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Kick It Out: Record number of reports prove discrimination still a serious issue

The anti-discrimination body received more than 1,000 reports of discriminatory behaviour during the 2022-23 season.

The Independent UK

HHS proposes expanding nondiscrimination protections - Roll Call

The protections are centered on sexual orientation and gender identity and apply to some federal grant programs providing human services.

Roll Call

Caster Semenya found to be victim of discrimination in testosterone case by ECHR

Semenya won Olympic gold over 800 metres at the 2012 and 2016 Games.

The Independent UK

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Caster Semenya wins appeal over ‘discrimination’ at European Court of Human Rights

Caster Semenya was discriminated against by the introduction of rules forcing her to lower her testosterone levels in order to continue competing, according to a judgment from the European Court of Human Rights.

Evening Standard

Former reporter suing CNN for unfair dismissal and racial discrimination

Saima Mohsin says she was disabled after reporting injury and told she did not have ‘the look’ for presenting

The Guardian - UK

Police violence: How can France tackle racial profiling without first addressing race?

Young men in France perceived to be Black or Arab are 20 times more likely to be stopped by police than the rest of the population, according to the country's human rights ombudsman. Racial profiling runs deep in the French police force, but unlike in the US and Canada, very…

France 24

Affirmative action hasn’t made up for centuries of racial discrimination

I felt sympathy for my white classmate who did not get accepted into the U of I, but that sympathy has eroded over the years, Alden Loury writes. Affirmative action may have provided me an advantage in getting into college, but he has advantages in practically every other facet of…

Chicago Sun-Times

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SCOTUS returns to "separate but equal"

How the right made discrimination a First Amendment issue

Salon

My New Washington Examiner Article on the Supreme Court's Ruling on Racial Preferences in College Admissions

The article assesses strengths and weaknesses of the Court's decision, and what it will take to implement Chief Justice Roberts' admonition that "[e]liminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it."

Reason

America still has a race problem, but affirmative action isn’t the solution

If the Supreme Court’s recent decision has the effect of focusing on the broken pipeline of K-12 education, it will have done far more for disadvantaged students than any racial preference program

Chicago Sun-Times

Dumfries and Galloway councillors call for tougher interventions in LGBT hate crime

The issue was raised at the full council meeting where all members agreed to take proactive steps to protect individuals from abuse and bigotry based on sexual orientation or identity

Daily Record

What it Will Take to Make Government Color-Blind

Achieving this goal will require a lot more than banning racial preferences in college admissions. That includes some measures that will make the political right uncomfortable, as well as the left.

Reason

California bill to ban caste bias progresses in Assembly. Here’s how it has changed

A state bill to bolster California’s civil rights protections by banning caste discrimination cleared a major obstacle Wednesday, passing through the Assembly Judiciary Committee by a 9-0 vote after some language changes.

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court asks UGC what action taken against caste discrimination in campuses

The Supreme Court on July 6 asked the University Grants Commission (UGC) to specify steps it has taken and proposed to take, to provide non-discriminatory, enabling environment for the students belonging to Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes in institutions of higher learning, terming it a “very serious issue”

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The Conversation

Police treatment in black and white – report on Minneapolis policing is the latest reminder of systemic racial disparities

The latest reminder that police officers around the country routinely deny Black people their constitutional rights comes from the Justice Department. This time, it’s about Minneapolis, the site of a police officer’s video-recorded murder of resident George Floyd.

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Aussies urged to 'stay strong' with heated voice debate

Aboriginal senator Malarndirri McCarthy says Australians can build a better country as research reveals the extent of discrimination against Indigenous people.

Reason

On Groff v. DeJoy and 303 Creative v. Elenis

Not blockbusters, maybe, but important cases nonetheless

The Hindu

Striking a blow against affirmative action in America

The U.S. seeks to eliminate all distinctions based on race universally, which is a narrow view of equality and which prevents broad-based race conscious measures

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The Independent UK

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson: Yorkshire paying price for handling of racism case

The club are set to be sanctioned over their response to an investigation which found Azeem Rafiq had been the victim of discrimination and bullying.

Tribune News Service

Tesla: The cars that racism built? Black workers claim lawsuits have not stopped discrimination

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Complaint after complaint alleging anti-Black racism at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California, has not stopped such abuse and discrimination, with Black workers segregated into the hardest, most dangerous, lowest-paid jobs and subjected to a barrage of racist treatment, language and images, according to claims in recent…

France 24

French suburbs: Fresh protests against police violence rooted in decades of harassment, inequality

When a police officer last week shot and killed a resident of Paris’s suburb of Nanterre, 17-year-old Nahel M., it unleashed a wave of unrest across France – an echo of similar protests launched by youth living in housing projects two decades earlier. Billions of euros of investment in the…

Irish Mirror

Dublin landlord in discrimination claim after asking pregnant woman and husband to move out

Mr O’Brien’s solicitor, Colm Hickey, rejected the claims and stressed his client was concerned that there was a “health and safety issue” about a spiral staircase leading to the apartment which was “wholly unsuitable” for a pregnant woman and children.

Zenger

U.S. Supreme Court Protects Christian Designer’s Religious Freedom In Website Case

Colorado anti-discrimination law challenged as court rules against compelling speech.

Reason

How to Read 303 Creative v. Elenis

The speech compulsion it forbids is not limited to wedding-website designers who object to same-sex marriage, but its principles should apply only to a narrow range of commercial products

The Guardian - UK

British army admits soldier was victim of ‘anti-Islamic bias’

Exclusive: Ebrima Bayo accepts settlement of religious discrimination case after five-and-a-half-year battle

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