HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 2 (TNSgov) -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut posted the following news release on Feb. 1, 2023: Lawmakers from the Connecticut General Assembly and civil rights, labor, grassroots, and faith-based organizations joined together in calling for the passage of the Connecticut Voting Rights Act (CTVRA). By enacting this landmark bill, Connecticut would join California, Oregon, Washington, Virginia, and New York as states with their own voting rights act  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 2 (TNSgov) -- LatinoJustice PRLDEF posted the following news release on Feb. 1, 2023: Lawmakers from the Connecticut General Assembly and civil rights, labor, grassroots, and faith-based organizations joined together in calling for the passage of the Connecticut Voting Rights Act (CTVRA). By enacting this landmark bill, Connecticut would join California, Oregon, Washington, Virginia, and New York as states with their own voting rights acts to bolster protections agai  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 31 (TNSgov) -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund issued the following news: Lawmakers from the Connecticut General Assembly and civil rights, labor, grassroots, and faith-based organizations joined together in calling for the passage of the Connecticut Voting Rights Act (CTVRA). By enacting this landmark bill, Connecticut would join California, Oregon, Washington, Virginia, and New York as states with their own voting rights acts to bolster protections aga  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, Jan. 25 (TNSrpt) -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, issued the following news release: Two-thirds of the population in Yemen are struggling daily after eight years of conflict that has forced many from their homes, with seven children reportedly dying in camps for displaced people this month alone in freezing temperatures, said Save the Children in a call for more f  more

NORWALK, Connecticut, Jan. 23 (TNSres) -- The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued the following news: The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Chookaszian Accounting Research Center (CARC) of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business recently announced the launch of a series of symposia intended to encourage and support academic research relevant to financial reporting issues that are the subject of early-stage standard-setting activities. The FASB and the CARC   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (TNSgov) -- The National Health Law Program posted the following news release: A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction in a pending case against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), ordering HHS to stop enforcing an illegal Trump-era Interim Final Rule (IFR) that continues to strip vital Medicaid benefits away from hundreds of thousands of older adults and people with disabili  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, Feb. 2 (TNStalk) -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, issued the following remarks on Jan. 31, 2023, by President and CEO Janti Soeripto at a United Nations news briefing on Afghanistan: * * * This week, I had the privilege to speak with local communities and NGOs - Afghan women and men. Their message was clear: they want us to restart the work, resume classes, conti  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, Feb. 2 (TNSrpt) -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, issued the following news release: More than 122,000 people are reported to have fled their homes over the course of one day after another escalation in conflict in North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), leaving thousands of children vulnerable to abuse, Save the Children said. Armed clashes  more