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How Millennials are Using Digital to Take a Stand on Issues They Care About
Millennials are the first generation of true digital natives. They were just babies during the advent of Apple’s first laptop and teens when the Nokia 3210 mobile phone launched…
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NAD Shares Insight Behind Closed and Open Captions
Howard A. Rosenblum, National Association of the Deaf (NAD) CEO, takes a moment to explain the purpose of the Joint Recommendation and the Comment that…
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Poverty is at its most deadly when it becomes normal
By Ally Fogg When is poverty at its most dangerous? It is not, as you might think, when we begin to notice the frequency with…
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Kick Butts Day Webinar Series Announced: Mini-grants, Activities and Action
Join the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 from 3-4 p.m. EST for their first webinar about Kick Butts Day 2015 and the launch of…
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Settlement reached in SPLC’s pre-kindergarten discrimination lawsuit
A Florida pre-kindergarten program will take steps to ensure it does not discriminate against children with diabetes as part of a settlement agreement announced today to resolve…
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Is a Business’s Social Practices Worthy of Your Dollars? Use HRC’s Buyer’s Guide
More than ever, consumers are sending a message to businesses that they are watching. They are watching to see if the businesses they patronize understand…
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How MADD is Promoting a Safer Holiday Season Through Its ‘Tie One On for Safety’ Campaign
Tie One On For Safety®: Started in 1986, Tie One On For Safety® is Mothers Against Drunk Driving’s (MADD) longest running and most visible public…
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Raise your voice for Human Rights on #GivingTuesday
Amnesty International has defended human rights for over 50 years. While you can’t buy human rights, you can help Amnesty fight for them. When you give…
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Protect the Rights of the American Deaf & Hard of Hearing on #GivingTuesday with NAD
Established in 1880, the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is the nation’s premier civil rights organization of, by and for deaf and hard of…
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Recent wave of immigrant children may have revitalized nativist extremist movement
As the president took action to allow more undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States, the SPLC released a major report examining the possible…
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Case Study: Embedding Human Rights Across a Global Technology Company
For Microsoft, implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights posed three main challenges: First, the technology sector can affect a number of…
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Rating U.S. Workplaces on LGBT Equality
Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2015 Corporate Equality Index is the national benchmarking tool on corporate policies and practices pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender…
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