Discrimination Articles

News.com.au - LABOR leader Kevin Rudd is sustaining discrimination by refusing to support homosexual marriage, Australian Greens leader Bob Brown says. Mr Rudd today while campaigning in the federal election that he would not change his mind on restricting ...

Nashville Tennessean - In the last 10 years, claims for religious discrimination filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have increased by almost 50 percent. Although fewer in number than claims for other types of discrimination, such as gender, race and ...

St. Petersburg Times - Supreme Court rulings in the last 20 years on civil rights and sex discrimination have opened schools up to potentially huge financial punishments for abuses, driving some schools to act. And the National Association of State Directors of Teacher ...

Miami Herald - The police have given us assurances that they don't do the work of immigration agents,'' Martínez said. ``If they did this, it was due to discrimination and racism. They destroyed a family. They destroyed the dreams of these people. They left an ...

Los Angeles Times - Has Gates forgotten about the 45 states that have laws or constitutional amendments barring same-sex marriage, or the anti-gay discrimination bill that is stalled in Congress and faces opposition from the White House? Not at all. There is, he says, a ...

Globe and Mail - Mac - GLG from Canada writes: Don't blame the schools. Schools don't buy video games and take the kids for fast food four times a week. The lifestyle starts at home and school activity is almost the same now as when I went 45 years ago. Orange Latern ...

Miami Herald - We women in the Congress have managed to be respected, but the road here was a long road, and there were many acts of discrimination along the way,'' said Argentine Sen. Silvia Ester Gallego, who helped lead the push in 1991 to pass the quota laws. ...

International Herald Tribune - WASHINGTON : Democrats sent legislation to the full House of Representatives on Thursday that would prohibit workplace discrimination against gays, lesbians and bisexuals, despite bitter complaints from some because transgender workers would not be ...

Forbes - The agreement also prohibits the Fischers from engaging in future discrimination and requires them to retain an independent manager to manage their rental properties. Fighting illegal housing discrimination is a top priority of the Justice Department ...

Los Angeles Times - Can a law prohibiting job discrimination itself be discriminatory? That's the charge being leveled against a compromise version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act , or ENDA, a bill in Congress that would add sexual orientation — but not ...