Sentences with phrase «systemic discrimination more»
It's time to start taking the issue of systemic discrimination more seriously, says Pillay.
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But simply dismissing the entirety of the EDI initiatives as lacking legal authority, especially in the context of a study that has said that lawyers are resistant to preventing discrimination in their workplaces and the legal industry in general, only highlights further that the goals of many licensees differ from the broader objectives of creating a more inclusive legal community where systemic discrimination does not occur.
The source of such disparities is deeper and more systemic than explicit racial discrimination.
Law Times offers a recent example of alleged systemic discrimination; the case Law Society of Upper Canada v.... [more]
It is clear that human rights tribunals can not be effective if they are precluded from granting systemic remedies, especially as Canada faces more difficult and complex discrimination that is entrenched in institutional practices.
Most of what has been written is scathing and attacks the irrationality of the proposal, not to mention its blatant systemic discrimination, if not its direct discrimination (it is certainly not a coincidence that Christians do not wear conspicuous religious symbols or clothing, but that Muslims, Jews,... [more]
Due to systemic barriers — like discrimination and harassment in accessing health care, which 28 percent of transgender people say they have experienced — LGBTQ people are more likely than non-LGBTQ people to be living in poverty and to be uninsured.
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?