DC Office of Human Rights

Moved by the #MeToo wave that swept America and sexual assault allegations that rocked the Supreme Court confirmation process, the D.C. Council stood in solidarity last fall against sexual abuse in all of its ugly forms.

At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman introduced a bill on Tuesday that would increase penalties for landlords who refuse to rent to people who use federal rental assistance vouchers (previously called Section 8 vouchers) to pay their…

The number of hate crimes in the District rose sharply in 2018, nearly doubling the total attributed to bias in the city just two years earlier, according to city statistics.

Given history, it is understandable that supporters and critics of anti-discrimination laws focus on ethnicity. Yet these laws and regulations specifically name other “protected classes,” and efforts to weaken regulations and their…

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced on Wednesday that his office reached a settlement with the Cuba Libre Rum Bar and Restaurant that requires the establishment to adopt policies and procedures to prevent it from discriminating…

As the Trump administration moves to limit civil rights protections for transgender people, the D.C. government is working to assure its citizens that local laws will continue to cover them. "Gender identity and expression are explicitly…

A transgender woman has dropped a discrimination complaint against a downtown D.C. restaurant that forced her to leave its premises in June because she used the women’s restroom after it agreed to take a series of actions in support of the…