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Monday, September 15, 2008
Grand Hyatt New York
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Election Protection to Provide Primary Election Day
Hotline to Assist Voters in North Carolina and Indiana
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Lawyers' Committee Client, Connecticut NAACP, Victorious
Connecticut Judge Dismissed the State's Lawsuit Challenging the No Child Left Behind Act
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Lawyers' Committee Disappointed with Supreme Court Decision to Uphold Indiana's Voter Identification Law, But Will Continue Fight to Protect All Voters
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The Lawyers' Committee Joins Other Leading National Advocacy Organizations in Filing a Lawsuit to Compel Missouri Public Assistance Agencies to Offer Voter Registration Services as Mandated by Federal Law
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Election Protection Coalition Fields Over 1,000 Calls Reporting Scattered Problems Throughout Pennsylvania
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Election Protection Gears Up to Provide Primary Election Day
Hotline to Assist Voters in Pennsylvania
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Read the Lawyers’ Committee’s new report, Election Protection 2008 Primary Report, Looking Ahead to November
Committee of Seventy and Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law Join Forces For The
April 22nd Pennsylvania Primary
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Lawyers' Committee Executive Director Barbara Arnwine joins the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and the Black Unity Family in remembering Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.'s legacy.
click here to read the open letter published in newspapers across the country which was supported by more than 100 national Black leaders expressing collective concerns and issues.
Lawyers' Committee Urges Improved HUD Leadership Following Housing Secretary Jackson's Resignation
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Election Protection Ready to Provide
Voter Assistance During Upcoming Presidential Primaries.
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Protecting Vulnerable Coastal Communities: Meaningful Political Action and Strategies for Environmental Justice After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita,
 The Environmental Justice Project has released the report of the National Commission on Environmental Justice on the Gulf Coast. The report, Protecting Vulnerable Coastal Communities: Meaningful Political Action and Strategies for Environmental Justice After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, highlights the work of community activists in the wake of the numerous failures to protect coastal communities from the environmental threats exacerbated by the two storms. The report will be discussed in a series of events over the next few months in D.C and on the Gulf Coast. The first will be on February 29, 2008 during the symposium "Katrina's Wake: Emergency Preparedness and Response from the Bayou to the Beltway" at the David A. Clarke Law School in Washington D.C.
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The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Releases Concluding Observations
(Geneva, Switzerland) - On March 7, 2008, the UN CERD Committee released its Concluding Observations following the periodic review of the US Government, February 21-22, 2008 in Geneva. These observations call for the US government to identify underlying factors of de facto racial discrimination in the United States and develop strategies to eradicate conditions leading to undeniable racial disparities in the areas such as housing, education, criminal justice, health care, and employment. The Lawyers' Committee issued a shadow report laying out racial disparities in these areas and urging the CERD Committee towards such a conclusion.
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For the LawyersÕ Committee Shadow Report, Click here
Lawyers' Committee Participates in United Nations Review of U.S. Government Compliance with Treaty Obligations
 Geneva, Switzerland Ð The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers' Committee) participated in the 72nd Session of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) as it reviewed the US governmentÕs periodic report to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, a binding
treaty obligation.
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Michael Foreman, Deputy Director of Legal Programs Testifies before
House Subcommittee on Education and Labor
February 12, 2008
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