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MARCH 2009 |
FIGHTING FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES IN |
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ACLU Celebrates Women’s
History Month
March is Women’s History Month
Women have made great strides in the fight for equality, but gender bias continues to create huge barriers for many—especially immigrants, women of color, women with low incomes, and victims of domestic violence. Women's History Month offers an opportunity to celebrate women and the strides we’ve made towards equality, and to recommit ourselves to the ongoing struggles for women's rights, such as ensuring economic and educational opportunities for all women, ending violence against women, and addressing the harms to women and girls caught up in the criminal justice system. Since 1972 the ACLU Women's Rights Project has been working to systematically end discrimination against women and girls and to challenge the obstacles that prevent women and girls from participating fully in all aspects of society. Recent Victories
· Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act · Crawford v. Nashville - sex discrimination in the workplace · Fitzgerald v Barnstable School Committee - sex discrimination in public schools · Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act · Medina v. County of San Bernadino - religious freedom of female inmates · Lewis v. North End Village, et al. – housing discrimination of domestic violence victims Cases to Watch
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A.N.A. v.
U.S. Department of Education - sex segregation in public schools ·
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v Nedelkoff - inhumane treatment of young female inmates · Jones v. Hayman - women detained in a men’s prison · Domestic Workers Petition to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights · Jessica Gonzales v. U.S.A. - domestic violence as a human rights issue · Undocumented Workers Petition the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Work in
The ACLU of Alabama also engages in work to advance the
rights of women here in
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Fair Housing: In GumBayTay and Bahr v. Boswell, we argue that the sexual
harassment of our client and similarly situated women violated the federal
Fair Housing Act, which prohibits discrimination in housing based on race,
color, national origin, sex, religion, familial status and disability. ·
Education:
After discovering that a
middle school in Mobile County was segregating students into all-boy and
all-girl classes and applying different teaching methods based on gender, we
are working ensure that, in the future, students are not segregated by gender
and that all students are provided equal education opportunities. ·
Reproductive Freedom: When resources permit, we monitor the
Alabama Legislature and inform the public, lobby against anti-choose
legislation, and advocate to preserve and strengthen reproductive health care
and quality sex education in Thank you for your continued support of civil liberties
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Olivia Turner Executive
Director, ACLU of T: 334-262-0304 | F: 334-269-5666 |
info@aclualabama.org |
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