Sentences with phrase «affect immigrant women»
In a way, it's a culmination of the work she's been doing in Canada over the last 17 years focusing on gender - based violence and how immigration policies, such as sponsorship rules, affect immigrant women negatively.
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The respondents said time - wasting on the Internet, intergenerational differences, integrating immigrants, and employee wardrobe choices are more serious challenges than issues affecting women and minorities.
The Public Advocate argued that the issues of poverty and income inequality disproportionately affect women, immigrants and people of color.
«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president of the American Psychological Society (APS) in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would disproportionately affect people living in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities, women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.»
But according to media reports, immigrant rights groups are being flooded with calls from fearful parents, along with pregnant women afraid to go to the hospital and crime victims afraid to call the police — all affected by the new law.
«Because the justice gap disproportionately affects women, immigrants, minorities,» Sonday feels strongly that «those groups should have influence into the tech solutions that we are building and have their voices heard because they are so close to these issues.»
Legaltech founders have surprisingly low diversity (as noted, only 5 % are black / Latinx), which is especially problematic given that the justice gap disproportionately affects women, immigrants, and minorities.
Her expertise includes the immigration consequences of criminal convictions; issues affecting immigrant children and mixed families; immigration consultant and consumer fraud; naturalization; family immigration; legal status for immigrant victims of domestic violence through the Violence Against Women Act provisions (VAWA); and trial skills.
NOIVMWC advocates for various issues affecting immigrant and visible minority women.
And, like Rosie the Riveter, they are changing perceptions about the power of women in immigrant cultures to affect change.
Speakers decried dangerous legislation that adversely affects low - income people, workers, people of color, women, LGBTQIA people, people with disabilities, immigrants, and the environment.