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Many have fought to advance the equal rights of women but none more than Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her efforts began long before her appointment to the federal bench.

We're celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth by featuring a fantastic female leader each week.

Orders the termination of prior Syria-related sanctions effective July 1, 2025, while directing the Secretaries of State, Treasury, and Commerce to implement new authorities that both provide targeted sanctions relief and ...

In an updated advisory, the Departments urged potentially exposed businesses to mitigate their risk by implementing heightened human rights due diligence policies.

As technology has progressed, we have also seen emerging concerns for freedom of speech and privacy.

Two factors weighed heavily on my early career plan, one familial, the other aspirational.

Gregory B. Williams was featured in the Delaware Online article "Committee targeting Racial Disparities to Hold Hearings."

The Seventh Circuit recently reviewed a district court's dismissal of an FCA claim against the City of Chicago, in which the relator alleged that the City's certifications of compliance with civil rights laws were false...

Not long ago, I posted that the U.S. Supreme Court was going to consider tomorrow whether to review three court of appeals decisions addressing whether Title VII's ban on "sex" discrimination applies to discrimination...

Continuing its efforts to enforce the Fair Housing Act (FHA), last week the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it had settled a disability case for $160,000 that it filed in Ohio.

Late last month, the US DOJ announced that the owner/operator of a mobile home park in Fort Myers, Florida had resolved a case alleging that the defendant had discriminated against African Americans in violation of the FHA.

The European Court of Human Rights recently ruled in Bărbulescu v. Romania (Application no. 61496/08) that a Romanian employer did not violate its employee's fundamental right of privacy when the employer accessed personal messages in the employee's Yahoo! Messenger account.

On December 10, 2021, the United States joined Australia, Denmark and Norway in announcing the Export Controls and Human Rights Initiative in recognition that "advanced technologies are a vital part of ...

Passed by a vote of 47-3, the Stop Credit Discrimination in Employment Act bans employers in New York City from using potential employees’ credit histories in making employment decisions.

It's Friday and time for another overview of developments in the field of business and human rights that we've been monitoring.

Temporary Protected Status is available for individuals from foreign states where the AG has determined that conditions in that country would result in a threat to personal safety.

On Friday, Governor Charlie Baker signed the Transgender Public Accommodations Bill into law. Massachusetts now protects transgender persons from discrimination in places of public accommodation.

In January 2022, New York City enacted an amendment to the New York City Human Rights Law requiring employers to state the minimum and maximum salary...