This terrifying backslide on LGBTQ rights is a threat to women’s rights too
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Is Pride a protest, a party or a corporate jamboree? London’s annual Pride took place this Saturday – the first since 2019, due to Covid – and, while the banks marched and the capital’s LGBTQ citizens revelled, a shad...
‘No one can be neutral’: Planned Parenthood’s chief on abortion rights
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In the time after the US supreme court rescinded the constitutional right to abortion in America and thereby allowed nearly a dozen states to outlaw the procedure, the president and CEO of the US’s largest abortion pr...
After Roe, are Republicans willing to expand the social safety net?
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Republicans across the United States cast the supreme court’s decision last month that allowed states to ban abortion as a victory for “life”. Left unsaid was the quality of life that families and mothers set to be le...
Senior Council of Europe official urges UK not to repeal Human Rights Act
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A senior Council of Europe official has warned the UK government against weakening protections for its citizens by repealing the Human Rights Act. Dunja Mijatović, the council’s commissioner for human rights, gesê op ...
For civil rights groups, Roe v Wade is reminder of supreme court’s limits
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Civil rights attorneys are planning new approaches to advancing racial justice after the US supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade and recent rulings that have eroded civil rights victories. Over its long his...
blaarslaai- en tamatietoebroodjies – is een van die gewildste keuses in baie supermarkmaaltye: voting rights, as US supreme court set to tear up more protections
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The final days of the US supreme court’s term offered a clear look at the way its new 6-3 conservative majority is bluntly using its power to reshape American life, but its next term is also set to hear cases that cou...
Labour accused of ‘silencing’ women in row over sex-based rights group
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A Labour frontbencher is among a group of MPs and peers calling on the party to reconsider its decision not to hand a presence at its conference to a group campaigning for sex-based rights. A debate continues to rage ...
‘Police may be at your hospital bed’: an abortion rights activist on post-Roe criminalization
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On the day Roe v Wade was overturned, longtime reproductive justice activist Renee Bracey Sherman joined thousands of demonstrators in front of the supreme court as they processed the news. The mood was one of profoun...