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Equity Forward conducts extensive research and investigative work to ensure the transparency and accountability of groups and individuals who are attacking human rights, including reproductive freedom, gender equity, access to quality healthcare racial justice, and equal protections for LGBTQIA+ communities. We conduct robust public records research, qualitative interviews, opposition research, legislative tracking, and policy analysis. In addition to our research-driven campaigns, we provide fact sheets, reports and public records analyses. We break down complicated findings and make our information easily accessible and user-friendly for the communities we work with.

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Fact Sheets

Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration: A Pseudoscientific, Paternalistic Bid To Ban Medication Abortion Care

Julia Bourkland, Research Assistant - February 23, 2023 Fact Sheets

The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine et al.’s efforts to hinder access to medication abortion are rooted in an anti-human rights political agenda, not science.

Abortion, Abortion Bans, Anti-Abortion Lobby, Courts, Human Rights, Reproductive Justice

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Biden Administration Timeline: Advancing Equity-Driven and Inclusive Health and Human Rights Policies

EF Staff - December 13, 2022 Fact Sheets

Equity Forward has created an interactive policy timeline to track the Biden administration’s progress in enhancing data collection across various demographic groups, using gender inclusive language, and restoring research on reproductive health care access in federal policies and reports.

Biden Administration, HHS, Human Rights, State Department, USAID

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Biden Administration Timeline: Restore U.S. Foreign Policy Around Human Rights Including Protections for SRHR and LGBTQIA+ Communities

EF Staff - December 12, 2022 Fact Sheets

Equity Forward has created an interactive policy timeline to track the Biden administration’s progress in restoring U.S. foreign policy around human rights including protections for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Biden Administration, Commission on Unalienable Rights, Human Rights, International, Reproductive Justice, State Department, United Nations, USAID

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Biden Administration Timeline: Protect Immigrants’ Human Rights and Reproductive Freedom

EF Staff - November 16, 2022 Fact Sheets

Equity Forward has created an interactive policy timeline to track the Biden administration’s progress in protecting the human rights, reproductive freedom, and bodily autonomy of immigrants, and investigating past abuses.

Abortion, Biden Administration, HHS, Human Rights, Reproductive Justice, State Department

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The Majority of the Commission on Unalienable Rights Members Have Egregious Track Records on Reproductive Rights

EF Staff - July 16, 2020 Fact Sheets

The Commission largely comprises right-wing, anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ hardliners who were all appointed by Pompeo. This fact sheet focuses on the commissioners Equity Forward found to have problematic human records with particular attention to reproductive rights.

Abortion, Commission on Unalienable Rights, Human Rights, State Department, Trump Administration

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Trump’s HHS Office for Civil Rights: Ideological Agenda, Nationwide Impact

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EF Staff - February 26, 2020 Fact Sheets

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Under the Trump administration, OCR has pursued policies and taken actions to further a radical, ideological agenda at the expense of its underlying mission.

Anti-LGBTQ, Human Rights, Trump Administration

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