Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
by Avi Smolen & Randa Kuziez, Faiths Act Fellows, Washington DC According to the World Health Organization, half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria. It is nearly impossible to conceive of the numbers of actual people behind this figure-billions of people at risk. The good news is that the survival rate has […]
by Michael Branson Last Wednesday, October 22, President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law. The Act expands the 1969 federal hate-crimes law to include crimes motivated by the victims’ gender identity or perceived sexual orientation. In addition, the bill, which stalled in Congress two years ago […]