Category Archives: Discrimination

Cuban dissidents complain of escalating repression

The level of police violence against peaceful dissidents was the highest in recent years,” the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation said Tuesday in a report focusing on incidents last month. “In August 2011 we documented at least … Continue reading

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Stoning Women to death

The stoning of women is one of the more savage, and revealing aspects of the mullahs’ rule in Iran and of fundamentalist application of the law in Afghanistan. Since the inception of the mullahs’ rule in Iran hundreds of women … Continue reading

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Public complaints over Gately article

A Daily Mail columnist has issued a statement rejecting claims that an article she wrote on the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately is homophobic. Jan Moir defended her opinion piece, published in the British edition of today’s newspaper, claiming … Continue reading

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Transgender child, job are focus of complaint against TSC

Tippecanoe County’s Human Relations Commission is investigating a discrimination complaint involving the Tippecanoe School Corp. and a transgender student. According to Mike Piggott, commission chairman, Trudy Paxton of Lafayette filed the complaint against the TSC on behalf on herself and … Continue reading

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Shoppers Drug Mart Complaints – Rude, racist, poor service

I am a brown skin woman and I was there on a weekday in the afternoon for the first time at that store to purchase some flyer items. A white cashier named Linda, looked at me disgustingly and said arrogantly … Continue reading

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Costco pulls dolls after customer complaints about racist connotations

Costco Wholesale Corp. has pulled from store shelves around the country African-American dolls, packaged with stuffed monkeys and wearing hats that said “Lil’ Monkey,” after a customer complained about the toys’ racist connotations. Costco pulled the dolls from its shelves … Continue reading

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Discrimination complaints jump 500 percent in Frederick Co.

The Frederick County Human Relations Department saw a 500 percent increase in discrimination complaints, strengthened its ordinance language and trained county employees on equal opportunity employment in fiscal 2009. The department, along with the Human Relations Commission, issued its annual … Continue reading

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Discrimination complaints in county rose in 2008

The number of complaints filed with the county’s Office of Human Rights increased by about 10 percent in 2008 even as incidents of “hate bias” dropped, according to a year-end report. The county Office of Human Rights investigates complaints of … Continue reading

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Report finds racial profiling complaints highest since 2002

A new state report on traffic stops showed the highest number of complaints about targeting of minorities since record-keeping began in 2002. Twenty-two complaints of racial profiling were received last year by the Nebraska Crime Commission, which issued its latest … Continue reading

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U.S. to probe parents’ complaints of bias in L. Merion schools

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights will investigate complaints from South Ardmore parents that a redistricting plan for Lower Merion’s schools discriminates on the basis of race. The parents alleged in their complaints “that the plan’s separation … Continue reading

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