Children's Rights, Civil Rights
In a child marriage, one or both parties are under age 18 when they enter the union. Child marriage can easily be forced, because children have limited legal rights and therefore face overwhelming legal and practical barriers if they try to escape or resist an...
Children's Rights, Civil Rights, Healthcare
Conversion therapy—efforts to change an individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression—is a practice that is not supported by credible evidence and has been disavowed by behavioral health experts and associations. Conversion therapy perpetuates...
Civil Rights, Criminal Justice Reform, Drug Policy, Healthcare
In spite of efforts to improve mental health systems of care, for many decades those living with mental illness have suffered devastating proportions of mistreatment. Overcrowded state hospitals and attempts to acknowledge the civil rights of their occupants led to...
Civil Rights, Healthcare, Inclusion
Transgender people have the right to be themselves. Over the last five years, 1% of the American population has been targeted, from their healthcare to their access to basic facilities. PDF: Talking About Transgender People & Restrooms PDF: Transgender Medical...