Sentences with phrase «unequal treatment of»

The police play a crucial role in protection, prevention, and investigation; yet, issues relating to unequal treatment of Aboriginal women by Canadian police forces remain.

Contemporaneously with making her will, the testator wrote a separate letter purporting to explain the unequal treatment of her children, and in particular the disinheritance of her daughter.

The Senate's unanimous support of Byrd - Hagel and the unequal treatment of developing and developed countries in the FCCC is undoubtedly one of the reasons President Barrack Obama has not submitted the Paris Agreement to the Senate for approval.

These works are historicized through their presentation at the Hammer as elsewhere, but the pressures of parenthood (including scarce time and insufficient support structures) that Mary Kelly documents, and the unequal treatment of men and women in creative professions that Dara Birnbaum confronts, remain very present concerns for a majority of viewers.These realities were articulated at the panel discussion yet go unremarked within the exhibition itself.

I'm a bit concerned about Greece because I hear of unequal treatment of people of color.

Research by University of Lethbridge sociologist Reginald Bibby clearly shows that teens take equality much more seriously than the generation that came before them, with the percentage who consider the unequal treatment of women to be a serious social issue doubling between 1984 and 2008.

A coach who alleged school district retaliation for his complaints about unequal treatment of his girls» high school basketball team had no right to sue under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a federal appeals court has ruled.

The links between marriage, battery, sexual harassment, rape, prostitution and sexual humiliation in the home, at work, in pornography, in brothels and in the streets, must be made in order to fully grasp the unequal treatment of women by society and thus the law.

In particular, the bulletin deplores what it sees as society's unequal treatment of «street» and «white - collar» crime.

«Stonewall boasts that its stated purpose is to «promote equality,» yet it is ignoring the unequal treatment of LGBT people in this bill.

«While the wage gap is smaller in NYS compared with other states, this year our Department of Labor study will uncover the true reasons for the unequal treatment of women in the workplace and recommend reforms that will right this injustice.

«While the wage gap is smaller in New York state compared with other states, this year our Department of Labor study will uncover the true reasons for the unequal treatment of women in the workplace and recommend reforms that will right this injustice.»

In the DOMA case, a law treating homosexual marriages differently from heterosexual marriages constituted discrimination and unequal treatment of homosexuals and heterosexuals under the law.

Players kneeling or sitting are protesting police brutality and the unequal treatment of people of color in the United States.

As Eisgruber and Sager admit, however, there are at least two kinds of cases in which it appears that unequal treatment of religion is required, both by the Court's precedents and by our intuitions.

We have repented of our participation in the unequal treatment of women that has pervaded our culture and our church life.

How do we take for granted the unequal treatment of women and the blasphemy of absorbing a woman's life at lesser pay for the convenience of others, moralizing about that kind of institutionalized domestic servitude in the name of God's will?

Or the Sonke Gender Justice movement in South Africa that seeks to teach men how to end unequal treatment of women in their homes and communities.

Not exact matches

MANY women receive unequal treatment when applying for finance, says Challenge Bank head of marketing Melissa Reynolds.

Law is anti-discriminatory in the sense of repairing social disadvantage by the equal treatment of unequals.

In our own country millions of people especially American Negroes are subjected to discrimination and unequal treatment in educational opportunities, in employment, wages and conditions of work, in access to professional and business opportunities, in housing, in transportation, in the administration of justice and even in the right to vote.11

On gift - giving occasions, there's seldom any excuse for unequal treatment, because a missing gift or a gift that is clearly inferior is an overt form of discrimination.

These statements come from a Minister who in the past has attacked secularism as «intolerant and illiberal», has said that religious people contribute more to society than the non-religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

She has also said that religious people contribute more to society than the non religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Hours after the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) filed a lawsuit against the state of New York for what it called the unequal treatment, abuse and denial of rights of farmworkers, the governor said he won't fight it in court.

«The comparisons were based on unequal treatments, without equivalent exposures for equivalent periods of time,» says John Britton, a toxicologist at the University of Nottingham, UK.

However, the review process can not be cleared of unequal gender treatment, he says.

In a 2003 report titled «Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Barriers in Healthcare,» the National Academies» Institute of Medicine detailed the shortcomings in the delivery of health services to minorities.

How much of this difference stems from unequal access to health care, such as regular screening and aggressive treatment, and how much is rooted in biology?

Major reasons include lack of universal access, unequal treatment, and underinvestment in public health and social welfare.

One way of achieving this might be to empower women to confront the state committing such human rights violations against them, through international and domestic forums coupled with the ability to directly challenge men in society who harm them.83 It must be recognized in law that the violation of women sexually and reproductively is a «form of unequal treatment.»

However, as in other areas of life, equity in school education is likely to be associated with equal treatment in some situations (where there is no obvious basis for differential treatment), and unequal treatment in others.

Today, as we celebrate Martin Luther King, jr., I am thinking about the continuing plight of black boys and men in America, especially the issue of unequal treatment by our school system — including with regard to discipline and punishment — and the related reality of our nation maintaining a massive prison complex disproportionately filled with black and brown men.

To the extent that teacher perceptions of students are affected by race or ethnicity, this discretion may lead to unequal treatment.

In addition, the state's timetable for early retirement with reduced benefits is based on years of service, causing unequal treatment.

Losen has done pioneering work on issues of unequal treatment within schools, including the widely cited book, Racial Inequity in Special Education (Losen & Orfield, 2002), and on dropouts.

individuals with disabilities are a discrete and insular minority who have been faced with restrictions and limitations, subjected to a history of purposeful unequal treatment, and relegated to a position of political powerlessness in our society, based on characteristics that are beyond the control of such individuals and resulting from stereotypic assumptions not truly indicative of the individual ability of such individuals to participate in, and contribute to, society;

Major reasons include lack of universal access, unequal treatment, and underinvestment in public health and social welfare.

If the unequal pupil size was down to glaucoma or a toxic agent, then the treatment or removal of the toxin would usually resolve the problem.

The cause of the unequal pupil size would determine the treatment and overall recovery.

Major reasons include lack of universal access, unequal treatment, and underinvestment in public health and social welfare.

Anti-Semitism, prejudice, unequal treatment and the denial of civil rights played a crucial role in the life story of Anne Frank.

Our problem of unequal treatment arises from the fact that subsequently these interpretations are often only applicable to and thus relevant for the Member States, because the Court then «disapplies» the Convention for cases involving EU secondary law and the EU institutions, as you correctly state.

Whether or not the unequal treatment standard extends to functional impairments and degrees of ability would therefore be of critical significance to the disabled, absent a discriminatory effects standard.

The absence of a discriminatory effects standard will make the interpretation of the unequal treatment standard more important.

Distinction amounts to discrimination when the unequal treatment is based on an enumerated ground, i.e. a personal characteristic, such as colour of skin, race or sex, which is immutable (or constructively immutable), and should therefore not be the basis for the assessment or treatment of individuals.

Sophia Moreau, for example, spoke about the three wrongs of discrimination: unequal treatment which is associated with stereotyping and prejudice, oppression and denial of basic goods.

Absent a sustainable finding of unequal treatment, there is no basis for the conclusion of the arbitrator that birth mothers are being treated in a discriminatory way contrary to the Human Rights Code.»

Employment discrimination laws protect you from discrimination in the workplace, including unequal treatment or retaliation on the basis of age, disability, genetic information, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, and sex.

It also showed that 17 per cent of respondents felt they faced unequal or differential treatment related to such personal characteristics.