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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Global Spotlight: Disaster Relief for Nepal Earthquake Victims
Groups step up to help Nepal’s earthquake victims.
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Associations Weigh In on Test-Optional College Admissions
Are the SAT and ACT on the way out? A record number of colleges and universities dropped standardized…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
The Associations Responding to the Death of Cecil the Lion
In Zimbabwe, a safari group in the country is taking a lead role in responding to the death…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Transgender Groups: Healthcare Not Easy to Come By
Gender identity in the doctor's office is becoming a major healthcare issue—and with advocacy groups speaking up, it…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
25 Years Later: The ADA’s Landmark Passage Evokes Reflection
Disability rights groups, many of which spent the 1980s fighting for equality on the ground level, won a…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Greece: Boating Industry Warns of Potential Austerity Effects
A group representing boatmakers in Greece says that a plan to tackle the country's financial problems by imposing…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Study: New Wireless Spectrum Slow to Reach Consumers
Efforts to allocate wireless spectrum may not be completed as quickly as hoped, a recent study found. According…
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Seventh-day Adventist Politicians Gain New Association
Politics can be a difficult balance for Seventh-day Adventists to achieve, but a new networking group hopes to…
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Groups Approve of Senate’s No Child Left Behind Rewrite
Groups like the National Education Association have been pushing for education reform for more than a decade. Now…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Should New York City Cap The Number of Uber Drivers?
After New York City’s mayor and city council dropped legislation that would have put a cap on the…
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Mixed Reviews Follow News of Likely AT&T-DirecTV Merger
The two major telecom firms have pulled off a merger like one that Comcast and Time Warner Cable…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
EFF Calls for DMCA Changes After Jeep-Hacking Report
In the wake of a recent report highlighting the potential for vehicle hacking on the roads, the Electronic…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Taylor Swift’s Shrewd Strategy for Fighting Counterfeiters
At the same time a major fashion industry trade group is already grappling with a glut of counterfeit…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Affordable Care Act: Business Groups Double Down
The National Retail Federation and nearly two dozen other trade groups are asking the Senate to take action…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Cambodian Government to Approve Strict NGO Regulations
Operating a nongovernmental organization in Cambodia is about to get a lot more complicated. The Southeast Asian country…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Authors Guild Wants ISPs to Track Book Piracy
The trade group that represents book authors is upping its policy game, arguing that the “safe harbor” policies…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Sen. Schumer: DOJ Should Investigate Airlines’ Data-Blocking
With the airline industry already facing a Justice Department probe, the Democratic senator from New York said this…
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Bottled Water Industry Wants to Bring Back Sales In National Parks
The International Bottled Water Association applauded recent action in Congress that could end a ban on the sale…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Obama Presidential Pardons Build on Associations’ Work
The president's focus this week on criminal justice issues—which will culminate in a historic visit to a federal…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
LGBT Groups Welcome Military’s Transgender Policy Shift
In another groundbreaking move for LGBT military policy, the Pentagon said it will allow openly transgender people to…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Associations: Help Federal Employees hit by OPM Data Breach
A host of associations are speaking out about the two recent Office of Personnel Management data breaches affecting…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
After Flag Goes Down, NAACP Lifts South Carolina Boycott
The board of directors of the leading civil rights group ended its 15-year-long boycott of the state on…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
IATA Calls for Better Sharing of Airline Cyberthreats
After a set of recent cyber attacks and high profile disruptions of airline computer systems, the International Air…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Restaurants Get Calorie-Count Reprieve, But Associations Still Want Changes
Food-industry groups say that the FDA’s plan to delay the implementation of calorie-disclosure rule is welcome, but groups…
