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Suffrage

1909 Women's Conference

Remembering Australia’s role in the history of women’s suffrage

Elections

The year 2020 marks a century since American women gained the right to vote. But they were part of a much broader movement that began 25 years earlier in Australia.

Angel Sanchez spent 12 years in a Florida state prison. Today, he is a law student at The University of Miami and an advocate for voting rights for formerly incarcerated individuals.

‘I lost my right to vote before I ever had the right to vote’

Conflict & Justice
an "I voted" sticker

Citizenship through the eyes of those who have lost the right to vote

Commentary

Texas fights Department of Justice over voting rights laws

After VRA Ruling, Florida Looks to Make Sweeping Changes Without Oversight

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Argentina debating granting right to vote to teens, immigrants

Global Politics

Argentina’s president has a proposal out to grant the right to vote to a number of people who currently are disenfranchised, namely 16- and 17-year-olds as well as immigrants who’ve lived in the country for two years.

NAACP turning to U.N. as it protests ‘concerted attack’ on minority voting rights

Global Politics

The NAACP is mounting a counter attack against what it says is a concerted effort to repress the voting rights of poor, predominantly Black and Hispanic voters in America.

How the Voting Rights Act Came to Be

Today the Supreme Court hears arguments in Shelby County v. Holder, the case that will determine the constitutionality of Section 5  of the Voting Rights Act. Signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965, the Voting Rights Act represented a significant achievement for the young activists of the Civil Rights Movement. Section 5 forces states and select […]

Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court hears arguments today in what could be a landmark Supreme Court ruling regarding the state of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The act, first signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, was a major piece of civil rights legislation aiming to reverse a practice that long disenfranchised black Americans. Today a key […]

Argentina Bill Would Expand Voting Rights

Conflict & Justice

Critics of voter ID laws in the US say the measures are intended to limit who can vote. In Argentina, the government is being criticized for trying to do the opposite. A bill currently being debated would dramatically expand voting rights.

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