Sentences with phrase «against racial discrimination in»

Related to how the Commonwealth government ensures compliance of the states and territories with international obligations is the issue of the level of protection against racial discrimination in Australian law.

The Committee recommends to the State party that it work towards the inclusion of an entrenched guarantee against racial discrimination in its domestic law.

...» Secondly, Title VII itself, especially through Section 704 (a)-- as the circuit court's opinion in Emporium Capwell noted — specifically protects the right to protest against racial discrimination in employment by protecting employee protests from employer retaliation.

It also warned schools against racial discrimination in discipline.

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The current furor, she told me in a recent e-mail, «distracts from real issues of class injustice, racial oppression, and continued discrimination and violence against women, Muslim and non-Muslim.»

An investigation by the Department of Justice has found that the Ferguson police department engaged in a years - long pattern of racial discrimination against members of the black community, who of...

And they answered the judiciary and said, We will not mention your decisions against racial segregation or discrimination in our diatribes in First Things.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

It puts beyond doubt the position that, even though there may be a religious motivation for doing so, discrimination against children in admissions on racial grounds is illegal under any circumstances.

In 2005, the state attorney general's office, then under Eliot Spitzer, filed a federal lawsuit against Macy's that claimed racial discrimination of black and Hispanic customers.

Despite spending all night shivering in the cold in the station's waiting room, Gandhi decided to stay in South Africa and fight the racial discrimination taking place against Indians.

decided to stay in South Africa and fight the racial discrimination taking place against Indians.

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.»

In that study, both black and white Americans believed that racial animosity towards blacks had fallen from the 1950s to the 2000s, but whites startlingly saw racial animosity against themselves as having simultaneously risen to the point where there was more discrimination against them than against blacks.

In Brown v. Board, the judicial and military might of the federal government was used to prevent racial discrimination against minority students.

Ms Crandall realized that public schooling was an important engine in the fight against racial discrimination.

The term «colorism,» first coined in a 1982 essay by Alice Walker, describes prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically amongst people of the same ethnic or racial group.

Although the federal labor policy contained in Taft - Hartley is not to be ignored, the paramount concern must be with the public policy against racial discrimination which is reflected in civil rights legislation and in the Court's New Negro Alliance decision, which immunized racial - labor disputes from injunctions under NorrisLa Guardia long before the advent of civil rights legislation»...

has practiced, sponsored and supported racial discrimination through attacks against, and mass - expulsion of, ethnic Georgians, as well as other ethnic groups, in the South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions of the Republic of Georgia.

Securing a preliminary injunction on behalf of the City of Philadelphia against another governmental agency from carrying out discriminatory elements of a fare plan and the denial of preliminary injunction in a civil rights suit, which was dismissed with prejudice, alleging racial discrimination in the implementation of certain regulations of the Pennsylvania Liquor Code.

According to Sunstein, it is not accidental that current protections against racial discrimination are a product of the 1950s; expansive protections of religious liberty came out of the 1960s; the ban on sex discrimination in the 1970s; and sharp constraints on affirmative action in the 1990s and 2000s.

A former Howrey associate has filed a $ 30 million lawsuit against the firm, accusing higher - ups of firing her after she complained about racial discrimination in Howrey's Brussels office, according to The National Law Journal, an Am Law Daily sibling publication.

Legal Feeds Blog Appeal court upholds racial discrimination ruling against Peel law librarian Two black lawyers and an articling student who were asked to show their IDs in a Brampton, Ont., court several years ago were discriminated against based on their race, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled Thursday.

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.

Such a person must be taken to possess knowledge of the local population and its racial dynamics, including the existence in the community of a history of widespread and systemic discrimination against black and aboriginal people, and high profile clashes between the police and the visible minority population over policing issues.

American laws against racial discrimination have been interpreted to mean intentional discrimination, not acts that result in a discriminatory effect.

Two human rights complaints filed by Ottawa police officers against the Ottawa police force alleging racial discrimination were quietly settled in the last year.

In the statement, a representative of India's permanent mission to the UN also recommended that Canada continue its progress in fighting discrimination against Indigenous peoples, work to tackle racial profiling and help promote equal pay for women, among other thingIn the statement, a representative of India's permanent mission to the UN also recommended that Canada continue its progress in fighting discrimination against Indigenous peoples, work to tackle racial profiling and help promote equal pay for women, among other thingin fighting discrimination against Indigenous peoples, work to tackle racial profiling and help promote equal pay for women, among other things.

NEW: This employment law blog by Eric Bachman of Zuckerman Law focuses on promotion discrimination against women and racial minorities in corporate America.

The right to housing is an element within the right to an adequate standard of living and is recognised as central to the realisation of all economic, social and cultural rights.32 The right to adequate housing is also recognized in other international human rights instruments including; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

That, in recognition that existing protections against racial discrimination have been overridden in relation to Indigenous peoples, the Commonwealth Government begin a constitutional process for the removal of section 25 of the Constitution and its replacement with a clause guaranteeing equality before the law and non-discrimination.

The limits of Australia's legal protection against racial discrimination are exposed in two ways:

That means in these 73 communities» people have only limited protection against racial discrimination for the sole reason that they are Indigenous.

The report calls for a commitment to overcoming indigenous disadvantage as an urgent national priority and makes 14 recommendations including negotiation of a national framework agreement (or treaty), an entrenched guarantee against racial discrimination, better accountability and transparency of Governments and processes to ensure more effective participation of Indigenous peoples in the decision - making process.

«Last night, the Senate took a stand against racism, and Reconciliation Australia believes this outcome shows all Australians that their right to be free from racial discrimination remains protected in Australia.»

In this reporting period, the Government signalled its support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples); [5] two United Nations treaty monitoring committees delivered concluding observations on Australia; a complaint against Australia was made to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; and once again, a delegation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people attended the annual session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

A number of the United Nations human rights bodies including the Human Rights Committee, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, [4] and the Committee Against Torture [5] have also highlighted their concern in respect of the mandatory sentencing laws in both Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

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.

The right to adequate housing is contained in a number of international human rights instruments including; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

This was the case for Australia recently in relation to our implementation of the Convention Against Racial Discrimination.

In Australia, protections against discrimination on a number of grounds including race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin, are provided through the Racial Discrimination Act 19discrimination on a number of grounds including race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin, are provided through the Racial Discrimination Act 19Discrimination Act 1973 (Cth)(RDA).

Other legal issues that caused major concerns for property managers, according to the 2011 Institute of Real Estate Management Legal Scan, include debt collection suits, which increased 14 percent since the 2009 survey, and fair housing cases, which grew by 25 percent for racial discrimination and 60 percent for discrimination against the disabled in that two - year period.

A federal court in New York has considered whether a white tenant's Fair Housing lawsuit alleging incidents of racial discrimination by the landlord against visitors to the tenant's apartment could proceed to the jury.