Human Rights

“…the US has really focused on pushing breastfeeding as a goal, but we have done that without thinking through all of the relative costs…”…

A scholar works to document local dialect of the Ojibwe language that was spoken by his grandmother.

More than one billion people, or 15 percent of the global population, live with a disability, according to the World Health Organization. People with disabilities face significantly higher risks associated with…

From institutionalized discrimination to pandemic lay-offs, people with disabilities have struggled to retain stable employment. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the employment rate of Americans with disabilities was 17.9 percent by the…

In recent years, women in the geosciences have developed new trainings, like the FieldSafe program, to make the work more inclusive and equip researchers with strategies to intervene.

A scholar works to document local dialect of the Ojibwe language that was spoken by his grandmother.

As teacher shortages persist, Chicago, Lincoln and Tulsa are filling in the gaps with more than 150 internationally trained immigrants and refugees.

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In March, on International Women’s Day, President Biden issued an executive order to establish the Gender Policy Council and create our country’s first-ever national gender strategy “as a matter of human rights, justice,…

White public schools have always gotten more money than Black public schools. These funding disparities go back to the so-called “separate but equal” era—which was enshrined into the nation’s laws by the…

When schools have more students of color, they’re more likely to close — and some shutter even when they’re high performing. In Louisiana’s largest school district, Jefferson Parish, advocates say the move exacerbates a racist history, too.

The court will examine whether a disabled advocate can sue hotels without being a guest. Advocates say independent civil rights testers are vital to ADA enforcement.