Recent Discrimination Articles page 4

Xinhua News Agency - Claiming discrimination at the hands of the Sinhala majority, the LTTE has been fighting the government since the mid-1980s to establish a separate homeland for the minority Tamils in the north and east. More than 5,000 people have been ...

Guardian Unlimited - In a world that is struggling to overcome sex discrimination, female children seem desperate to emphasise their girliness. Bigger women are not ashamed to go out in public sporting discordances of pink; they carry pink luggage, wear pink backpacks ...

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 ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - In my administration, we will not subsidize discrimination." He said the council could keep its token rent by changing its policy, noting that some local scouting organizations have broken with the national leadership on the issue. The council has ...

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 ...

Philadelphia Daily News - Foes, including the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, worry that finding some sort of genetic marker will foster discrimination by giving parents more reason for prenatal testing and even terminating the pregnancy if they find out their unborn ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - Down that path lie dangerous new forms of discrimination and inequality, and vastly widened social rifts. Advocates of this eugenic vision understand that few people are willing to entrust even Nobel Prize winners with the future of the species. How ...

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 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 ...

Washington Post - The violence began in 2003 when rebels in Darfur took up arms against the Arab-dominated government, which the rebels accused of decades of discrimination and neglect. The government is accused of retaliating by unleashing a militia of Arab nomads ...