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Women's Rights:
The ACLU's Women's Rights Project was co-founded in 1972 by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Through litigation, community outreach, advocacy and public education, WRP empowers poor women, women of color and immigrant women who have been victimized by gender bias and face pervasive barriers to equality. Learn more about the WRP.


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Womens Rights : Legal Documents

Lewis v. North End Village - Request for Relocation and Early Lease Termination Form (02/26/2008)

Lewis v. North End Village - Complaint Form (02/26/2008)

Lewis v. North End Village - Employee Manual Amendment (02/26/2008)

Medina v. County of San Bernardino - Order Denying Motion to Dismiss (02/25/2008)

Corcoran v. German Social Society - Decision (02/21/2008)

Medina v. County of San Bernardino - Opposition to Motion to Dismiss (02/11/2008)

Webb v. City of Philadelphia - Amicus Brief (01/09/2008)
On January 9, 2008 the ACLU Women's Rights Project, Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, and the ACLU of Pennsylvania filed an amicus brief in a case concerning the right of a Muslim woman to cover her hair while working as a police officer. The brief documents a wide range of police, public safety, and military organizations across the country and around the world that recognize that they may maintain the uniformity of appearance necessary to function effectively while permitting individual officers to wear clothing and to deviate from grooming regulations when the officers do so as part of a religious practice.

ACLU Complaint in Jones v. Hayman (12/12/2007)

ACLU Complaint in Medina v. County of San Bernardino (12/06/2007)

Petition of UN Domestic Workers to the IACHR (11/15/2007)

Jessica Ruth Gonzales v. The United States of America: IACHR’s Admissibility Decision (10/05/2007)

Caldero Intervenors’ Post August 20, 2007 Evidentiary Hearing Brief in U.S. v. New York City Board of Education (09/14/2007)

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