Recent Discrimination Articles page 7

Miami Herald - Arguing that it would lead to discrimination against all immigrants, opponents also said it would turn landlords into de facto immigration police. The hostility toward immigrants is not a new phenomenon in America. In the mid-19th century, the Irish ...

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 ...

BBC UK News - An ex-magistrate who failed to get an exemption from hearings in which he might have to place children with gay couples is beginning an appeal. Andrew McClintock, of Sheffield, says he faces discrimination for his Christian beliefs. His appeal ...

Times of India - Women in Pakistan, especially in rural and tribal areas, are victims of discrimination and violence. Pakistan’s former tourism minister Nilofar Bakhtiar had to resign in May after hardline clerics accused her of obscenity for hugging an ...

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 ...

News.com.au - Unfortunately, 42 per cent experienced discrimination of some kind during an interview. Another 30 per cent experienced rudeness or disrespect while 22 per cent were asked inappropriate questions about things such as their appearance, age, marital ...

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 ...

Guardian Unlimited - Israel is a democratic state but in practice there is discrimination on many levels. But it doesn't mean we should give up and not try to implement co-existence." The message is everywhere. One class of excited 10-year-olds sat before their two ...

Guardian Unlimited - We would love to have more judges who are women and/or from ethnic minorities, provided they're chosen on merit and not by positive discrimination or the setting of quotas. Over the past 15 or so years successive lord chancellors have promised, and ...

Miami Herald - We women in the Congress have managed to be respected, but the road here was a long road, and there were many acts of discrimination along the way,'' said Argentine Sen. Silvia Ester Gallego, who helped lead the push in 1991 to pass the quota laws. ...