Elements of Friday’s collections from six Native designers ran the gamut from silk parasols to a quilted hoodie, knee-high fur boots and suede leather earrings that dangled to the waste. Models on the Santa Fe catwalks include professionals, dancers and Indigenous celebrities from TV and the political sphere.
in December 2023 in a move he called thoughtful, limited and “pro-life.” The GOP-supermajority Legislature quickly overrode the action.Justice Pat DeWine, the governor’s son, joined the three Republican justices elected in November — Joseph Deters, Megan Shanahan and Dan Hawkins — in reinstating enforcement of the law. Chief Justice Sharon Kennedy, and Justices Jennifer Brunner and Pat Fischer dissented.
The law calls for banning counseling, surgery and hormone therapy for youth, unless they are already receiving such therapies and a doctor deems it risky to stop, as well as containing the sports provisions.The litigation was filed in March 2024 by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Ohio and the global law firm Goodwin, who argued the law not only denies health care to transgender children and teens, but it specifically discriminates against them accessing it by allowing the use of identical medications for other purposes., but later succeeded in getting the law temporarily blocked by a panel of the 10th District Court of Appeals, which reversed the lower court judge’s decision allowing the law to go into effect, on grounds it “reasonably limits parents’ rights.”
The Center for Christian Virtue, which lobbied for the law, lauded Tuesday’s ruling.“The General Assembly has every ability to enact laws protecting children like the SAFE Act,” President Aaron Baer said in a statement, “and the Supreme Court sided with the Ohio Constitution by overturning the lower court.”
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Major social media platforms such as Instagram and YouTube have failed to protect LGBTQ+ users from hate and harassment, in part, because they intentionally rolled back previous safety practices, the advocacy group GLAAD said Tuesday in its annual
The report said that recent “unprecedented hate speech policy rollbacks” from Instagram and Facebook parentAlso Tuesday, the U.N. Security Council has scheduled emergency closed consultations on Sudan.
The U.N. migration agency said Monday the RSF attacks in Zamzam camp have displaced between 60,000 to 80,000 families in the past two days. The majority of the families remain within El Fasher, which is under military control but has been besieged by the RSF for over a year.Mamadou Dian Balde, the U.N. refugee office’s regional director, said in a video press conference with U.N. correspondents that “massive violations of human rights” have forced almost 13 million Sudanese to flee their homes, including 4 million who fled to other countries. Most fled to Sudan’s immediate neighbors, but more than 200,000 have gone to Libya and about 70,000 to Uganda, he said.
Balde said the U.N. refugee agency’s appeal for $1.8 billion to help the millions of refugees and their host nations is only 10% funded. He warned that if it doesn’t get more money, people will move toward southern Africa, east Africa, the Gulf countries and Europe.“We really hope that tomorrow’s event in London will also show greater support for the Sudanese brothers and sisters who have been displaced,” Balde said.