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The Virginia Community Rights Network has been launched to support local efforts to recognize and legally secure the Rights of Nature and Communities to a healthy environment through self-government at the city, county, and state level.
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A new law making Virginia the first state in the South to enact comprehensive protections for the LGBTQ+ community against discrimination in housing, employment, public spaces, and credit applications takes effect on July 1.
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The concept of civil disobedience (defined by Merriam-Webster as the “refusal to obey laws as a way of forcing the government to do or change something”) dates back to the dawn of civil society.
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The House of Representatives today passed legislation to defend Americans against attacks on their voting rights.
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The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights oganization, celebrated Virginia’s newly elected pro-equality majorities in both the House and Senate.
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It’s been 230 years since James Madison drafted the Bill of Rights—the first ten amendments to the Constitution—as a means of protecting the people against government tyranny, and what do we have to show for it?
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The League of Women Voters of the United States and the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia today filed an amicus brief along with partner civil rights groups in the D.C. voting rights case Castanon v. United States.
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It seems that we settled on the notion that modernity and civilization, and international laws that prohibit crimes against humanity, will be enough to prevent future genocides.
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Senate Democrats celebrated an expansion of voting rights as SB1026 passed both the House of Delegates and Senate and now moves to the governor for his signature.
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Attorney General Mark Herring has secured more than $50 million in debt relief and ordered civil penalties as a result of his lawsuit against Future Income Payments.
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