Recent Discrimination Articles page 6

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 ...

Boston Globe - Layton seldom encountered discrimination, except in the one place where he felt the wound most acutely: his home state of Virginia. "I know firsthand what it is like to be excluded, deliberately passed over, discriminated against, even insulted ...

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 ...

News.com.au - The Federal Government should pass laws prohibiting health discrimination on the basis of consumption choices. Otherwise the character and moral failings of medicos will result in an increasing amount of preventable suffering in the community. Dr ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

News.com.au - The child, a daughter named Izabella, was 13 months old by the time the pregnancy discrimination case went to court. During the six-week trial, the actress stunned the court by revealing she was eight-months pregnant. That child, a daughter named ...

Miami Herald - ... fatal to them because they don't have the cash reserves,'' she said. And then there are institutional challenges. Miami-Dade County is one of many U.S. municipalities that has had to abandon its minority contracting programs amid reverse-discrimination ...