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Major Agency Sites
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Enforces laws which prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or age in hiring, promoting, setting wages, or other conditions of employment. Also conducts investigations, files lawsuits, and sponsors voluntary assistance programs for employers, unions and community organizations.
- Virginia Departmeht of Rehabilitative Services
Provides services to individualss with disabilities to maximize their employment, independence, anf full inclusion into society.
- U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Collects information and issues reports on incidents of discrimination or denials of equal protection of the laws because of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin in such areas as voting rights, enforcement of Federal civil rights laws and equal opportunity in education, housing, and employment.
Periodicals
Annual Rights Reports
- Annual Report on International Religious Freedom
Reports on the status of religious freedom in each country. Also details government policies which violate religious beliefs or the practice of religion by individuals or groups. Issued in September by the State Department.
Annual Report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
Issued annually on May 1st by an advisory commission, the report investigates violations of religious freedom as reported in the State Department's Annual Report on International Religious Freedom and offers policy recommendations to the U.S. Congress and executive branch. Also critiques the State Department's efforts to promote international religious freedom.
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Annual State Department reports to Congress on human rights practices of the countries of the world prior to January 2001. See also below under "Human Rights Reports."
Human Rights Reports
Annual State Department reports to Congress on human rights practices of countries of the world as compiled by the current administration. See also above under "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices." for past archived reports.
Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record
Annual reports to Congress by the Department of State on actions taken by the U.S. Government to promote respect for human rights in countries with the worst human rights records.
Trafficking in Persons Report
Annual report by the Secretary of State to Congress on U.S. efforts to monitor and combat trafficking in persons for purposes of sex or slavery/enforced servitude.
Information and Enforcement Programs
- ADA Best Practices Tool Kit for State and Local Governments
Information on how to identify and fix problems that prevent people with disabilities from gaining equal access to state and local government programs, services, activities, and facilities. From the Justice Department.
- Americans with Disabilities Act: A Guide for People with Disabilities
Brief guide for workers that explains basic rights under ADA, defines and offers examples of "reasonable accommodations" by employers, and discusses complaint procedures. Joint effort of the Social Security Administration, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Justice Department.
- DisAbilityInfo.gov or Access America for People with Disabilities
Information on federal programs, services, and resources for the disabled. Created by the Presidential Task Force on the Employment of Adults with Disabilities.
Federal Protections Against National Origin Discrimination
Information about federal laws that prohibit national origin discrimination, how the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department can help, and how you can file a complaint.
Red Book on Employment Support
Summary guide to employment assistance available to people with disabilities. From the Social Security Administration.
Section 508.gov
Section 508 regulation requires that federal agencies' electronic and information technology be accessible to people with disabilities. This site gathers resources for understanding and implementing the requirements of Section 508. From the Center for Information Technology Accommodation of the General Services Administration.
Rules and Regulations
- EEOC Regulations
Full text of new, proposed, and existing regulations on employment discrimination. Also covers rules scheduled for review in the next year.
Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards
Covers rules and regulations related to access for the disabled as developed by the U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board.
Statistics
- Disability
Offers data, reports, and research papers on disabled Americans from the Census Bureau. Data include types of disabilities, employment, and earnings levels.
- Enforcement Statistics and Litigation - EEOC
Data on the types and outcomes of discrimination cases handled by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
- Litigation Statistics - EEOC
Yearly statistics on lawsuits filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1992 to date with case outcomes and monetary benefits achieved.
Historical Publications
- Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, Final Report
Reviews history and standards of federal government radiation experiments on humans from the 1940s through the 1970s, current policies covering such research, and offers recommendations for the future.
Delivering on the Promise: Preliminary Report of Federal Agencies' Actions to Eliminate Barriers and Promote Community Integration.
A status report on federal agency efforts to assist disabled people by removing obstacles to their full integration into the community. Also includes Executive Order 13217 and background information on the new freedom initiative. Resulted in New Freedom Initiative.
Enforcing the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act): A Status Report from the Justice Department
Describes law suits and other enforcement actions by the Justice Department on a quarterly basis from 1994 to date.
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
Offers full text of the publications of the Civil Rights Commission from its inception in 1957 with title, subject, date and Sudoc call number access. From the Thurgood Marshall Law Library of the University of Maryland School of Law.
National Bioethics Advisory Commission Publications
Includes full text online access to all commission publications including Cloning Human Beings and reports that investigated ethical aspects of stem cell research, international clinical trials and other research involving human participants.
Unequal Justice: African Americans in the Virginia Criminal Justice System
Report of the Virginia Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights on allegations of racial discrimination, especially in the Hampton/Newport News Peninsula area. Offers findings and recommendations which focus on complaints of racial profiling surveillance activities by police, inadequate state funding for court-appointed attorneys, credibility problems with disciplinary system relating to judicial or prosecutorial misconduct, sentencing disparities by race and gender, and restoration of civil rights for convicted felons discharged from the criminal justice system.
Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election:
Findings and recommendations of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission following an investigation of the Florida 2000 presidential election. From Commission home page, click on "2000 Vote and Election Reform" under "Voting Rights."
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