Sentences with phrase «about discrimination against»

VANCOUVER — Yesterday, the BC Court of Appeal (BCCA) released its judgment in a case about discrimination against Vancouver's street homeless population.

Dedicated to raising awareness about the discrimination against Pit Bulls, Corry snapped a photo of Angel posed in front of the White House with a sign, asking the President to be a voice for the oft - maligned dogs.

Read about discrimination against Indonesian Chinese here: http://custom-essay-writing-service.org/blog/prejudice-and-discrimination-against-indonesian-chinese.html

There are all kinds of gender organisations who complain about discrimination against women and I hope they have read this article by George Andah in the course of his campaign.

I think it would be more worthwhile to write an article about the discrimination against and criticisms of Mormons, who are also Christians and part of Christianity.

Before anyone starts yelling about discrimination against Christians and Jews or censorship, it's important to note that the movie adaptation leaves out several other key pieces of the story.

Not exact matches

«In start - up companies, it's all about «who do I trust» and sometimes nepotism will come in,» Fraedrich says, and family - run businesses have to be especially vigilant against an ethical lapse that could lead at best to employee dissatisfaction and at worst to a discrimination suit.

But US companies have complex relationships with the Chinese market; they complain about discrimination and over-regulation but they want access, so they don't support actions against the Chinese government on trade and investment.

Now, after the close of Pao's gender discrimination lawsuit against VC giant Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the two are optimistic that the trial could help advance gender diversity, by moving dialog about diversity to the forefront.

I want to scream «NO, it's about discrimination for the groups you care about against the rest of humanity!»

We are talking about adoption agencies being required to assign children to gay couples, colleges and universities being required to offer same - sex couples access to married housing, and any number of similar scenarios revolving around perceived discrimination against gays and lesbians.»

The other point, is that Graham, Cathy, and the other religious nutters want to legalize and legislate discrimination against a group of US citizens simply because the purposefully choose to be ignorant about the science of sèxual orientation.

Whatever their exact number, Christians are leaven in deeply troubled Pakistan whose Muslim majority disallows increasingly the Prophet's teachings about restraint from violence and his injunctions to honor the Ummah (religious community) Internecine Muslim murders are a daily occurrence in Pakistan, and, whatever the discrimination against Christians, it is more social and economic in nature and far less violent than what Muslims do to one another.

If you approve of planes flying into buildings, dressing women in cloth bags, denying stem cell research, discrimination against women, gays and anyone with alternate beliefs, denying contraception to people who can't afford families, picketing soldiers funerals, etc, etc, then keep your fuzzy mindset about good and evil.

I would find it laughable if it weren't so disgusting that so many so - called «Christians» go out of their way to demonize gays, and incite violence and discrimination against gays, and yet when someone turns around and calls them bigots or explains why they think the «Christian» position is wrong, then they moan about how horribly they are being oppressed and discriminated against.

«Throughout this and other gay - marriage campaigns, some queer activists have expressed their own discomfort about feeling obligated to fight for an institution about which they feel ambivalent while other essential battles — against HIV / AIDS, homelessness, domestic violence, and general discrimination — struggle for money and media attention,» wrote Deirdre Fulton in the Portland Phoenix.

Speaking on BBC Radio Lincolnshire, Peter Tatchell said: «He can't perhaps comment about the individuality of that particular case, but he certainly could comment on the principle, which is that he has, in the past, supported legal discrimination against gay people.

Questioned about homosexuality, he stressed that the Church has fought more than any other group in Africa to stop discrimination against homosexual people, and at the same time he clearly stressed that the family is formed from a man and a woman, open to procreation and following the teaching of the Catholic Church.

Their sense of reasoning about unconditional love appears to be non-existent when compared with ongoing prejudice and discrimination against others.

But surely the Christian cause would have derived an incalculable gain if, at the loss of even millions of dollars, it were to bring about a day when the bogey of intermarriage could no longer serve as an excuse for perpetuating our unjust social discrimination against our colored brothers.

There were so many aspects of this that were interesting — the women - dominated elite profession and the discrimination against men, the way the government intended to use the science in its war, the polarization of society about the science and the practitioners of empirical philosophy... And amidst all of this?

In his column for the FIFA Weekly, the 78 - year - old spoke about the need to tackle discrimination in the game and that «no half measures» can be taken in the fight against racism.

I write from Denver, and I'm passionate about de-freakifying open adoption and ending discrimination against adoptees.

Concerns about the Equality Bill - amendments to which the House of Lords has begun to consider this week - have been growing in recent months and culminated on Monday in the publication of a timely book to which I have written the foreword, A Little Bit Against Discrimination?

Outrage at Tory MP Philip Davies» comments about «feminists zealots» happy with discrimination against men

But he refused Sunday to answer at least six yes - or - no questions about whether the measure legalizes discrimination against gays and lesbians.

This unilateral announcement is not a «resolution» — it's discrimination against charter children, whose families were never consulted about these locations.»

About a week later, Mendez - Santiago's former secretary filed suit against him, charging the former commissioner with sexual harassment and discrimination.

For example, when asked on Monday about whether Trump would preserve an Obama - era executive order that bars discrimination against gays working for federal contractors, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said he didn't know.

«Today is the first day of the end of discrimination against lesbian women and gay men and I say, Yay, it's about time.»

Man in a Shed, yes it seems like a no brainer to me, and its an issue he can get angry about Labour's discrimination against English people, wrong footing Labour and putting them on the back foot with the biggest electoral group, and as you rightly point out, its not a policy Brown can pinch.

The settlement was about eHarmony violating the New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination and not allowing a gay / same - sex matching service.

The recent settlement about eHarmony violating the New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination has only fuelled the flames.

Released at the height of the African - American struggle against Jim Crow segregation, the book played a pivotal role in raising the country's awareness of racism while simultaneously serving to shame the South about its disgraceful legacy of lynching, oppression and discrimination.

This is a fight about the perspective from which our universal stories emerge,» notes Maria Giese, a film director who in 2015 instigated an industry - wide federal investigation into discrimination against female directors in Hollywood.

Lionsgate is releasing Peter Sollett's «Freeheld» (October 2); the film co-starring Julianne Moore is based on HBO's 2008 Oscar - winning documentary short about same - sex partners fighting against discrimination.

Today, in spite of all the work about it, the concern on all types of violence and discrimination against women continues to be a major issue and concern, to the point that in many countries there are offices to monitor them as femicides.

The federal education space is currently engrossed in debates about the merits of the Department of Education46 and the need for federal protections against discrimination in schools.47 This is a departure from last year's substantive conversations around refining state accountability systems, modernizing the teaching profession, and lowering college tuition.

However, these amendments, leftover relics of discrimination from more than 100 years ago when a surge of Catholic immigrants caused some to worry about their religious influence in what was then Protestant public schools, continue to be used by opponents of school choice as whips against policymakers who have no interest in inviting litigation.

«Questions still remain, for example, about whether Mrs. DeVos will support the previous Department of Education's guidance clarifying that federal Title IX prohibits discrimination against transgender and gender non-confirming students.»

Lusher Charter School, Samuel J. Green Charter School in the Freret neighborhood and KIPP Believe College Prep in Carrollton are all mentioned in the article about a discrimination lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center against the state.

Although typically brought up in discussions about unequal opportunities in women's athletics, the law also requires that schools have a Title IX coordinator to handle complaints and address concerns if related issues arise, and that they have policies in place to combat sexual harassment as well as discrimination against pregnant students.

Interesting Link: Information about American hate groups at the Anti-Defamation League website, whose charter is to «secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against, and ridicule of, any sect or body of citizens.»

While consumer advocates hope more information will help regulators protect mortgage borrowers against discrimination, mortgage lenders are worried about protecting their privacy.

In fact, when arguing against breed discrimination, heartwarming stories about pets or even the human - animal bond usually carry little, if any, persuasive value.

This week, Attorney General of the State of Hawaii Douglas Chin talks about the travel ban and discrimination against Muslims.

Washington, DC About Blog The National Center for Transgender Equality is a national social justice organization devoted to ending discrimination and violence against transgender people through education and advocacy on national issues of importance to transgender people.

In the Feature sector, Jenkins Johnson Gallery is presenting a solo presentation of civil rights - era photographs by Gordon Parks, which he described as «a weapon against all the things I dislike about America — poverty, racism, discrimination.»

On October 26, 2011, Stephen Reed is giving a presentation about appearing before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) as part of an MCLE seminar titled «On Your Feet at the MCAD.»

Come hear about a hard - fought battle two CELA attorneys waged against the City of San Jose and two former fire chiefs, in a gender discrimination lawsuit in Santa Clara Superior Court.