Sentences with phrase «eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation»

Both outlined the importance of their separate pieces of legislation, which would eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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He has focused his work, including two recent amendments — one to recruit, and the other to memorialize lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender members who have served honorably and with distinction in the Armed Forces — as well as to eliminate all forms of discrimination based on color, race, religion, gender, sex, creed, disability, sexual orientation or national origin.»

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.

One of the outcomes of the civil rights movement is laws aimed at eliminating unfair practices in the workplace, including discrimination based on race, religion, gender and, more recently, sexual orientation.

According to British Columbia Premier John Horgan, the purpose of re-instating the Commission is to «create a more - inclusive and just society, where we work together to eliminate inequality and prevent discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.»

Countries around the world are called upon to «adopt appropriate legislative and other measures to prohibit and eliminate discrimination in the public and private spheres on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity» and to «take all necessary legislative, administrative and other measures to prohibit and eliminate prejudicial treatment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity at every stage of the judicial process, in civil and criminal proceedings and all other judicial and administrative proceedings which determine rights and obligations...»