Discrimination Articles page 7

Boston Globe - The demand for money unfairly targets agencies helping the most vulnerable citizens and perpetuates "persistent discrimination of people with disabilities," said Desilets. SMOC reported $46 million in revenue and more than $3 million in assets to the ...

Houston Chronicle - The rebels have been fighting since 1983 for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka's minority ethnic Tamils after decades of discrimination at the hands of the Sinhalese majority. More than 70,000 people have been killed in the fighting, 5,000 of ...

CBS News - More than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been uprooted since ethnic African rebels in Darfur took up arms against the Arab-dominated Sudanese government in February 2003, accusing it of decades of discrimination. Sudan's government is ...

Los Angeles Times - The PKK, which rose up in the 1980s in reaction to discrimination against Turkey's Kurdish population, carved out bases in Iraqi Kurdistan in the 1990s. Over the years, it has fought intermittent battles with both main Iraqi Kurdish political ...

International Herald Tribune - The violence began when ethnic African rebels in Darfur took up arms against the Arab-led government in 2003, accusing it of decades of discrimination and neglect. The government is accused of retaliating by unleashing a militia of Arab nomads known ...

Times of India - RK, New Delhi, says: Well, the guilty official should be punished for dereliction of duty without any discrimination of party politics. Why should such official be shielded who doesn't take interest in his duty? Such discredited persons should ...

Seattle Times - ... scoring a career-high 21 points in the Sun Devils' season opener against North Carolina, is out for the season. • Fresno State attorneys are asking a judge to overturn a multimillion-dollar verdict against the university in a gender-discrimination ...

Miami Herald - ... Florida's top election officials this week told election supervisors to ignore a handful of voting law changes because federal authorities are still reviewing them to see if they would adversely affect minority voters. Because of past discrimination ...

Philadelphia Daily News - And in her campaigns, she advocated new services for women and opposed sexual discrimination, though few measures were adopted under her government. In her personal life, Bhutto surprised many by agreeing to an arranged marriage in 1987 with Karachi ...

Seattle Times - That measure added sexual orientation to a state law that bans discrimination in housing, employment, insurance and credit on the basis of such characteristics as race and religion. Supporters acknowledge that full gay marriage is their ultimate goal ...