect the right of California’s homeless to “rest” in public spaces. Senate Bill 876 would de-criminalize homelessness by ultimately limiting local sanitation and law …
An In-depth Look at Social WorkJim RobertsVoice of our CEO Tirelessly endeavoring to enhance our collective quality of life, promoting social justice and improving the wellbeing of the community--this is Social Work. “SOCIAL” relates to the broader collective community; and …
A panel discussion held Thursday night focused on rejecting racist norms, especially within UNC’s community. The Campus Y and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. hosted 50 Years After the Dream, a panel on race and the justice system, to discuss …
STUDENT VOICES | CHYNN PRIZE FIRST-PLACE WINNER By: Tiffany Melillo Every day, regardless of what I do, I use forced labor. No, I am not a plantation owner in the South during the Civil War, nor am I a …
In recent news, Somalia became the 195th country to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) (http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=49845#.VMqDdLDwuM8). The CRC is the most widely ratified international human rights document in history and was officially adopted by …
You don’t have to work explicitly for a human rights organization to help advance human rights, whether your interests are global or local. Here are my tips for engaging in human rights work, despite your career or schooling background.
Image courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net STUDENT VOICES By Alyssa Dolan The dialogue on the imprisonment of those with intellectual development disorders (IDDs) has progressively grown silent. Crucial to this nonexistent discourse is the tendency of the justice system to criminalize the …
