SACRAMENTO, California, June 29 (TNSres) -- Equality California issued the following statement on June 28, 2024: * * * Equality California, the nation's largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, released the following statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang in response to the release of the 2023 Hate Crime in California report by the Office of California Attorney General Rob Bonta: "The report released today by the Attorney General reveals that, although overall hate incidents  more PR

VIENNA, Austria, June 29 (TNSres) -- The International Press Institute issued the following news: At least 12 journalists were killed in sub-Saharan Africa in 2023, according to monitoring by the International Press Institute (IPI)'s Africa programs. These incidents are among the nearly 600 cases of attacks on journalists and other threats to press freedom that IPI documented in the region last year. Altogether, IPI documented 591 cases affecting journalists across 40 countries across sub-Sah more PR

NEW YORK, June 29 (TNSres) -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund issued the following news: On June 12, 2024, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed a brief in its ongoing St. John the Baptist Parish school desegregation case in Louisiana seeking to close Fifth Ward Elementary and relocate its students to more environmentally safer facilities at La Place Elementary School. Fifth Ward Elementary is a school in St. John the Baptist Parish serving over 300 students, nearly all of whom are B more PR

LONDON, England, June 29 (TNSres) -- The British Natural History Museum issued the following news release: The Moroccan trilobites were encased in hot ash in sea water, perfectly preserving them in 3D. * Newly discovered Moroccan fossils entombed in volcanic ash show features never seen before in 3D form * The arrangement of legs, and exceptionally preserved soft tissue, such as the trilobites' mouthparts and internal organs, can be seen in exquisite detail * Fossilisation was so rapid that  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 29 (TNSres) -- The National Partnership for Women and Families issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: * * * Asian women and Latinas spend the most time on unpaid caregiving per capita * * * The National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF) released a new analysis today, finding that Americans' unpaid care work - two-thirds of which is done by women - is valued at more than $1 trillion each year. The research is based on the 2023 American Time Use Survey relea more PR

NEW YORK, June 29 (TNSres) -- The Vera Institute of Justice issued the following news release on June 28, 2024: * * * A new report from the Vera Institute of Justice presents a snapshot of each jurisdiction's progress toward developing a system of high quality, equitable postsecondary education in prison in the first year of Pell Grant reinstatement * * * Today, the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) released The First Year of Pell Restoration: A Snapshot of Quality, Equity, and Scale in Priso more PR

PORTLAND, Oregon, June 29 (TNScapv) (TNSres) -- The Mercy Corps issued the following statement on June 28, 2024, with 20 organizations: * * * Following 14 months of escalating conflict, Sudan has become the world's largest hunger crisis with over half of the country experiencing severe food insecurity. 25.6 million people are projected to face acute food insecurity or worse (IPC 3+) during the upcoming lean season. This is almost a 40% increase in the number of food insecure people over the la more PR