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The Freedom Forum Institute hosted a day-long summit assessing sexual misconduct in the media industry. The event concluded with a panel discussion composed of journalists and news editors, …

The Freedom Forum Institute hosted a day-long summit assessing sexual misconduct in the media industry. This portion of the event included a conversation with current and former officials fr…

Following a short break, members from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) returned to the Q&A portion of a public hearing to review sexual harassment prevention strategie…

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) held a public hearing to review sexual harassment prevention strategies in the workplace. Witnesses included workplace advocates and u…

Chai Feldblum talked about the government’s role in enforcing laws that make it illegal to sexually harass an individual in the workplace. She spoke via video link from Boston. Phone lines w…

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Commissioner Chai Feldblum spoke at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law about Friday’s Supreme Court ruling legal…

Chai Feldblum talked about gender equity 50 years after the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Topics included gender stereotyping, pay equity, sexual harassment, and the rights of pregnant women in the…

To mark the 20th anniversary of the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act, Senator Tom Harkin, a chief sponsor of the act, moderated two discussions. In this, the second panel, vari…

Participants discussed the nomination of Judge John Roberts to the Supreme Court and the potential impact of his appointment on issues of concern to the gay, lesbian, and transgender communi…

The guests discussed the Supreme Court case to be heard December 6, 2005, Rumsfeld v. F.A.I.R. (Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights), concerning the constitutionality of the Solomon …

Participants talked to reporters about their support of the President’s announcement regarding medical-record confidentiality. They stressed the importance of this privacy for all patients, …

A town meeting on gays and lesbians in the workforce. Members of government, academic, and media organizations participated in this forum to discuss the workforce environment and the concern…

A former clerk of Justice Blackmun’s and other Supreme Court scholars concerning the life and accomplishments of retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun.

Speakers responded to an announcement by Defense Secretary Les Aspin on guidelines affecting gays serving in the military. They felt that the measure did not go far enough in affording prot…

Participants discussed the president’s decision to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military. They supported the president’s original effort to totally eliminate the ban and feel that this…

On this second panel of the American Bar Association’s forum on civil rights, several speakers talked about various topics such as: challenges of civil rights lawyers, the struggle of the Hi…

George Mason University Professor Joseph Broadus and Georgetown University Law Professor Chai Feldman discussed the issue of Gay and lesbian rights. The guest law professors discussed federa…

The National Commission on AIDS, a fifteen-member commission named by Congress to advise the government on the creation of a national policy in response to the HIV epidemic, met in Washingto…

Witnesses testified on the problems facing AIDS patients and what the government is doing in response. This was the first meeting of the National Commission on AIDS.

The National Organizations Responding to AIDS spoke to reporters about their recommendations to the transition team as George H.W. Bush prepared to take office.