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On November 4, 2020, 4th congressional district candidate Kathy Barnette sued Montgomery County officials in federal district court. Barnette claimed the county's board of elections violated the state's election code by inspecting ballot envelopes for missing information, a process known as pre-canvassing, and by giving voters a chance to correct such deficiencies.
A 2020 Report by Aurat foundation on "Violence against women and girls in the time of Covid 19 pandemic" from identified 25 districts of Pakistan reported 2297 cases of domestic violence against women which included crimes like honor killings, murder, rape, suicide, acid burning, kidnapping; out of which 57% cases were reported from Punjab, 27% ...
Fifty Years Old and Proud of It: The League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania Looks Back to 1920 and on to the Future (PDF). Philadelphia: League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania. Brown, Ira V. (April 1965). "The Woman's Rights Movement in Pennsylvania, 1848-1873". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 32 (2): 153–165.
Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Baptist Temple.
In 2019, it was reported that the 2011 grand jury report also resulted in Lynn being suspended from ministry. [26] IN 2023 he was sentenced to 37 months in prison. [27] On May 5, 2020, Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced that it now expected to pay $126 million in reparations. [28]
Pennsylvania Hall, "one of the most commodious and splendid buildings in the city," [2] was an abolitionist venue in Philadelphia, built in 1837–38.It was a "Temple of Free Discussion", where antislavery, women's rights, and other reform lecturers could be heard. [3]
In 2018, the Philadelphia Police Department's Gun Violence Reduction Task Force was founded within the Detective Bureau. The Task Force was created to focus on violent offenders & prior convicts (felons) in possession of firearms. In 2019, 72 Philadelphia police officers are taken off street duty over racist and hateful Facebook posts. [26]
Seeking to strengthen the UN's institutional arrangements for gender equality and women empowerment, resolution 63/311 supported the consolidation of four distinct parts of the UN system that focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment into a composite entity to be led by an Under-Secretary-General. Moreover, the resolution ...