PRESS RELEASES
Justice Department Announces $49.85 Million in Office on Violence Against Women Grants to Support Legal Services and Related Programs for Survivors
The Department of Justice announced today nearly $50 million in Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) grants to provide survivors of gender-based violence with access to legal services and improve effective coordination of justice systems impacting victim and family safety. Specifically, OVW awarded a total of $35,659,296 to 59 grantees [...]
Justice Department Sues Idaho to Protect Reproductive Rights
Complaint Alleges Idaho Law Violates the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act: The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit to protect the rights of patients to access emergency medical care guaranteed by federal law. The suit challenges Idaho Code § 18-622 (§ 18-622), which is set to go into effect [...]
Pope apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school policy in Canada
More than 150,000 native children in Canada were forced to attend government-funded Christian schools from the 19th century until the 1970s. MASKWACIS, Alberta — Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church's cooperation with Canada's "catastrophic" policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native [...]
