Women's Rights Project: 2006 Project Report
February 21, 2007
In 2006, the ACLU Women's Rights Project advanced our core areas of focus and continued to play a unique role in the women's movement by bringing together four often-unrelated sectors of social justice advocacy -- employment, violence
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The ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) are bringing a landmark case on behalf of researchers, pathologists, breast cancer and women’s health groups, and individual women affected by the patents on two genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer. It's wrong for companies to own the rights to pieces of the human genome.
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