There are multiple kinds of discrimination that people can face, and some populations of people are subject to more than one kind of discrimination. Most people understand that women can face gender-based discrimination or abuse in their workplace. Quite a few others...
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Fear of workplace retaliation keeps victims of harassment quiet
Women working in law enforcement, whether they patrol the roads as police officers or secure prisons as correctional officers, do great civil service as part of their daily work. They likely take a lot of pride in the job that they do while also putting their safety...
What remedy does the law provide for sexual abuse victims?
Avenues of legal recourse for crime victims are often widely paved and wholly satisfactory as conduits for securing justice against wrongdoers. That is, criminal perpetrators are held fully accountable for their unlawful conduct, with relevant law punishing them in a...
Sex abuse findings from study the second time around: about the same
No improvement.That is largely the bottom line evidenced by researchers after they culled the results from a voluminous study spotlighting the prevalence of sexual abuse on America’s university campuses. And that concerns them for this narrow and direct reason:...
What constitutes sexual harassment in New Mexico?
You love your new place of employment, but there's a problem. One of the coworkers that you need to be around frequently keeps commenting on your looks. It seemed harmless at first, since they were saying they liked your hair or a certain part of your outfit, but now...
What is a whistleblower? Here’s what you should know
You were at work when you saw your managers having a relatively private meeting at an unusual time. You thought you saw money change hands, which seemed odd. You ignored it at the time, but you later overheard someone talking about the "bonus" they'd gotten after...
Alarming: the problem re Internet imagery of abused children
We submit that no other news story garnering headlines presently is as immediately gripping and tragically sad as what we report below in our blog post for this week.We are well accustomed at our established client-empowering Albuquerque...
Common predator profile underscored in NM child sexual abuse case
Justice delayed.But not denied. That might logically be the concluding statement of some commentators remarking on what took place in an Albuquerque federal courtroom last Friday.In a much-watched trial, U.S. District Judge Martha Vazquez finally provided a notable...
Female police officers take a stand against harassment
Nine female officers took a stand against sexual harassment and gender discrimination in a recent lawsuit against the Philadelphia Police Department. According to Billy Penn, it roughly equals one suit every other month for the east coast station.The court documents...
A high-profile abuse case, but with sadly common elements
A national news piece reports that a former ice-skating student recently filed a lawsuit alleging repeated acts of sexual abuse inflicted upon him by a coach when he was a minor.And he also posed a searing question that is sadly asked recurrently by legions of...