by Dianne Post | Feb 12, 2018 | 14th Amendment, Equality for Women, Human Rights, Justice and Democracy, Sexism
Justice Scalia said in 2010 that the equal protection provisions of the Constitution do not protect women. Until 1971, courts ruled that in fact the Fourteenth Amendment did not give women any protection. Reed v. Reed, the first successful case, started a change. By...
by Dianne Post | Jan 19, 2018 | Human Rights, Justice and Democracy
At a meeting in early December 2017, the director of the Department of Corrections said that Hickman’s Family Farms, an egg production business in Buckeye, AZ, was having a hard time keeping workers because transportation to the rural location was difficult. Their...
by Dianne Post | Dec 12, 2017 | Equality for Women, Human Rights, Justice and Democracy, Sexism
As allegations of sexual harassment continue to flood into society, let’s be clear that sexual harassment is not the problem but the symptom. The problem is patriarchy in which women are defined as less than men; in which the disease – power imbalance – is what causes...
by Dianne Post | Sep 11, 2017 | Equality for Women, Human Rights, Justice and Democracy, Sexism
The Arizona Capitol Times, June 15, 2017, Opinion: GOP and the ERA Excerpt: Equal Rights Amendment seems to be very frightening to the Arizona Republican Party. On April 27, the sponsor of the Arizona ERA (HCR2012), Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley, D-Tucson, moved for it...
by Dianne Post | May 26, 2017 | Justice and Democracy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (New York and Boston) [email protected] TEL: 617-652-0876 Cholera Victims’ Advocates Denounce UN’s Evasion of Responsibility in Kosovo BOSTON, May 26, 2017 — Advocates for cholera...
