FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE— January 27 2017
[NEW YORK] – Today, Donald Trump followed through on one of his racist and xenophobic campaign promise—ban refugees and immigrants from largely Muslim countries. This ban is accompanied by a drastic reduction in the number of refugees the US will take and a series of other undefined and vague provisions that could be used as a pretext to surveil and profile those who enter the United States.
GJC's Vice President and Legal Director, Akila Radhakrishnan, was today quoted in Rebecca Grant's article on Vice Broadly, "Trump’s Massive Expansion of the Global Gag Rule Will Kill Women, Advocates Warn".
Read about how Trump's reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule contradicts UN policies in Barbara Crossette's article in PassBlue, "Trump’s ‘Gag Rule’ Contradicts UN Policy Helping Women in Distress".
Read about Trump's expansion of the Global Gag Rule in Lisa Nicolau's article in Humanosphere, "Trump’s gag rule endangers the lives of women around the world".
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE— January 24 2017
[NEW YORK] – Yesterday, Donald Trump re-instated the Global Gag Rule, as every Republican president since Ronald Reagan has done since taking office. Unlike his predecessors, Trump far expanded the reach of the Gag Rule.
