Sentences with phrase «meant racial discrimination»

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’42 Indeed, women from all three continents, Africa, Asia and Latin America, say that «In the person and praxis of Jesus Christ, women of the three continents find the grounds of our liberation from all discrimination: sexual, racial, social, economic, political and religious... Christology is integrally linked with action on behalf of social justice and the defense of each person's right to life and to a more humane life.43 This means that Christology is about apartheid, sexual exploitation, poverty and oppression.

The meaning of scripture can be twisted to serve the purposes of men so we must do everything that we can to ensure that the «Good Words» that are taught are the actual words of Yehoshua rather than the selected words of Paul and the Old Testament that form the basis of discrimination against women, racial minorities, homosexuals, and «different» religions (including atheism).

JUST because people USED the Bible to support racial and gender discrimination does nOT mean the BIBLE ITSELf supported it... racial and gender discrimination is nOT supported by the Bible...

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.»

As Green (2004) explains, «[b] ecause the courts no longer legitimize race - conscious remedies as a means of correcting societal discrimination, a new camp surfaces and argues that within the context of higher education, racial diversity is important to educational excellence and a democratic society» (379).

In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and discrimination through civil disobedience and other nonviolent means.

This disparity is rooted in structural, race - based disadvantages, including, according to Marshall Steinbaum's research, «segregation within higher education, which relegates minority students to the worst - performing institutions, discrimination in both credit and labor markets, and the underlying racial wealth gap that means black and Hispanic students have a much smaller cushion of family wealth to fall back on, both to finance higher education in the first place and also should any difficulty with debt repayment arise.»

Given that «equality» can mean many different things, and that its pursuit is often ideologically driven, this is not merely about ridding the profession of any lingering racial discrimination — a goal with which we think reasonable people would not take issue.

The breach of CFREU, art 47 means that relevant provisions of the SIA do not apply to their claims based on EU law such that the Claimants can litigate these claims in the employment tribunal (i.e. claims of unlawful race discrimination, harassment on racial grounds and breaches of working time regulations).

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

However, almost half of Perth's current population has been accommodated since the Racial Discrimination Act came into effect.61 This may mean a high proportion of extinguishing acts in the Perth metropolitan area are acts that must be compensated.

It will be interesting to know if mainstream health organisations have also made such a submission, given the growing body of evidence about the impact of racism on health which has led some experts to say that means we need to look at toughening racial discrimination laws, not weakening them.

The Human Rights Committee, which oversees implementation of the ICCPR, and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, have adopted a substantive equality approach to the meaning of non-discrimination.

Of particular note in this regard is the jurisprudence and general comments of the Human Rights Committee (HRC) on the content and scope of Article 27 of the ICCPR, the meaning of equality and non-discrimination in Articles 2 and 26 of the Covenant, and the application of Article 1 of the Covenant to Indigenous peoples; and various decisions, concluding observations and General Recommendations (particularly General Recommendation 26 on Indigenous Peoples)(xviii) of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).

This dialogue has occurred between the Australian government and and two UN treaty committees, on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (August 1999 and March 2000) and the Human Rights Committee (HRC)(July 2000); between Indigenous non-government organizations and UN committees on each of these occasions; between the government and Indigenous and non-Indigenous representatives before the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fund (PJC) in February and March 2000; and, at a broader level, among Australian citizens and a range of institutions, as part of a continuing debate about the meaning of reconciliation.

Over half of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who experience racial discrimination report feelings of psychological distress, meaning they can go on to develop anxiety and depression.1 There is also a «dose» effect: the risk of high or very high levels of psychological distress increases as the volume of racism increases.3

They also provide some important insights into the meaning of discrimination as it responds to the specific issues raised by the recognition of native title, a proprietary interest which is inherent to a particular racial group.

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

The fact that we don't have entrenched protections for non-discrimination in our Constitution — even though we have them in ordinary statute laws - has meant that our Government can suspend the Racial Discrimination Act.

Due to this continued inequality the Committee has emphasised that the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination places obligations on nations to take all appropriate means to combat and eliminate discrimination against Indigenous peoples, and has called Discrimination places obligations on nations to take all appropriate means to combat and eliminate discrimination against Indigenous peoples, and has called discrimination against Indigenous peoples, and has called on nations to:

[5] See, for example Theodor Meron, «The Meaning and Reach of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination» (1985) 79 Am J. Int» l Law 283, 305; Natan Lerner, The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1980), 32; Natan Lerner, Group Rights and Discrimination in International Law (2nd ed, 2003), 182.

(Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, General Recommendation 32 - The meaning and scope of special measures in the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (2009), par 8.

Third, in my submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Native Title inquiry into CERD and the Native Title Amendment Act 1998, I argue that the government's arguments about a margin of appreciation misunderstand the scope of the Committee's interpretation of the meaning of racial discrimination.

[19] The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, («CERD Committee») which assists in monitoring and implementing ICERD, has interpreted this to mean that Indigenous peoples have equal rights to effective participation in public life and that no decisions directly relating to their rights and interests should be taken without their informed consent.

The Human Rights Committee, which oversees implementation of the ICCPR, and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (51), have adopted a substantive equality approach to the meaning of non-discrimination.

(Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, General Comment 32 - The meaning and scope of special measures in the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (2009), pars 16 - 18.

This is also consistent with the approach adopted by the CERD Committee for ICERD in General Recommendations 14, 30 and 32 (Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, General Recommendation 32 - The meaning and scope of special measures in the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (2009), par 8.

«This ruling recognizes the stark reality that housing discrimination, regardless of intent, persists for many Americans,» Dennis Parker, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Racial Justice Program, said in a statement reacting to the decision, «This decision retains the essential protections of the Fair Housing Act, meaning the law will continue to serve as an important tool in rooting out pernicious forms of racial segregation and discrimination.&Racial Justice Program, said in a statement reacting to the decision, «This decision retains the essential protections of the Fair Housing Act, meaning the law will continue to serve as an important tool in rooting out pernicious forms of racial segregation and discrimination.&racial segregation and discrimination.»