Grantee Partner
Military sex assault lawsuit aims to remove some commanders from overseeing cases
Sex assault victims filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Department of Defense in an effort to take commanders with “misogynistic and sexist tendencies” out of legal proceedings for sexual harassment and sexual assault cases. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/31/military-sex-assault-lawsuit-aims-to-remove-some-c/
Local
Will Congress Let Hunger Hold Women Down?
Working women, already sacrificing and scrambling, face another threat. The budget proposals from the House of Representatives and the Senate threaten to slash SNAP, compounding cuts in effect since November 2013. http://citylimits.org/2015/03/31/will-congress-let-hunger-hold-women-down/
National
Child poverty impacts brain growth: study
Children of richer, better-educated parents have bigger brains and more cognitive skills than their less-fortunate peers, but social help and teaching can help to overcome the differences, a study published on Monday said. http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/child-poverty-impacts-brain-growth-study-article-1.2168380
Obama Just Changed the Lives of 22 Americans Caught in the Cross Fire of the War on Drugs
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 22 inmates serving time for drug crimes committed at least a decade ago. The move more than doubled the number of commutations the president has handed down to inmates in the federal prison system, the Huffington Post reports. http://mic.com/articles/114214/obama-just-changed-the-lives-of-22-americans-caught-in-the-cross-fire-of-the-war-on-drugs
The growing trend of transgender ‘bathroom bully’ bills
Nevada, Florida, Texas and others have proposed bills that would bar trans kids from using certain school bathrooms. http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/4/1/transgender-bathroom-bills-are-a-statewide-trend.html
Foreign Adoptions by Americans Drop to Lowest Level Since 1982
State Department data show 6,441 children were adopted from abroad in fiscal 2014, down from about 23,000 in 2004. http://www.wsj.com/articles/foreign-adoptions-by-americans-drop-to-lowest-level-since-1982-1427837631?mod=WSJ_hp_RightTopStories
International
How Brazil’s President Plans to Get the Country and Herself Out of This Mess
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff is battling to regain the trust of voters and global investors alike as the economy sinks and a corruption scandal deepens. On Tuesday, she charted what she hopes is a path to recovery. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-01/dilma-rousseff-charts-path-from-petrobras-scandal
Philanthropy/Non-Profit
Nonprofit Exec Accused of Defrauding Families of Human Trafficking Victims
Peter Senese, the Founding Director of the I CARE Foundation, which advertises itself as a “self-funded non-profit organization dedicated to preventing child abduction and trafficking,” has been charged with allegedly defrauding parents whose children were victims of international abduction. http://www.nynp.biz/index.php/breaking-news/24766-nonprofit-exec-accused-of-defrauding-families-of-human-trafficking-victims
Opinion
The Effect of Women on Corporate Boards
Germany is the most recent European country to require many of their large corporations to reserve a percentage of corporate board positions for women – in this case, 30 percent of the boards of some 100 companies. Some advocates say that having female board directors is good for business, while others argue that a quota doesn’t need to generate financial result to be fair. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/01/the-effect-of-women-on-corporate-boards
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