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The petition outlines how LGBTQ+ rights have been affected in Texas since 2019, but specifically names seven bills the Legislature passed last year that the groups allege violate human rights ...
The U.S. Justice Department found on Thursday that Texas has routinely violated the civil rights of juveniles at five of its detention facilities by using excessive force, failing to protect them ...
The Education Department wants to negotiate with the Carroll school district in Southlake, Texas, over four students' civil rights complaints, lawyers say.
Additionally, at any given time, Texas contains around 25% of the trafficked persons in the United States, and almost a third of the calls to the National Human Trafficking Hotline are from Texas. [3] Texas is also a huge transit site for domestic trafficking, with around twenty percent of domestic trafficking victims traveling through Texas. [3]
Human rights groups, civil rights organizations, and social critics have criticized the United States for violating fundamental human rights through the use of disproportionately heavy penalties compared to many other countries, overly long prison sentences, over-reliance on police control, excessive control of individual behavior, and societal ...
The UNROW Human Rights Impact Litigation Clinic is a student litigation and advocacy project at American University's Washington College of Law.. UNROW's story began in 2000 when five Texas trial lawyers - Walter Umphrey, Harold Nix, Wayne Reaud, John O'Quinn, and John Eddie Williams (UNROW) - made gifts totaling $2 million to Washington College of Law.
The raids have triggered outrage and cries of voter suppression in Texas, a state with a long history of discrimination against citizens of Mexican descent. ... oldest Latino civil rights group ...
Ten civil rights groups are urging the Dept. of Justice to investigate Texas' "Operation Lone Star," a border enforcement operation by Gov. Greg Abbott.