Equal Rights
Examine the ongoing fight for equal rights through a range of features on workplace discrimination, same-sex marriage, and more.
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How Women Business Leaders Deal with Gender Bias
Gender bias is still a problem in the workplace, despite decades of attention to the issue.
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Five Biggest Sexual Harassment Cases
Even though we're still wrestling with this issue, a look back at the history of sexual harassment shows how far we've come as a society.
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Who Is Hamdan? the Case of Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld
In November 2001, then-President George Bush, as part of his war on terror, issued an executive order which authorized the trial of those persons considered "enemy combatants" via military commission. Bypassing Congress, Bush's order was clear that these "foreign nationals" would have no ability to "invoke rights under any other body of law, U.S. or international" and that "justice was to be dispensed swiftly, close to where our forces may be fighting, without years of pretrial proceedings or post-trial appeals."
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