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In 1954, the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in Brown vs Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas, ruling that segregation of schools was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. This bolstered the cause of integration. In the same year, however, one powerful U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. and his equally influential political organization [...]

According to a complaint of Amnesty International (AI), women in Iraq suffer from systematic discrimination and violence directed against them specifically because of their gender. AI has also noted that Iraqi law allows ‘honorable motives’ in murder cases of women by their husbands, parents, and teachers. These result in exemption from criminal [...]