New Report Reveals that Equal Treatment Remains Out of Reach for LGBT Americans in Most States – Discrimination Continues Even With Marriage Equality WASHINGTON-(ENEWSPF)- The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, in partnership with the Equality Federation, today released its first[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Sudan: Doctors Without Borders Hospital Bombed in South Kordofan, Jan. 22, 2015
NEW YORK/PARIS—(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015. A hospital operated by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was directly targeted in an aerial bombing in Sudan on January 20, forcing the suspension of medical activities, MSF announced today. The hospital, located in the Nuba Mountains village of Frandala[Read More…]
UN Security Council Strongly Condemns Terrorist Attack in Eastern Ukraine
A UNHCR staff member asks a displaced Ukrainian man about the situation in his native Donetsk region, which has been heavily affected by the conflict. Photo: UNHCR/I. Zimova (file) NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–22 January 2015 – The United Nations Security Council has condemned ‘in the strongest terms’ today’s shelling which resulted in[Read More…]
Senator Elizabeth Warren Announces Legislation to Advance Medical Research in Remarks at Families USA Conference
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015. In remarks at the Families USA Health Action Conference in Washington, DC today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren announced plans to introduce new legislation to advance medical research. “Over the past fifty years, the American system of medical innovation has transformed the health of[Read More…]
Senator Bernie Sanders: Republicans Ignore Climate Science
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015. Senate Republicans on Thursday refused to acknowledge the scientific consensus that global warming is a real, man-made threat to the planet and that time is running out to stop burning the fossil fuels scientists blame for worldwide climate change. “The American people need to know whether[Read More…]
Center for Reproductive Rights: U.S. House Passes Bill to Deny Millions of Women Reproductive Health Care Coverage
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015. After canceling a vote originally planned for today on an unconstitutional federal abortion ban following loud opposition over the bill’s cruel, narrow exceptions, the U.S. House of Representatives instead voted on and passed a bill that would deny insurance coverage of abortion care for millions of[Read More…]
Rigorous Economic Study Demonstrates COOL Labels Have Not Harmed Trade Partners
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015. Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter “Today, Auburn University agricultural economics professor C. Robert Taylor released a groundbreaking study that demonstrated that the U.S. Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) law has not undermined Canada and Mexico’s livestock exports to the United States.[Read More…]
Rep. Jan Schakowsky Statement Against the Continued Republican War on Women
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)—January 22, 2015. “House Republicans planned to vote on the ‘Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,’ this week, which proposed a 20-week abortion ban. However, Republican women and their supporters strongly opposed it, so it was not called for a vote. I believe that was a great moment, but[Read More…]
Department of Defense Press Briefing by Secretary Hagel, Jan. 22, 2015
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel conducts a press briefing at the Pentagon, Jan. 22, 2015. Hagel discussed a range of topics from sequestration to sexual assault prevention. He also thanked service members and said he is proud of them. DoD photo by Casper Manlangit Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 22, 2015 SECRETARY OF DEFENSE[Read More…]
ACLU: House Passes Extreme Abortion Coverage Ban
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015. The U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R. 7, a bill designed to take away abortion health coverage from millions of women. If the bill were to become law, it could cause the entire insurance market to drop abortion coverage. “By passing a mean-spirited bill that[Read More…]
