APRIL IN HISTORY
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1965
Considered the nation's most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction (1865-1877), it prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. Following that law, US President Lyndon B. Johnson signed landmark civil rights bills including the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act.
April 1965
(President Johnson reaches to shake hands with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after presenting the civil rights leader with one of the 72 pens used to sign the Civil Rights Act. (AP Photo)
"PROTECTING CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD"
The mission of the International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies (IAOHRA) is to provide opportunities and forums for the exchange of ideas and information among member agencies and other human rights advocates.
IAOHRA provides assistance in the development of programs for eliminating illegal discrimination in employment, housing, education, public accommodations, public services and commercial transactions, including banking and lending practices.
We develop educational programs on human rights and civil rights issues, and serves as a clearinghouse for information exchange between human rights agencies around the world.
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We connect you to the best and brightest experts in every issue area critical to the human and civil rights effort through IAOHRA meetings and professional training opportunities, you’ll connect with civil rights professionals with your same interests and concerns.
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Since 1949, IAOHRA supporters have been vigilant and vigorous defenders of civil and human rights for all. We’ve made great progress on important issues, but there is much more work to be done.
You are vital to IAOHRA in assisting us in fulfilling our goal.
We have more civil and human rights history to make.
OUR OBJECTIVE
The goals of IAOHRA are:
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To foster human and intergroup relations.
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To enhance human rights practices under law.
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To promote civil and human rights around the world.
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The association has provided leadership in the development and enforcement of needed statutes and ordinances-local, state, and federal - to safeguard the human and civil rights of all people.
IAOHRA Congratulates IAOHRA Alantic Region Member
Governor Phil Murphy Nominates Rachel Wainer Apter To NJ Supreme Court
NEW JERSEY - Gov. Phil Murphy has selected a nominee to serve New Jersey's highest court, slated to fill the seat Supreme Court Justice Jaynee LaVecchia will leave behind later this year.
Last week, Lavecchia, 66, announced her plans to retire from her position by August 31. During a press conference Monday, Murphy announced the associate justice nominee as Rachel Wainer Apter, the current director of the Division of Civil Rights in the New Jersey Attorney General's office. The division is the agency responsible for enforcing the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, the nation's oldest anti-discrimination law, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability and other protected characteristics.
Wainer Apter is an Englewood resident and a native of Rockaway Township. She is a Morris Hills High School and University of Pennsylvania graduate with a J.D. from Harvard Law. The nominee once clerked for the former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The nomination announcement was made at Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall at Rutgers University–Newark, on what would've been the former U.S. Supreme Court Justice's 88th birthday. Read more
Rachel Wainer Apter, who was nominated by Gov. Phil Murphy to be an associate justice of the state Supreme Court, speaks in the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall, at Rutgers University-Newark, Monday, March 15, 2021. - Photo credit AP