Sentences with phrase «against a minority group»

«We do not do this lightly,» said Facebook, «but they have repeatedly posted content designed to incite animosity and hatred against minority groups, which disqualifies the Pages from our service.»

Britain First shared posts «designed to incite animosity and hatred against minority groups,» Facebook says.

Can't believe they allow people to make laws against a minority group based on some book that was written by men thousands of years ago (and revised countless times).

Nationally, every state is prohibited from legislating racial discrimination, legislating literacy tests, and other devices historically used to discriminate against minority groups.

«Based upon enrollment numbers, the district is politically competitive and does not discriminate against any minority group.

«I just want to say I believe that Gigi Li did not intentionally discriminate against any minority group,» Mendez said.

In theory, RAIs reduce bias against minority groups in criminal justice decision - making, and are used to inform where prisoners serve their time and when they are released.

In particular, your argumentative essay on affirmative action may open with the definition of affirmative action («a policy or program developed to counter discrimination against minority groups and women in areas such as employment and education»).

And as I said earlier, war and conflict is more likely to arise where we have bad governance, and we have high inequality, and we have discrimination against minority groups and ethnic groups, and we have low educational levels.

«We do not do this lightly, but they have repeatedly posted content designed to incite animosity and hatred against minority groups, which disqualifies the Pages from our service,» Facebook wrote in a blog post Wednesday.

Facebook has banned UK far - right group Britain First, saying the organization repeatedly broke the social network's standards by sharing content «designed to incite animosity and hatred against minority groups.»

Equal protection means that the government can not discriminate against minority groups.

On one side of the dispute is Nita Lake Lodge majority owner and lodge manager Michael Scholz, who in May filed a $ 400,000 civil claim for damages against a minority group of Phase II covenant suite owners.

Not exact matches

Here Sotomayor plays the mentor card: «I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self - segregation; take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don't hide within it.»

In March, United Nations investigators concluded that disinformation campaigns facilitated by Facebook have played a «determining role» in inciting violence against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority ethnic group.

A New York City advocacy group for low - income and minority residents filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase Bank last fall for what it says are illegal and exploitative tactics that have cost the two named plaintiffs thousands of dollars in penalty fees it contends they shouldn't have had to pay.

Housing groups say they were able to create ads that discriminated against mothers, the disabled, and minorities.

Against this backdrop, activist investment firm JCP Investment Management took up a significant minority stake in Fiesta over the past year, and JCP is now spearheading a shareholder group that is pushing for a boardroom shakeup.

ISIS is also responsible for crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing directed at these same groups, and in some cases against Sunni Muslims, Kurds, and other minorities.»

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

Among deprived minority groups, for instance, the gang offers the young male a quick road to personal selfhood and social respect in his own group and even in the larger society that has stacked the deck against him and his peers.

In 2012, an American group called the Center for Constitutional Rights, representing a Ugandan group called Sexual Minorities Uganda, sued Lively in federal court in Massachusetts, where he lives, for crimes against humanity.

In 2012, an American group called the Center for Consti > tutional Rights, representing a Ugandan group called Sexual Minorities Uganda, sued Lively in federal court in Massachusetts, where he lives, for crimes against humanity.

While the executive order notes a particular preference for persecuted religious minorities, other elements of the order work against these groups.

This evening, the US House of Representatives voted unanimously that groups such as ISIS are committing genocide against Christians and other minorities in the Middle East.

CIT said it will submit a complaint to the Equality Commission in Northern Ireland against what it calls «viewpoint discrimination» and refusal of services by Queen's University to those representing a valid ex-gay minority group.

Religion has been used to justify discrimination against Native Americans, African Americans, minority religious groups, woman and interracial couples.

Joe, people have used their religious teachings to justify discrimination against Native Americans, African Americans, minority religious groups, woman and interracial couples.

Lively's work in Uganda led to a lawsuit against him under the Alien Tort Claims Act, filed March 14, 2012, by Se.xual Minorities Uganda, an LGBT rights group in that country, and the Center for Consti.tutional Rights in the U.S..

Since Latinos and African Americans are disproportionately Catholic and evangelical, Opinion 385, in effect, reinforces prejudice and discrimination against these ethnic minority groups.

The «minority «group that was so vehemently against this couple getting married in the church in question should be made to pay for the couple's wedding costs as a form of amends.

I didn't commit those acts, I don't approve of them, and I don't discriminate against members of minority groups.

Bibi's death sentence sparked outrage among human rights groups, who condemned Pakistan's blasphemy law as a source of violence and persecution against religious minorities.

Dan Cathy and the PTB at Chick - fil - a have given millions of dollars to groups that are working to legislate their religious discrimination against a minority.

Equality of all persons is a central and inescapable component of justice, and it deserves special focus because of the world's history of exploitation and violence against women, children, minority groups, and anyone considered as «other.»

At some point, when feuding threatens to dissolve a community, spontaneous and irrational mob violence erupts against some distinctive person or minority in the group.

The prescription is that divisions in the community must be reduced to but one division, the division of all against one common victim or one minority group.

The juror played by Ed Begley is prejudiced against all persons of the boy's minority group.

It seems rather more plausible to me to say that where the Liberal Party failed to recognise its own enlightened self - interest was in failing to do more to hug close the labour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alliance.

Showing growing concern over the rising tide of religious extremism, students suggested a wholesale reform of the Pakistan's history curriculum to eliminate discrimination against minorities and other disadvantaged groups so as to undertake a holistic and long - term effort to eliminate the scourge of intolerance from society.

Indiscriminate violence against minorities as well as other Muslims by extremists groups who abuse the Islamic faith negates every visionary word Jinnah had uttered about the future secular and peaceful destiny of the country on the eve of its creation.

On the other side we have minority Muslim groups who are indulging in a similar religious populism, advocating the fact that «we are more Muslim when we are non-Western» or clearly against the West.

But a group of Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and New York Congressman Jerry Nadler, denounced the Center for Medical Progress, with Nadler called the videos «nothing more than a witch hunt» against Planned Parenthood.

«This is of particular importance when the civil liberties of minority groups are threatened, as they are now by the repressive actions being taken by the Trump administration against LGBT people, women, religious and ethnic minorities, and immigrants.»

After Mr. Avella joined a group of breakaway Democrats that govern the State Senate with the Republican Party, Mr. Crowley pushed Mr. Liu to run against Mr. Avella: it was this primary, in part, that eventually drove the Independent Democratic Conference to agree last month to eventually govern with the mainline Democratic conference, potentially putting the GOP in the minority for 2015.

But opponents, including Democratic lawmakers and civil rights groups, argue that they discriminate against minorities and lead to voter suppression.

Speaking in support of Li, he said, «we're talking about someone from a minority group and I see no reason that person would turn around and willfully discriminate against someone (else).»

However, the authors said that donor countries should ensure that vulnerable populations in middle - income countries, such as ethnic minorities who suffer discrimination, refugees and people who inject drugs, continue to get support, since it may be difficult for many countries to withstand the political pressures against helping stigmatized groups.

«There were only a handful of studies for each of the 19 instruments, and very few looked at anything that could give us insight into potential bias against racial or minority groups.»

And are any of them biased against African Americans or other minority groups?