Tag: Executive Order
License for Actions Harmful to Women, LGBT People
An executive order issued by President Donald Trump on May 4, 2017, opens the way to overriding regulations that protect women’s health, Human Rights Watch said today.
OutRight comments on signing of Religious Freedom Executive Order
President Donald Trump is scheduled to sign an Executive Order titled, “Establishing a Government-Wide Initiative to Respect Religious Freedom,” as early as today.
Trump’s Executive Order Will Lead to Persecution of LGBTIQ People Globally
On Monday, President Donald Trump signed into power an Executive Order to block citizens of six majority Muslim countries from entering the United States.
DOL Issues Regulations Ensuring Federal Contractors Comply with LGBTQ Non-Discrimination Protections
Today, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued final regulations implementing President Obama’s executive order on Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces.
Only in America : Kansas Governor Brownback Issues Anti-LGBT Executive Order
Last Tuesday, the Human Rights Campaign, the America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation denounced Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s executive order encouraging blatant discrimination against LGBT Kansans in the name of religion.
With Executive Order, Obama Takes His Place in History
In a White House ceremony this morning, President Obama will sign a sweeping executive order protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) workers from job discrimination. The order, profoundly consequential in its own right, dramatically underscores President Obama’s own LGBT legacy of achievement, unmatched in history: three landmark pieces of legislation; 90 significant policy or regulatory changes, including the largest conferral of rights in history to LGBT people via the implementation of the Windsor decision; and 15 federal judicial and seven ambassadorial appointments.