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he Erie County Legislature's Minority Caucus held a press conference Tuesday, calling for a legislative hearing to fully examine how sensitive department of social service documents were disposed of improperly. The Minority Caucus, including Legislators ...
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13 hours ago
The Erie County Legislature's Minority Caucus held a press conference Tuesday, calling for a legislative hearing to fully examine how sensitive department of social service documents were disposed of improperly. The Minority Caucus, including Legislators ...
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Once again political leaders of both parties sell out the gay community. It's not right. Shame on Democrats for concedingIt is outrageous. Once again the gay community is reminded of where it stands with the political leadership, both Democrats and Republican. Their rights have been traded away for [...]
1 day ago
Rob Flello came, he spoke, but he couldn't say everything• With Labour's help, PM Dave jumped a significant hurdle en route to legislation enshrining gay marriage. Good for him, but a worry for Lord Tebbit. We might see a "lesbian queen giving birth to a future monarch by artificial insemination",[...]
1 day ago
Far-right essayist Dominique Venner, 78, shoots himself at altar after writing blogpost condemning same-sex marriage law A far-right French historian has killed himself at the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after declaring that more radical action was needed in opposition to same-sex marriag[...]
2 days ago
The government has opened up the civil service to the wider community but has failed to put in place tighter codes of conduct, says Jon TrickettThe British civil service is often celebrated for its professionalism, independence and expertise, but our system of governance is being challenged as never[...]
2 days ago
Leading Tory MPs is far harder than herding a sackful of kittensNo sign of David Cameron in the Commons chamber. Perhaps he was lying in a darkened room, or consulting a hermit on top of a Himalayan mountain. His party appears to be disintegrating into endless factions beneath him. Loonies versus so[...]
2 days ago
General assembly votes to allow congregations to admit gay ministers but only if they specifically elect to do soThe Church of Scotland, the country's largest Protestant church, has narrowly voted to admit gay and lesbian ministers after traditionalists agreed to compromise after four years of divis[...]
2 days ago
Review concludes that decision to remove eastern European children from couple was taken in children's best interestsA council that sparked outrage after taking three eastern European children away from their Ukip-supporting foster parents has apologised over its handling of the case after a review [...]
5 days ago
he had lived in Aurora and Chicago before moving to South Carolina in the late 1990s. Born Guadalupe Domingez in Kewanee, Ill., Sister Lupe was one of 13 children born to immigrants from Mexico. She grew up bilingual in a home without indoor ...
5 days ago
Social workers, tasked with protecting vulnerable children, should not be drawn into the culture of disbelief around asylumA report published today says that hundreds of vulnerable children have been put at risk because social workers and others have disbelieved them when they told the truth.In the [...]
5 days ago
In Poland and elsewhere, trans people have to ensure that the shift to liberal social polices includes the way they are treatedMy election to the Polish parliament in 2011 caused a huge stir. I was the first transgender MP in my country, and I am now the only one in the world. So I have a high profi[...]
6 days ago
More than 177,000 minors act look after relatives, with charities warning long hours affect schoolwork and childhoodNearly 10,000 children aged five to seven are acting as unpaid carers for family members or guardians, according to figures that have been published which were described by one childre[...]
6 days ago
At least 46% of foreign-born residents in England and Wales are British citizens, according to the latest set of 2011 Census data
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6 days ago
5.78 million people in Britain do it, but what is the impact of providing unpaid care? As part of its continuing work after the 2011 census, the Office for National Statistics has taken a look
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6 days ago
Muslims are the most ethnically diverse, Christians the oldest and Hindus are the most likely not to be born in the UK. Here is what the latest 2011 census data tells us
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• More data journalism and data visualisations from the GuardianChristianity has had a boost from peo[...]
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• More data journalism and data visualisations from the GuardianChristianity has had a boost from peo[...]
1 week ago
Austerity 'may deepen child poverty'Sign up to Society daily email briefingToday's top SocietyGuardian stories• Austerity policy may increase child poverty, doctors say
• 'Recessions can hurt, but austerity kills'
• Low income families forced to spend a third of net income on housing[...]
• 'Recessions can hurt, but austerity kills'
• Low income families forced to spend a third of net income on housing[...]
1 week ago
Randeep Ramesh (Society, 15 May) highlights the conflict for charities between campaigning against the outrageous injustice of the government's policy of imposing caps, cuts and council tax on poverty incomes and also being paid by the same government to deliver the policy. He describes the vulnerab[...]
1 week ago
City in Honduras has a murder rate of 173 per 100,000 residents, reportedly the highest in the world outside a war zoneNo matter the time of day or night, morticians stand guard by the gate of the city morgue, waiting for the next body to be released so they can offer their services to grieving fami[...]
1 week ago
Labour supporters have hardened their attitude towards social justice because Labour did. Miliband must reverse thisIt's Wednesday, so you know what that means: it's time for the Labour party to have its weekly identity crisis. This week's crisis is brought to you by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, [...]
1 week ago
Figures suggest Asian men are disproportionately involved, but law enforcers and those in child protection say it's not so simpleIt is the potentially explosive charge that may gain momentum after the conviction of the latest gang of men to be convicted of grooming underage girls. Is there something[...]
1 week ago
Labour voters turning against poorSign up to Society daily email briefingToday's top SocietyGuardian stories• Labour voters increasingly turning against the poor, study says
• Young people have 10% less chance of securing a job, TUC study finds
• Unpaid internships: moves to bolster [...]
• Young people have 10% less chance of securing a job, TUC study finds
• Unpaid internships: moves to bolster [...]
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My word, Roger Scruton is a romantic conservative (Comment, 11 May), what with his faith in marriage and family and his proclamation that "For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our family home."Well yes, and no.For most working coun[...]
1 week ago
Equality Commission report reveals that nearly half of province's gay community are unaware the law can protect themAnti-gay violence in Northern Ireland is massively underplayed, with eight out of 10 attacks not reported to the police, according to research.As the lord mayor of Belfast prepared to [...]
1 week ago
As the country holds midterm elections, Ang Ladlad is hoping to be the world's first lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender party to win a seat in a national parliament"Hello Mister Fisherman!" bellows Alexis Cruz through a megaphone to fishmongers in the bustling central market of Baguio [...]
1 week ago
Times change and so do our favourite foods, but the late Labour MP's ideas on multiculturalism remain as correct now as they were thenTwelve years seems time enough for a spot of communal evaluation. Our yardstick? Not that scientific perhaps, but let's use an address by the late former foreign secr[...]
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12 weeks ago
On February 12, the U.S. Senate passed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) by a comfortable 78-22 margin. The bill included comprehensive protections for Native American women, women in same-sex marriages, and illegal immigrants, features not included in the 2012 House version of the bill. Now, [...]
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15 weeks ago
On January 29, 2013 President Obama gave his “The Time is Now” speech, which ushered in his administration’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislative initiative. A day earlier, a bipartisan group of four Republican and four Democrats (the “gang of eight”) also announced that they will [...]
34 weeks ago
By Rena Malai, News staff NASW staff members took part in a Capitol Hill rally in June to advocate for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (S.1925), as the House’s version of the bill contains language that leaves out the LGBT population, Native Americans and undocumented immigra[...]
34 weeks ago
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) has joined with the Mental Health Liaison Group (MHLG) in sending a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell asking for their support of the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Th[...]
36 weeks ago
By Paul R. Pace, News staff In addition to upholding the Affordable Care Act, the U.S. Supreme Court in June handed down decisions in two other cases that are important to NASW and social workers. The high court struck down the majority of Arizona’s immigration policy that critics charged as being[...]
48 weeks ago
President Obama announced important news on the issue of immigration about which the social justice and human rights community, including NASW, is excited. As reported today by most major media outlets: “The Obama administration announced on Friday that it would no longer seek the deportation of m[...]
54 weeks ago
The pervasive use of racial profiling as a policing tactic is an example of a social justice issue that is in need of reform. According to the World English Dictionary, racial profiling is defined as, an assumption of criminality among ethnic groups: the alleged policy of some police to attribute cr[...]
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