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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
November 1, 2006
 
Religious discrimination has been on rise recently: FM official
IRNA - Iran
Iran's Foreign Ministry Director General for Legal Affairs Hossein Panahi-Azar said here Monday that discrimination on the basis of religious and ethnic ...
 
South Holland Firm To Pay For Race Discrimination
CBS2 Chicago - Chicago,IL,USA
... than 200 black applicants will receive back pay and 15 of those have new jobs as the result of a settlement reached in a racial discrimination case between the ...
 
Letter: No discrimination in Constitution
Daily News Transcript - Needham,MA,USA
It is wrong to write discrimination into the Constitution. Discrimination of any sort, for whatever reason, does not belong in our Constitution. ...
 
Youth unemployment rising; hundreds of millions working below ...
Islamic Republic News Agency - Tehran,Iran
... over the past decade, more than 300 million others, about 25 percent of the youth population, were living below the two-dollar per day poverty line, and at ...
 
'Charity is not an answer to poverty'
Hamilton Spectator - Ontario, Canada
... Nobel Peace Prize, has successfully demonstrated that lending small amounts to the poorest people to start their own businesses helped eradicate their poverty. ...
 
Nobel peace laureates: UN should work to improve human rights in ...
AsiaNews.it - Italy
... The signatories told the UN leadership that â€*North Korea's oppression of human rights must not be overshadowed by the recent nuclear test. ...
 
Patient's human rights challenge
BBC News - UK
A patient has vowed to use human rights law to challenge proposed cutbacks at a hospital in West Dunbartonshire. Jackie Pollock, 60 ...
 
UN human rights experts reports human rights abuses in Mexican ...
UN News Centre
31 October 2006 – An independent United Nations human rights expert has expressed concern about reports of serious abuses, including murder, perpetrated by a ...
 
FEATURE-World's report on global warming:"Must try harder"
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... Yet some see hope in widening concern that the use of fossil fuels is stoking global warming -- indicated by billions of dollars invested in "clean coal", wind ...
 
Issues of Racial and Economic Justice to Be a Top Priority at the ...
Civilrights.org - Washington,DC,USA
... For example, the Challenging White Supremacy Institute and the People of Color Organizing Institute will work together at the beginning and end of pre ...
 
Faculty gender ratio lags behind national average
Duke Chronicle - Durham,North Carolina,USA
... institutions nationwide. According to the report, Duke's gender equity numbers are lower than the national average. "Over the past ...
 
Tories plan to police pay equity on gender
National Post - Canada
... unhappy about a new government proposal to set up a pay equity enforcement agency that would police private businesses for wage discrimination based on gender. ...
 
Protesters denounce end of EPA program
Seattle Times - United States
... gathered in front of the EPA's regional headquarters in downtown Seattle to denounce the end of the agency's Office of Civil Rights and Environmental Justice. ...
 
Feminism & war conference condemns US imperialism
Workers World - USA
... 19 for a forum that kicked off a conference on â€*Feminism & War. ... We, participants at the 2006 Feminism and War conference ... ...
 
The AAUP complains about "gender inequity"
National Review Online Blogs - New York,NY,USA
The American Association of University Professors recently released a study that complains much about the "inequity" of fewer women than men professors in ...
 
Links between Christianity and homophobia to come under the ...
Ekklesia - UK
A conference next year organised by gay Christians is to examine the link between the Christian faith and homophobia. The event, which ...
 
GOP sleaze machine: Racism, bigotry & homophobia
Capitol Hill Blue - VA,USA
... back against the wall, the Republican sleaze machine went into high gear this past week, appealing to the inherent racism, bigotry and homophobia that lie ...
 
Class Action director talks about Katrina
ASU The Appalachian Online - Boone,NC,USA
Dr. Felice Yeskel, executive director of Class Action, an organization that works to end classism in America, spoke to students about the economic aftermath of ...
 
Leadership Conference Releases Voting Record Detailing 109th ...
Civilrights.org - Washington,DC,USA
As Americans prepare to go to the polls for the midterm elections, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the nation's oldest and largest civil and ...
 
Scientists, American public disagree sharply over global warming
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By Robert S. Boyd. WASHINGTON - When it comes to global warming, scientists and the American public aren't talking on the same wavelength. ...
 
Asians, westerners differ over meaning of 'gay'
Massey News - New Zealand
... is part of the larger Lavender Islands: Portrait of the Whole Family study, which is the first national, strengths-based survey of gay, lesbian and bisexual ...
 
New Report Reveals How Right Wing Fuels Homophobia With Halloween ...
247gay.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
(Washington, DC) — In a report released this week titled "Homophobia at â€*Hell Houseâ€*: Literally Demonizing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth ...
 
 
 

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