Discrimination Articles page 5

Detroit News - NORTHVILLE TOWNSHIP -- The township and some of its officials are the targets of a federal religious discrimination lawsuit for allegedly harassing Roman Catholic priests -- the residents of a house on Seven Mile -- conducting Bible studies. The suit ...

Seattle Times - The rule makes clear employers can spend more on retirees younger than 65 than those older than 65 without running afoul of age-discrimination laws. In practice, retirees in both age groups might get essentially the same benefits, but it is less ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Fresno State attorneys are asking a judge to overturn a multimillion-dollar verdict against the university in a gender discrimination case involving former women's basketball coach Stacy Johnson-Klein . She sued Fresno State claiming gender ...

Guardian Unlimited - Partly because of their effort to join the EU, Turkey's Islamists have made huge strides in reducing the discrimination that Kurds in Turkey have long suffered. As a result, support for the PKK has fallen significantly, although a new generation of ...

Detroit Free Press - The City Council may soon extend the city's Human Rights Ordinance to protect transgendered people from discrimination in employment, housing, education and public accommodations. Friday, leaders of the area's gay, lesbian and transgendered community ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - Discrimination is an interesting concept. According to R. Andrew Swinney and R. Duane Perry, it is appropriate discrimination for the city and/or "the gay community" to discriminate against the Boy Scouts because of their moral judgment and action ...

Detroit Free Press - Because the words and leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. resonate far beyond a single culture or ethnicity, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of Michigan is inviting Arab- and Chaldean-American high school students to write an essay ...

Forbes - When Malta joined the European Union in 2004 it committed to adjusting the state monopoly controlling the import, storage and wholesale of petroleum products within two years to prevent discrimination against companies from other EU countries. The EU ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - To liberals, crime is a product of racial and economic discrimination and will not lessen until we take steps to produce an equitable society. Zimring calls this the "No Peace Without Justice" school of thought. The peace-and-justice quotient did not ...

Los Angeles Times - Ford's difficulties sprouted in the wake of the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, where 18,000 people gathered to debate the legacies of the slave trade, colonialism and racial and caste discrimination. Some activists at ...