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SC/ST Commission says this amounts to discrimination against Dalits and Muslims

The list of things which I can’t get my head around grows with each passing week. The latest addition to the roll call, which already included TikTok, NFTs and Nadine Dorries, is microaggressions. The term apparently refers to any “statement, action, or incident regarded as an instance of indirect, subtle,…

Mayo MP Rebekha Sharkie is launching legal action against the Australian Christian Lobby for copyright infringement over a brochure about her votes on the Religious Discrimination Bill.

Australia's mighty #MeToo wave is piling pressure on mining and political leaders who are preparing to face a reckoning over sexual harassment scandals stretching from the arid Outback to Parliament House.

Activists have warned against Zoom Video Communications, Inc's (NASDAQ:ZM) analyzing emotion and engagement feature of triggering bias and violating personal privacy, Bloomberg reports. Zoom introduced Zoom IQ, a post-call analysis of speaker sentiment powered by artificial intelligence for salespeople. Zoom IQ offered metrics like engagement or patience to improve future communication and deal-making.…

There's a lot of loose talk going around about the potential consequences of the Court's pending decision to overrule Roe v. Wade. Among other things, some serious people, such as several law professors in this Vox symposium, are suggesting that the Court may overrule Loving v. Virginia, which held that…

ATLANTA — Bravo turned NeNe Leakes into a star. NeNe Leakes turned “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” into a hit. For much of the past 14 years, the network and the long-time Duluth resident have had a mutually beneficial relationship.

Smaller communities in Canada, particularly those located in rural areas, find it difficult to attract and especially retain health-care professionals, leading to poorer health outcomes.

Human rights groups have urged video-conferencing company Zoom to scrap research on integrating emotion recognition tools into its products, saying the technology can infringe users' privacy and perpetuate discrimination. Technology publication Protocol reported last month that California-based Zoom was looking into building such tools, which could use artificial intelligence (AI)…

It wasn’t just the sexist warblings of Bill Copeland, a former QC turned after-dinner speaker, which offended women at the SFWA awards, but the alleged homophobic and racist references too.

This perennial question came up again in an e-mail from a reader about the abortion debate, so I thought I'd blog again about it. I think the answer is not just "no," but "hell, no"—I think it would be an outrageous discrimination against religious believers to have such a constitutional…