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She added that time should be given "to ensure any legislative changes do not conflict with existing and hard-won protections for agency workers".

While Diamond himself didn’t have interest in the adult bookstores or shops he represented, he saw attempts to stifle them as trampling on hard-won 1st Amendment rights.

The charity told the BBC "an organisation-wide consultation" has begun and said that "hard-won rights are being rolled back for marginalised communities across the world".

Rwanda's fear was that they could return and upset the country's hard-won stability.

It is devastating to consider that the hard-won Civil Rights Act could be used to gut the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, weaponize the Department of Justice as a political asset, and codify the oppression of marginalized people.