by Joshua Houston | Dec 13, 2019 | Human Rights, Latest Posts
Texas Impact and the Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy have joined with other religious organizations in an effort lead by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs to file an amicus brief, in HIAS v. Trump urging the U.S. District Court in Maryland to grant an...
by Bee Moorhead | Dec 9, 2019 | Climate Justice, Global Climate Policy, Human Rights
Today at COP25, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, alongside UNICEF and several young climate activists, launched the Intergovernmental Declaration on Children, Youth, and...
by Joshua Houston | Dec 6, 2019 | Action Alerts, Human Rights, Race & Gender, Religious Freedom
The Trump Administration is removing nondiscrimination provisions that would allow religious providers to discriminate against LGBT persons, Muslims, Jews, or even Catholics in the provision of taxpayer funded public services. American religious liberty protects the...
by Bee Moorhead | Dec 2, 2019 | Climate Justice, Global Climate Policy, Human Migration, Human Rights
The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, ActionAid International, Coastal Association for Social Transformation Trust (COAST Trust), and the Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas (FAWCO) hosted a side event to discuss the current realities of climate migration and how we...
by Joshua Houston | Nov 15, 2019 | Human Rights, Religious Freedom
Texas Impact and the Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy have joined with other religious organizations to file an amicus brief in Espinoza v. Montana urging the U.S Supreme Court to reaffirm traditional American religious liberty. For many religious traditions,...
by Bee Moorhead | Oct 10, 2019 | Human Rights
Take Action: Tell Congress to End MPP Now Early in the morning on Thursday, October 10, migrants began blocking the Gateway International Bridge in Brownsville in protest of the Administration’s “Migrant Protection Protocol” (MPP), also known as Remain in Mexico,...
