• The members of the Security Council reiterated their demand that all parties to armed conflict immediately cease completely all forms of sexual violence and all human rights abuses against the civilian population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in particular gender-based violence including rape and other forms of sexual abuse.

    UN: Security Council

  • Four UK personnel will be headquarters-based and three civilians from the Foreign Office's Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative will provide human rights and gender awareness training.

    BBC: Malian troops boarding a French military transport plane

  • By a 2 to 1 vote, the court of appeals said that the state's interest in investigating child sexual abuse, outweighs the minor's rights to privacy.

    NPR: Slate's Jurisprudence: Kansas Sex Ban Challenged

  • The EHRC was formed in 2006 when the previous Commission for Racial Equality expanded to cover issues of age, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and the promotion of human rights.

    BBC: Public Accounts Committee

  • In Germany, for example, workers' councils often deal with issues such as sexual equality, race relations and workers' rights, all of which might be seen as ethical issues in America.

    ECONOMIST: Doing well by doing good

  • Nevertheless, the court's ruling further smudges the already blurred line between discrimination on the basis of sex, which is what is actually outlawed by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (the primary source of sexual-harassment law), and mere incivility or, in Mr Oncale's case, criminal assault.

    ECONOMIST: Men, women, work and law

  • The Mad Men series begins in 1960 when the major milestones of the sexual revolution, Women's Liberation and the Civil Rights movements are still years away.

    FORBES: Mad Men--Why Gen Y Women Need To Tune In

  • Also, in the violent video game case, the Court held that children have full First Amendment rights, except in narrowly defined areas, primarily sexual expression.

    FORBES: "Voluntary" Food Marketing Regs Draw Constitutional Scrutiny

  • Even if deans and faculty could overcome their propensity to conduct due-process deficient investigations and prosecutions of sexual assault and rape, universities would still confront Office for Civil Rights-imposed requirements that direct them, after police investigations, to proceed with their own.

    WSJ: Peter Berkowitz: Is Yale University Sexist?

  • Even while hiding his sexual orientation, Collins says, he quietly made a statement for gay rights by wearing No. 98 with the Celtics and Wizards: 1998 was the year Matthew Shepard, a gay college student in Wyoming, was killed, and the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization, was founded.

    NPR: 'I'm Gay': NBA Player Jason Collins Breaks Barrier

  • Last week in West Yorkshire, the Islamic Society of Britain, alongside the civil rights movement Hope not Hate, launched the Community Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation.

    BBC: Uncomfortable truths of child exploitation in Britain

  • According to an April 1 AP story, complainant Alexandra Brodsky, class of 2012, said that the Office for Civil Rights complaint also deals with Yale's failure to respond properly with sexual assault and rape.

    WSJ: Peter Berkowitz: Is Yale University Sexist?

  • African Catholic women would like to see the end to all kinds of sexual, physical, and emotional abuses of women in marriages, sexual harassment and exploitation in public offices and in some churches, and the suppression of the rights of women in African society.

    CNN: What Africans want from the next pope

  • In recent decades, the movement for children's rights has significantly reduced rates of spanking, bullying, paddling in schools, and physical and sexual abuse.

    WSJ: Steven Pinker: Why Violence Is Vanishing

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