Reprinted with permission from the Human Rights at Home Blog. For two weeks at the end of last year, Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty crisscrossed the United States, speaking to communities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Lowndes…
On May 7, 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new iteration of the Trump administration’s draconian stance on immigration: the “zero tolerance” policy. In short, the “zero tolerance” policy directs prosecutors to charge as many people crossing the border…
Yesterday Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, announced her decision to scale down or remove Title IX protections on college campuses. Title IX holds universities across the country accountable for supporting survivors of sexual assault. Hiding behind a false assertion that…
Guest Post by Sandra from The Right Side of Truth The internet has opened the door to nearly unlimited opportunities to share information and knowledge around the world. Unfortunately, it has also created an entirely new arena for abuse and…
One plus one plus one is three. We can all agree on the math, but when it comes to parents, the law usually stops counting at two. But a New York court recently decided, in Dawn M v. Michael M.,…
Imagine denying children a home, a family, for no reason other than who the potential parent chooses to love and with whom they choose to form a family. Well, it’s happening! Georgia has become one of the most recent states to…
Students in the sonography program at Valencia College were asked to volunteer to undergo transvaginal ultrasound examinations by other students in the program. It quickly became clear that this request was a demand when instructors, including the program manager, retaliated…
Woodhull Freedom Foundation joined a coalition of national free-speech organizations led by the Foundation for Individual Rights, calling for the federal appeals court to reverse a ruling on a case involving three Valencia College students punished for objecting to a college…
When we talk about sex education reform, the discussion is often a two-sided debate between teaching adolescents about sex or teaching them to wait until marriage. As of January 2015, only 19 states have a policy that requires their sex…
Looking for a court challenge to obscenity laws? Try Oregon, where the laws regarding exposing minors to obscenity are already so broad as to be hard to fit within the bounds of the constitution. How bad are the current laws?…