Link About It: This Week’s Picks
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Tag: Human Rights
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Via thecut.com
A Guide to Legal Protection When Seeking Abortion
Since Roe was overturned, abortion has become illegal in several states—a change that puts people terminating pregnancies at risk of being charged with various crimes. For this reason, The Cut has published …
Via pinknews.co.uk
First-Ever US Passport Issued With “X” Gender Designation
In order to respect and reflect the “lived reality” for many, the first-ever US passport marked with “X” as the gender has been issued. The new gender designation option will hopefully give …
Via them.us
Canadian Court Rules Misgendering is a Human Rights Violation
Four years ago, Canada passed the legally unprecedented C-16 bill, meant to protect people who are transgender and gender-nonconforming from discrimination based on identity. Last week, the bill was tested for the …
Art as Action: Forensic Architecture
Part activism, part research agency, part creative endeavor
Countable App
This tool makes information about legislation understandable and accessible, plus offers ways to get your voice heard
Via out.com
Vietnam Lifts Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
While it’s not the equivalent as making same-sex marriage legal, Vietnam’s recent move to lift the ban on gay marriage is a step in the right direction—and means that couples won’t face …
Link About It: This Week’s Picks
Self-driving cars, Cuba's lung cancer vaccine, Einstein's handwriting as a font and more in our weekly look around the web
Interview: Kyleigh Kühn of Roots of Peace
Discussing development, inspiration and overcoming tragedy with the family-run organization's preeminent humanitarian
Free World Reader
A print quarterly that presents a holistic view of conflict in the DR Congo in a graphically stunning fashion