Sentences with phrase «addressing racial discrimination»

While it is not my statutory responsibility to monitor the implementation of the RDA (this responsibility resides with the Race Discrimination Commissioner), [53] I have a particular interest in addressing racial discrimination as it affects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Not that it's easy, given the real conundrum involved in addressing racial discrimination without making our schools less safe or jumping to dubious conclusions from raw data on student suspensions.

The Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, was formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to involve the private bar in providing legal services to address racial discrimination.

However, the US Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was enacted to address racial discrimination, also covered employment and prohibited discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sex.

This policy had to address racial discrimination in its many forms, so the policy guidance on racial profiling was necessarily short in length and high level.

The implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in the period 1992 - 1998, and the development of a range of institutions, legislation, policies and programs to address racial discrimination (para 4);

As I noted at the outset of this chapter, the Committee praised a number of efforts by the Australian government to address racial discrimination in accordance with the Convention.

Not exact matches

What if we articulated a commitment to address issues of racial discrimination and oppression openly and publicly?

They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination, evangelicals themselves seem to be preserving America's racial chasm.»

New York Times Magazine editor Tough profiles an ambitious effort to simultaneously address the seemingly eternal societal problems of poverty, class stratification, educational underachievement and racial discrimination.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

[96] During his first State of the State address in January 1963, Romney declared that «Michigan's most urgent human rights problem is racial discrimination — in housing, public accommodations, education, administration of justice, and employment.»

Our ultimate aim is to catalyze substantially greater impacts on the lives of young children whose needs are not addressed adequately by existing programs, with a strong emphasis on those who face the cumulative burdens of economic hardship, limited parent education, racial or ethnic discrimination, and other sources of structural inequity.

Midway through President Clinton's term, his Administration lacks a clear agenda for addressing racial segregation and racial discrimination in schools, civil - rights experts and political analysts say.

A recent memo accuses educators of racial discrimination while failing, with a few exceptions, to address the real problems.

Bradley talks about the role of the nation's 10 equity assistance centers, including the IDRA - directed South Central Collaborative for Equity, in addressing these civil rights issues (gender discrimination, sexual abuse, racial hostility, etc.) and working to make schools work for all learners.

In works like these, Breitz, who was born in Johannesburg in 1972, addresses themes of racial discrimination, sexism, and the exotic

A liberal Texas activist group asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to hold Hurricane Harvey relief funds and other grant monies from Houston until the City fully addresses policies that promote «racial discrimination and perpetuation of segregation.»

Child welfare agencies should look at disproportionality data and investigate whether it can be attributed to systemic racial discrimination, and address those root causes.

Where elements of systemic racial discrimination does exist, recommendation 25 provides concrete steps in which to address it:

Create a special team of professional regulation members to address complaints of racial discrimination.

For example, the BC Court of Appeal found that while a disciplinary panel of the BC Veterinary Medical Association (now the College of Veterinarians of BC) had jurisdiction to address asserted racial discrimination by the panel as a matter of bias, the tribunal could decline to address that issue as it was already before the Human Rights Tribunal.

The Racial Equity Committee monitors and provides advice about programs that address issues of racism and discrimination in the legal profession and in relation to access to justice, including programs to increase access to the legal profession.

In our efforts to address and prevent racial profiling and other prohibited forms of discrimination, we have also since taken on other human rights organizational change project partnerships with the Windsor Police Service and Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.

The policy will also seek to support and enable Ontario organizations, legal decision - makers and affected community members to better identify, assess, address and prevent racial profiling as a prohibited form of discrimination under the Ontario Human Rights Code.

Despite human rights legislation and proactive measures to address racism or racial discrimination, it is still embedded in our institutions, organizations and ways of thinking.

In my Social Justice Report 2007 I committed to report on «the actions taken by the government to address the concerns identified in this report relating to non-compliance with Australia's human rights obligations and the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth)(«Race Discrimination Act» / «RDA»).

In my view General Recommendation XIV makes it clear that where differential treatment on the basis of race addresses the disadvantage suffered by a particular racial group as a result of discriminatory practices or where the cultural identity of a particular racial group is recognised and protected by differential treatment, such beneficial measures will not constitute discrimination within the Convention.

The way in which the NTA addresses legislative and executive acts that took place before the NTA's enactment, is to either confirm their validity and extinguishing effect under the confirmation provisions, or validate their extinguishing effect (for acts otherwise invalid because of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cwlth)(«RDA»)-RRB- under the validation provisions.

Although there is currently limited empirical evidence to address the specific effects of racial discrimination in the child welfare system, we can draw from the literature that has documented discriminatory practices in multiple social institutions.

The issue of the Racial Discrimination Act will feature in today's Congress Lowitja proceedings, with keynote addresses from Racial Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane and Langton.

I'm confident that this campaign will have an impact, but clearly one campaign can not achieve everything that is needed to address the effects of racial discrimination on the mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The Framework will address some, but not all, of the weaknesses in Australia's human rights protection system, such as guaranteed protection against racial discrimination.

In 1999, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination urged Australia to reconsider its attempt at that time to abolish the Social Justice Commissioner position to ensure that the absence of a specialist commissioner does not adversely affect the ability of the Commission to address in an adequate manner the full range of issues regarding indigenous peoples that warrant attention given the continuing political, economic and social marginalization faced by the indigenous community of Australia (UN Doc: A / 54/18, para. 21 (2)-RRB-.

In Cabrera v. Jakabovitz, the Second Circuit addressed alleged Fair Housing Act violations based on racial discrimination.

In Jancik v. HUD, the Seventh Circuit addressed alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act based on racial and family status discrimination.