Sentences with phrase «against race discrimination»

The role for governments is to remove existing structural and systemic impediments to healthy relationships within our communities and reinforce protections against race discrimination.

The ease with which the obligations under the Race Discrimination Act have been set aside highlights the weak status of protections against race discrimination in the Australian legal system.

Governments need to remove existing structural and systemic impediments to healthy relationships within our communities and reinforce protections against race discrimination.

While we have made great strides with regard to civil rights and laws to protect against race discrimination in the workplace, the reality is that racial harassment is still prevalent.

We can also protect employees who have been wrongfully retaliated against because they spoke up against race discrimination.

Not exact matches

It is the policy of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to provide equal opportunity in employment throughout the corporation for all qualified applicants and employees without discrimination against any person because of a person's race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex / gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions and breast feeding), national origin, ancestry, gender identity, gender expression, legally - protected medical condition, physical or mental disability, age, military or veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.

«ACT for America has never, and will never, tolerate any bias, discrimination, or violence against anyone, based on their religion, gender, race, or political persuasion,» Act for America told Newsweek in a statement.

prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

It has severely limited affirmative action as a remedy for past discrimination against minorities, even though the post-Civil War Congress that passed the Fourteenth Amendment also enacted race - targeted benefits for black soldiers, schools and relief agencies.

Seemingly, despite progress made against discrimination / prejudice against external differences (colour / race / gender), it is still perfectly acceptable in some places to discriminate against internal differences (beliefs / ideology / worldview / sexual orientation etc.) and to do so with such vehemence as to rival some of those historical examples you cited.

9 A vivid illustration of the problem here raised for all moral judgments is given in the experience of a lecturer who asserted to a group of Southern people that no one could practice discrimination against another race and be a Christian.

There is no acknowledgment that, in the view of many, a discrimination - free society is one that does not discriminate for or against people on the basis of their race or gender, as quotas certainly do.

«Vistaprint in no way condones - and does not tolerate - discrimination against any of our customers based on their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation.»

The primitive social development of American humanity reveals that our progress away from discrimination against one's race or color has hardly moved forward at all.

Therefore, BWI does not condone silencing, tone policing, or otherwise oppressing marginalized groups, nor does BWI discriminate or permit discrimination by any member of its community against any individual on the basis of age, citizenship status, class, color, disability, gender expression, gender identity, marital status, national origin, parental status, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.

«I vividly remember her work to break the cycle of violence against women and to stop discrimination based on race, income, religion, ability, region, gender identity, or genetic information.»

As Avi pointed out the Supreme Court has ruled against discrimination based on race but racial discrimination is protected by federal law and would have been illegal even outside of the primaries.

Poloncarz also said he expects to gain more headway with his proposed Fair Housing Law, which adds to existing state and federal anti-discrimination legislation to prohibit housing discrimination based on sources of income, which are frequently cited as a pretext for discriminating against prospective tenants and buyers based on race, marital status and disabilities.

Three days later, Heseltine was one of around two dozen Conservative MPs who defied the whip to abstain rather than vote against the second reading of the 1968 Race Relations Bill (which banned racial discrimination).

The U.S. Department of Justice, for instance, announced Wednesday that it will be sending inspectors to monitor voting in the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan, following reports of discrimination against Spanish - speaking voters during the Rangel - Espaillat race.

New Yorkers are protected against discrimination in employment, housing, and public services based on race, creed, age, citizenship status, gender, marital status, and sexual orientation, among other qualities.

He should learn how to abide by our laws that reject employment discrimination against people because of sex, color, race nationality, religion, sexual preference, etc..

She was the first member of Congress to introduce gay rights legislation, her approach being a full - scale incorporation of sexual orientation into the protections afforded by the 1964 Civil Rights Act against discrimination based on race, religion, sex, and other categories.

A former Ramapo police officer has filed a lawsuit against the town claiming race and gender discrimination.

Malliotakis argues that her critics take her votes out of context, such as her vote against a 2011 bill to bar discrimination based on race, gender, or national origin, which she said she opposed because it is redundant to existing state and federal law.

In this respect, the law shall prohibit any discrimination and guarantee to all persons equal and effective protection against discrimination on any ground such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

Under the Dear Colleague letter, ED has virtually unlimited discretion in deciding, for example, whether «[s] elective enforcement of a facially neutral policy against students of one race is also prohibited intentional discrimination.»

In a «Dear Colleague» letter released last year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (ED) issued guidance for schools on avoiding discrimination against students on the basis of race when administering school disciplinary policies, and warned that if minority students are subject to disciplinary actions at a higher rate than other students, schools could be faulted for civil - rights violations.

The package included a «Dear Colleague» letter, issued jointly by DOE and DOJ, warning against intentional racial discrimination but also stating that schools unlawfully discriminate even «if a policy is neutral on its face — meaning that the policy itself does not mention race — and is administered in an evenhanded manner but has a disparate impact, i.e., a disproportionate and unjustified effect on students of a particular race.»

Absent attention at the state and local level, we will have far more OCR complaints (e.g., the ACLU filed a complaint against charter schools in Delaware alleging discrimination by race, income and disability on December 5th) stemming from tacit acceptance of lack of access.

The Department of Transportation Civil Rights Offices are here to help eliminate, prevent, reduce, and remedy unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, and sexual orientation against beneficiaries and employees of the Department of Transportation.

Implementing equal opportunity laws and policies to prevent discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, and disability status, as well as protecting individuals against reprisal / retaliation for filing a charge of discrimination, participating in an investigation into alleged discriminatory practices, or opposing discriminatory practices

42 USC 2000d, Federally Assisted Programs Prohibition against exclusion from participation in, denial of benefits of, and discrimination under federally assisted programs on ground of race, color, or national origin.

EEO requirements protect against discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

Implementing equal opportunity laws and policies to prevent workplace discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, and disability status, as well as protecting individuals against reprisal / retaliation for filing a charge of workplace discrimination, participating in an investigation into alleged discriminatory practices, or opposing discriminatory practices.

Discrimination against Chinese is based not only on their race but also on religious ethnicity.

The U.S. Fair Housing Act of 1968 and its amendments provide protection against discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender, disability and familial status, but in an announcement on July 2 HUD Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, John Trasvina noted «Our job to prevent and control housing discrimination is not complete until we address 21st Century issues.»

In Ontario, the Human Rights Code protects the «right to equal treatment with respect to employment without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status or disability» and also protects against discrimination based on the intersection of multiple of these grounds.

This law forbids discrimination against an applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status or age.

Seattle Area Feline Rescue prohibits discrimination against its employees, volunteers, applicants for employment, and customers or other business associates on the basis of a person's race, religion, creed, color, sex, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, military or veteran status, any other characteristic protected by federal and applicable state laws.

It is the policy of IVHS not to engage in discrimination against or harassment of any person employed or seeking employment with the Inland Valley Humane Society on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, ancestry, marital status, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, or status as a covered veteran.

The Pennsylvania State University prohibits discrimination and harassment against any person because of age, ancestry, color, disability or handicap, national origin, race, religious creed, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

The Cooper Union has established separate policies, published elsewhere, to adjudicate claims of academic dishonesty, sexual and relationship violence, and claims of discrimination or harassment against a protected class (e.g., race, sex, gender expression and identity, and disability).

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and as such do not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.

Workplace discrimination occurs when an individual is unfavorably discriminated against because of one or more factors, such as race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, or ethnicity.

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Thompsons NI has a long history of representing workers who have been discriminated against on the grounds of religion or political opinion, as well as disability, gender, race, age and sexual orientation discrimination claims.

While federal law does not specifically prohibit discrimination based on criminal convictions or arrests, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued a policy statement indicating that an employer's use of criminal history information in making employment decisions may violate the federal prohibition against discrimination based on race or national origin.

You already know about the class action race discrimination lawsuit filed in April 2012 against ABC's The Bachelor, which complains that neither The Bachelor nor The Bachelorette has ever «featured a single person of color.»

The committee's proposal «moves beyond the comment to craft a distinct rule within the black letter of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct prohibiting lawyers from engaging in harassment and knowing discrimination in conduct related to the practice of law» against people on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or socioeconomic status.