Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students in California are more than twice as likely to be harassed or assaulted at school based on their sexual orientation than for their race or ethnicity and four times more than they would be for a disability, according to new survey data released this week.
The data, released Thursday, comes
The first of CAHRO’s three workshops in November was a smashing success. Over 40 people from across the region gathered in Riverside to discuss "Creating a more informed and inclusive multicultural society: working to eliminate prejudice, intolerance and discrimination.”
Today a nationwide coalition of more than 15 organizations, including Everyday Democracy and the Southern Poverty Law Center, has launched the “Campaign to Combat Implicit Bias”, a campaign to raise public awareness about implicit bias and to encourage action to combat its impact. The Within Our Lifetime Network, the campaign sponsor, is a network of racial healing practitioners and racial equity advocates who are committed to ending racism. We heal communities, dismantle beliefs and advocate for just policies.
Los Angeles County Public Defender Ron Brown walked into a Pomona court Wednesday and saw first-hand the impact of Proposition 47 — the voter-approved initiative that reduces penalties for drug possession and other nonviolent crimes.
Not In Our Town’s new film Waking in Oak Creek documents the powerful community response to the hate crime killings at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin on August 5, 2012. After six Sikh worshippers were killed and Oak Creek Police Lieutenant Brian Murphy was shot 15 times by a white supremacist, the town leadership worked together to cultivate new bonds with the Sikh community and guide the community forward toward healing.
In order to get rid of the stereotypes that follow disadvantaged minorities who are admitted to college through race-conscious affirmative action, admissions policies would have to hold the disadvantaged group to higher standards than their more advantaged peers.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Tim Cook’s declaration on Thursday that “I’m proud to be gay” made him the first publicly gay chief executive of a Fortune 500 company. But Mr. Cook isn’t just any chief executive. And Apple
Three women spoke to The Toronto Star about the former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi, accusing him of violent behavior. None of them wanted to be identified by name. And their reason for anonymity offers a stark lesson about the effects of online harassment.
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The California Association of Human Relations Organizations (CAHRO) will be hosting a series of workshops in November. We hope you will join us and be a part of our work to strengthen the infrastructure of human relations organizations in California.
San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies called gay, bisexual and transgender inmates "sisses" and "freak shows" and denied them access to services given to other inmates, civil rights attorneys alleged in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
