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...policy change is currently under review at the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) that would prohibit all first-year and some second-year students in Harvard’s Prison Legal Assistance Program from representing prisoners in court...
...violence in the first place? Though gay and lesbian activists have made significant social and legislative inroads in the last two decades, progress for gender-variant people has been glacial by comparison. Only four states—California, New Mexico, Minnesota, and Rhode Island—explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity...
Matthews challenged Gephardt on the latter issue, asking whether he would repeal Right to Work laws that prohibit unions from requiring membership for all of a company’s workers. After a heated exchange, Gephardt insisted that he was against the laws, and would pass legislation to repeal them if he could...
...hijab as a symbol of female subjugation - a view many Muslim women find patronizing. Says Iyman Alzayed, 45, a teacher in Hanover: "My head scarf is just something that hides my hair." Germany has been grappling with these issues for more than a decade. In 1995, its Constitutional Court prohibited overwhelmingly Catholic Bavaria from applying a state law requiring that crucifixes be hung in classrooms. (The verdict has since been skirted by a Bavarian regulation allowing crosses, unless parents object.) In 1998, a young Muslim teacher named Fereshta Ludin applied for a job in Plüderhausen in Baden...
...affaires at the Saudi embassy and a representative from the German Foreign Ministry. The Saudis opposed closing the school, which was proving legally difficult anyway, so the Foreign Ministry in Berlin suggested a deal that satisfied both sides: the academy would stay open, but the Saudis would prohibit attendance by Muslims who are German citizens, since the school was originally intended only for the children of diplomats; and the mosque, previously open to the public, would be restricted to those with a connection to the school...