Senate Committee Holds Hearing on #Campus Safety
On July 13th, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing on campus safety. The[…]
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Targeted Interventions Found to Increase Healthy Habits of Lesbian and Bisexual Women
Post submitted by Ashley Jeffrey, HRC Foundation Coordinator A groundbreaking study found that programs designed specifically for lesbian and bisexual women helped[…]
Read moreThe Real Cost of North Carolina’s Discriminatory Anti-LGBTQ Law
Post submitted by Allison Turner, HRC Communications Assistant North Carolina’s HB2 is a disaster for LGBTQ North Carolinians, the state’s[…]
Read moreFindings Show No New Transmissions Between #HIV-Negative Partners & People with HIV on Treatment
HRC Foundation hailed the groundbreaking results of the recently-released PARTNER study finding no linked cases of HIV transmission between[…]
Read moreOzoria Acosta Replaces #Anti-LGBT Cardinal in the Dominican Republic
By Courtney Thomas On July 4, 2016 Pope Francis appointed Monsignor Francisco Ozoria Acosta as Archbishop of Santo Domingo in[…]
Read moreU.K. Chilcot Report Points to Persistent Weakness in U.S. Foreign Policy
By Neil Hicks The Chilcot Report on the U.K’s involvement in the war in Iraq, released last week in London,[…]
Read moreAfter Orlando, HRC Co-Sponsors Event Tackling #Islamophobia and #Homophobia
This Thursday, HRC is co-sponsoring an event in Los Angeles focusing on the anti-Islam backlash following the Orlando tragedy,[…]
Read moreJVTA One Year After Enactment – #HumanTrafficking
By Rachel Buchan On June 28th the Senate judiciary committee convened a hearing to evaluate the Justice Department’s (DOJ) efficacy[…]
Read moreMeet the #Olympic Refugee Team: Part 3
By Elise Adams Ten athletes from South Sudan, Ethiopia, Syria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo will go to Rio[…]
Read moreFairphone Offers a Model of Ethical Transparency in Business – #Smartphones
By Lewis Golove How are our smartphones made? Underneath the sleek design are dozens of minerals processed in hundreds of[…]
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