Discrimination Articles page 8

Philadelphia Inquirer - Despite her glamorous assignments, she expressed frustration that she was relegated to social stories while male colleagues wrote about the president. She became a leader among women journalists in the '50s, '60s and '70s, protesting discrimination ...

Chicago Sun-Times - He also fought to curb racial discrimination in city hiring and aldermanic bribe-taking. "I have had my share of notorious defendants. Leon Despres stood for principle and for justice," former U.S. District Court Judge George Leighton argued to a jury ...

Miami Herald - In fact, when my office opened an investigation in 2005 of possible discrimination in mortgage lending by a number of banks, including national banks, the OCC filed a federal lawsuit to stop the investigation against the national banks. Throughout our ...

San Francisco Gate - ... to Project Sentinel, 1055 Sunnyvale- Saratoga Road, Suite No. 3, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, or call (408) 720-9888 or (888) 324-7468. To find the fair housing agency serving the area where you live or have property, call the Housing Discrimination Hotline ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D., Del.). This week. The House will consider bills on workplace discrimination and small-business contracting. The Senate will continue to debate fiscal 2008 budgets for the departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human ...

International Herald Tribune - The Tigers 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 ...

Belfast Telegraph - It will depend partly on whether a country so used to being among the leading nations of the sport will tolerate a dip in performance that would probably come about as a result of pursuing positive discrimination. President Mbeki has said in ...

Daily Telegraph - Both direct and indirect discrimination against migrant workers from the EU is prohibited," it adds. The study, requested by the Conservatives, comes as official projections this week are expected to forecast an increase in the population to more than ...

St. Petersburg Times - Why not use a picture of Susan Stanton, whose story personifies many of the issues and concerns around this type of discrimination? While the people in the picture deserve protection from discrimination as much as anyone, the Times' choice in ...

Guardian Unlimited - ... The ways of God's worship are not at all entrusted by us to any human power"); a general amnesty and an end to conscription; a system of laws that must be "no respecter of persons but apply equally to everyone: there must be no discrimination on ...