Sentences with phrase «disadvantaged by discrimination»

In the principles, the groups highlight the important and historic role the federal government has played during the 50 years since the ESEA was originally passed in promoting educational opportunity and protecting the rights and interests of students disadvantaged by discrimination, poverty, and other conditions that may limit their educational attainment.

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Previous research has demonstrated that criminal behavior is impacted by genetics, childhood mistreatment, low self - esteem during adolescence, lack of parental support, social and economic disadvantage, and racial discrimination.

This discrimination is exacerbated by transformation policies that give priority to citizen students who come from disadvantaged families.

The John Henryism Hypothesis put forth by Sherman James argues that having «a strong behavioral predisposition to cope actively with psychosocial environmental stressors» interacts with disadvantaged circumstances (like low socioeconomic status, discrimination, and structural inequality) to negatively impact health.

For example, through a policy of «positive discrimination,» the Ministry of Education tried to reduce gaps between various parts of the population by increasing allocations to schools serving disadvantaged students and providing funds for additional instruction.

The Department of Transportation's (DOT) disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) program is an affirmative action program designed to combat discrimination and its continuing effects by providing contracting opportunities on Federally - funded highway, transit, and airport projects for small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.

DOT has the important responsibility of ensuring that firms competing for DOT - assisted contracts for these projects are not disadvantaged by unlawful discrimination.

He is passionate about supporting organizations that help animals most in need, including those at high - risk of euthanasia and animals impacted by medical needs, breed discrimination, behavioral problems, and other disadvantages.

Those purposes include the prevention of arbitrary disadvantage or exclusion based on enumerated grounds, so that individuals deemed to be vulnerable by virtue of a group characteristic can be protected from discrimination.

The AG ruled that this was discrimination by association similar to the discrimination found in the case of Coleman v Attridge Law (the case of a mother with a disabled child who suffered a disadvantage by reason of the child's disability).

They may argue they're disadvantaged by compliance with discrimination laws, but they're not the parties that the laws were intended to protect.

The denial of coverage of a drug that was medically necessary and prescribed to Wayne by a physician was held to meet the standard of «disadvantage» required to make out a case for prima facie discrimination.

In other words, it is the effective competitive disadvantage that results from discrimination, which must be demonstrated by reference to the actual circumstances of the case, including the impact on the costs, income and profitability structures of the affected party — rather than the practice of discrimination considered in abstract — which constitutes the criterion for the existence of an abuse.

This means that associative discrimination also applies to indirect discrimination i.e. in a situation where a neutral practice disadvantages people of a specific ethnic group and a person not of the same ethnicity suffers the same disadvantage by association with that group.

Where any disadvantage experienced by the employee is not demonstrably caused by his or her disability, no «discrimination» exists and no duty to accommodate arises.

At a recent talk at the University of Ottawa by Cynthia Petersen, the Law Society of Upper Canada Discrimination and Harassment Counsel, raised the idea that women who go on maternity leave are severely disadvantaged upon their return, unlike their male counterparts who take similarly long leaves for other personal or professional reasons.

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.

Jesuit Social Services has nearly 40 years of experience working with people in and exiting the prison system and we know of the significant discrimination and disadvantage experienced by many Aboriginal people that too often drives contact with the justice system.

In the present context, the concern about possible racial discrimination is highlighted by the importance of Indigenous rights in land and culture and also the generally disadvantaged situation of Indigenous Australians relative to the wider community.

Factors contributing to our disadvantage are more than phantoms haunting us, they are very much alive today in the form of everyday and structural racism — the discrimination, marginalisation and substantive inequality faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people due to our ethnicity — the colour of our skin, and the view, implicit or explicit, that somehow our relative disadvantage in society is because of our own failure or weakness as individuals, or a result of practicing our culture.

Factors contributing to our disadvantage are more than phantoms haunting us, they are very much alive today in the form of everyday and structural racism - the discrimination, marginalisation and substantive inequality faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people due to our ethnicity — the colour of our skin, and the view, implicit or explicit, that somehow our relative disadvantage in society is because of our own failure or weakness as individuals, or a result of practicing our culture.

The extent of continuing discrimination and disadvantage faced by Indigenous people, and the lack of equality in Australian society that it reflects.

Now I note that you said today that there's been great improvement over a short period of time, and I'm sure there has been, but you know it's interesting to me, and again I will say this because I come from a country myself where there is a disadvantaged community and a lot of government programs et cetera, it's of serious concern the extent of the dramatic inequalities that are still being experienced by these population groups when they represent only, you know, no more than 2 % of the population of a highly developed, industrialised state, and I just, it makes me wonder about things like the effectiveness of the programs, monitoring, benchmarking, what are the standards, is anybody watching this to see whether or not they really are designed to meet the disadvantages that are real in the communities, you know the real history of systemic discrimination, institutional racism?

Indigenous disadvantage is the result of systemic discrimination; - the appropriate benchmark by which to measure progress is one of equality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians;