Sentences with phrase «racial discrimination in»

The law banned racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing, block busting (in which real estate agents move a black family into a white neighborhood and use it to frighten white homeowners into selling, turning the neighborhood from white to black), racial steering (in which real estate agents steer home seekers to racially distinct neighborhoods), and intimidation and coercion.

The FBI has released nearly 400 pages of records on an investigation the bureau conducted in the 1970s into alleged racial discrimination in the rental of apartments from President Donald Trump's real estate company.

Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts.

By Aaron Glantz and Emmanuel Martinez Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts.

The Los Angeles Times endorsed the effort to make racial discrimination in housing legal again in California.

In the Social Justice Commissioner's view, based on these principles and the interpretation of them in Australian courts, Aboriginal Customary Law could be recognised as a legitimate differentiation of treatment that does not offend the prohibition of racial discrimination in sections 9 or 10 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth).

In interpreting the definition of racial discrimination in Article 1.1 of the Convention, the CERD has stated that:

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.

As I noted at the outset of this chapter, the Committee praised a number of efforts by the Australian government to address racial discrimination in accordance with the Convention.

States Parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law.

The definition of racial discrimination in the Convention is integrally linked to the concept of equality before the law.

Section 8 (1) of the Act exempts special measures that meet the requirements of Article 1 (4) of the Convention from the prohibition of racial discrimination in section 9 of the Act.

CERD clearly incorporates this, with the definition of racial discrimination in Article 1.1 including discrimination «in purpose or effect».

In compliance with the fundamental obligations laid down in article 2 of this Convention, States Parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of the following rights:

The act prohibits all forms of racial discrimination in all Australian jurisdictions, Federal, State and Territorial and provides a legislative framework for making complaints regarding racial discrimination.

The CERD Committee found that the 1998 amendments to the Native Title Act (including the restrictions on the right to negotiate) breached the International Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination in that they failed to ensure the «effective participation» of Indigenous people [Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Decision (2) 54 on Australia - Concluding observations / comments, 18 March 1999.

The next chapter examines Australia's appearance before the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in March 2000, which provides a guide to Australia's human rights performance on Indigenous issues.

A / 54/18, para 9 where the absence of meaningful participation in the amendment process preceding the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 (Cth) was cited by the CERD Committee as inconsistent with article 5 (c) of CERD which prohibits racial discrimination in relation to the right of political participation.

But what I want to make clear is that one of the most essential aspects of protecting the rights of Indigenous children is to secure Indigenous cultural and land rights and remove racial discrimination in our nation.

[120] In essence, the provisions stated that all of the measures introduced through the legislation were to be characterised as «beneficial» and therefore exempt from the prohibition of racial discrimination in Part II of the RDA.

In a recent Victorian study, Mental health impacts of racial discrimination in Victorian Aboriginal communities: the Localities Embracing and Accepting Diversity (LEAD) Experiences of Racism Survey, by The Lowitja Institute, an overwhelming majority (97 per cent) of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people surveyed experienced racism multiple times.

«Invisible Discriminator» advertising campaign, which showed increased awareness of racial discrimination in people who had seen the ads.

Mental health impacts of racial discrimination in Victorian Aboriginal communities: the Localities Embracing and Accepting Diversity (LEAD) Experiences of Racisim Survey.

VicHealth: Mental health impacts of racial discrimination in Victorian Aboriginal communities

In the Social Justice Commissioner's view, Aboriginal Customary Law could be recognised as a legitimate differentiation of treatment that does not offend the prohibition of racial discrimination in international law or its domestic implementation in Australia through sections 9 or 10 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth).

We also need to eliminate racial discrimination in the Constitution — such as the section that still says people can be banned from voting based on race.

The role of racial discrimination in the economic value of education among urban, low - income Latina / o youth: Ethnic identity and gender as moderators, American Journal of Community Psychology, 56, 1 - 11.

Although there is currently limited empirical evidence to address the specific effects of racial discrimination in the child welfare system, we can draw from the literature that has documented discriminatory practices in multiple social institutions.

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the body which monitors the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 40 calls upon state parties to the Convention to eliminate racial discrimination in relation to property rights through the return of, or compensation for, land taken from indigenous peoples.

[P] arties to ILUAs and those drafting precedent agreements should be aware of these issues [including racial discrimination in the NTA's enforcement of ILUAs] and incorporate terms that resolve uncertainty and the need for a court to determine questions».

This is consistent with the definition of racial discrimination in Article 1 of the Convention referring to a distinction on the basis of race «which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights.»

The child welfare literature is replete with discussions of how racial discrimination in the larger society has affected African - American and other children of color (e.g. Everett, Chipungu & Leashore, 1993; Pinderhughes, 1991; Gibbs, 1993; Billingsley & Giovannoni, 1972).

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

Its main function was to administer a network of voluntary committees trying to conciliate complaints of racial discrimination in public services.

The culmination of her work on racial discrimination in Canadian legal history, Colour - Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900 - 1950, was awarded the noted 2002 Joseph Brandt Award.

Assume that the complainant has sufficient proof of racial discrimination in their workplace, and wishes to have it investigated.

This policy had to address racial discrimination in its many forms, so the policy guidance on racial profiling was necessarily short in length and high level.

Racial discrimination in the workplace is an insidious anachronism that unfortunately still exists.

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.

Serve as lead trial counsel for employer in federal class action related to an industrial site where workers claim racial discrimination in employment, involving hundreds of employees.

So it's no wonder that its lawyers at Goodwin Procter have vigorously opposed a motion to allow cameras in a federal courtroom in Massachusetts where the company and various entities have been sued for racial discrimination in connection to its mortgage products.

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.

The Guerrilla Girls, a group of artists who use splashy design to offer their opinions on gender and racial discrimination in the art world, gave us their take on museums in Washington.

Perhaps the most compelling and historically significant inclusion is Pindell's video, in which the artist plays two parts: herself, a black woman describing instances of racial discrimination in her life, and the titular free, white, and 21 - year - old woman who disbelieves and admonishes her.

The Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, where «The Color Line,» a major exhibition of art by African American artists and historical documents and publications is on view, has removed a children's hand out booklet after criticism about its reference to the «pleasant lives» of some slaves and claim that racial discrimination in the United States ended with the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

(From the Guerrilla Girls, anonymous activists exposing sexual and racial discrimination in art.)

Their leadership, foregrounding the issue of racial discrimination in the entertainment industry, prompted Harlem Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D - N.Y.) to hold Congressional hearings on the subject.

Slavery, racial segregation, employment discrimination are just three example of thousands of the manifestations of racial discrimination in our society.

...» 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.

First, Congress, by passing Title VII as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1866, has made clear its hostility to racial discrimination in employment.