By Tom Philips, The Guardian
A court is hearing China’s first transgender discrimination case in what activists describe as a landmark legal battle they hope will advance the LGBT cause in the country.
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Showing posts with label international. Show all posts
Monday, April 18, 2016
Court hears China's first transgender discrimination case
Manager of health centre in Guiyang told newspaper transgender man was sacked because his appearance ‘didn’t fit our standards’
Monday, April 11, 2016
Affirmative Action for immigrants in civil service moves forward
The Jerusalem Post
Government will have to implement affirmative action for recent immigrants and the ultra-Orthodox in their hiring practices if a bill authorized Tuesday for a first reading in the Knesset Law, Constitution and Justice Committee becomes law.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Nigeria anger as Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill fails
BBC
Nigeria's Senate has been condemned for rejecting a proposed bill aimed at eliminating "all forms of discrimination" against women.
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Monday, March 14, 2016
How Children Around the World Learn to Be Sexist
Gender bias is rampant in textbooks in multiple countries, researchers argue.
By By Lauren Camera, U.S. News & World Report
Sexism is rife in textbooks all across the globe, with many portraying girls and women in submissive household roles – or not at all.
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In corridors of power: Equal opportunity for women stressed
The Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD: Human rights activists have called for equal access and fullest participation of women in corridors of power and public institutes in addition to increasing their capacity to engage in decision-making and leadership roles.
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Monday, March 7, 2016
Nearly a third of Japan's women 'sexually harassed at work'
Survey showing women were touched inappropriately and pressed for sex deals blow to efforts to support female workers
Almost a third of Japanese women have been sexually harassed at work, according to a government report that deals another blow to attempts to boost women’s role in the workplace.
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What South Africans really think about racism and affirmative action
A new report by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) reveals the opinions of South Africans of all races when it comes to issues of racism and affirmative action.
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Monday, February 22, 2016
Education experts spar over affirmative action at University of Manitoba
Faculty of education to set aside 45% of spots for students from 'diversity categories'
CBC News
CBC News
Rodney Clifton, professor emeritus of education at the University of Manitoba, is worried the faculty's new affirmative action plan will take away spots from students more qualified to be teachers.
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Monday, February 1, 2016
Progress slow for gender, pay equality in global workforce: report
By Patricia Reaney, Reuters
Women around the globe are seeing slow progress in gaining gender and pay equality and are under-represented at all levels in the workplace and executive boardrooms, a report shows.
Women around the globe are seeing slow progress in gaining gender and pay equality and are under-represented at all levels in the workplace and executive boardrooms, a report shows.
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David Cameron Says Lack of Diversity at Top Shames Britain
Associated Press
British Prime Minister David Cameron says he will make universities disclose what proportion of poor and ethnic minority applicants they admit, in an attempt to end racial and class discrimination that "should shame our country and jolt us to action."
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British Prime Minister David Cameron says he will make universities disclose what proportion of poor and ethnic minority applicants they admit, in an attempt to end racial and class discrimination that "should shame our country and jolt us to action."
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- British Prime Minister Criticizes Oxford for Low Enrollment of Disadvantaged Students (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- University of Oxford rebuts Cameron's claims over student diversity (The Guardian)
Non-white Scots 'face work prejudice'
BBC
People from ethnic minority backgrounds in Scotland are still being held back by workplace discrimination, according to a report by a committee of MSPs.
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Monday, January 25, 2016
The woman trying to make Israel equal
By Dahlia Scheindlin, 972mag.com
For the past eight years Equal Employment Commissioner Tziona Koenig-Yair has fought dozens of employers discriminating against minorities, rolled out creative new tools for fighting the gender wage gap, and much more. In an interview with +972, she discusses affirmative action, the role of societal racism in the labor market, and her hopes for equal opportunity in Israel.
For the past eight years Equal Employment Commissioner Tziona Koenig-Yair has fought dozens of employers discriminating against minorities, rolled out creative new tools for fighting the gender wage gap, and much more. In an interview with +972, she discusses affirmative action, the role of societal racism in the labor market, and her hopes for equal opportunity in Israel.
Read the story here.
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- Affirmative action proposed for Arabs who served in IDF (The Jerusalem Post)
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Israel: Government approves affirmative action for haredi men and women in civil service
By Jeremy Sharon, The Jersualem Post
The government on Sunday approved a decision to accelerate the integration of haredi men and women into the state civil service, following recommendations from Periphery Minister and Shas head Arye Deri and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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The government on Sunday approved a decision to accelerate the integration of haredi men and women into the state civil service, following recommendations from Periphery Minister and Shas head Arye Deri and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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Monday, December 21, 2015
Increase in quota alone will not empower women: HRCP
Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: As invaluable as affirmative action, including job quotas and reserved seats in the legislature, for women could be, empowerment for women was impossible in the absence of effective and across the board implementation of the quota regime and ensuring land rights for them.
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Monday, November 23, 2015
Nigeria: Gender Equality - Reps to Reconsider Equal Opportunity Bill
By Rotimi Akinwumi, All Africa
Abuja — The House of Representatives, Thursday, resolved to continue with the legislative business from the previous Assembly by re-committing the Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill, 2015 to the Committee of the Whole for consideration.
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Abuja — The House of Representatives, Thursday, resolved to continue with the legislative business from the previous Assembly by re-committing the Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill, 2015 to the Committee of the Whole for consideration.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Affirmative action and the Employment Equity Act in South Africa
Shepstone & Wylie Attorneys, Lexology
Affirmative action in South Africa is defined in the Employment Equity Act No. 55 of 1998 (“the Act”) as:
Affirmative action in South Africa is defined in the Employment Equity Act No. 55 of 1998 (“the Act”) as:
“Measures designed to ensure that suitably qualified people from designated groups have equal employment opportunities and are equitably represented in all occupational categories and levels in the workforce of a designated employer."
Designated groups refer to black people, women and people with disabilities. Section 6(2) of the Act also states that it is not unfair discrimination to take affirmative action measures consistent with the purposes of the Act.
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Affirmative action – A New Agenda for Indian Muslims
By Moin Qazi, The Chicago Monitor
We are back to debating reservations [quotas] in India. The argument in favor of affirmative action — for groups that suffer substantial, pervasive and abiding forms of disadvantage — is compelling. Such disadvantage is self-perpetuating. Given the mechanics of social power and its translatability into political, cultural and economic power, external intervention is essential to break the vicious cycle. The demand for affirmative action for Muslims which has been underlined by several government commissions has been further revived by the address of Mr. Hamid Anasri the Vice President of India at the golden jubilee celebrations of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, an umbrella of several mainstream Muslim organizations. Describing as “commendable” the “official objective of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, the government’s policy initiative for inclusive development, he emphasized that “a pre-requisite for this is affirmative action (where necessary) to ensure a common starting point.”
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We are back to debating reservations [quotas] in India. The argument in favor of affirmative action — for groups that suffer substantial, pervasive and abiding forms of disadvantage — is compelling. Such disadvantage is self-perpetuating. Given the mechanics of social power and its translatability into political, cultural and economic power, external intervention is essential to break the vicious cycle. The demand for affirmative action for Muslims which has been underlined by several government commissions has been further revived by the address of Mr. Hamid Anasri the Vice President of India at the golden jubilee celebrations of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, an umbrella of several mainstream Muslim organizations. Describing as “commendable” the “official objective of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, the government’s policy initiative for inclusive development, he emphasized that “a pre-requisite for this is affirmative action (where necessary) to ensure a common starting point.”
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Ghana Gender Ministry finalises Affirmative Action Bill
As part of its objective to create the appropriate legal regime for mainstreaming gender issues into socio-economic development, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has finalised the Affirmative Action Bill.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Students in South Africa Protest Slow Pace of Change
By Norimitsu Onishi, The New York Times
CAPE TOWN — It was only when he landed at the University of Cape Town, a bastion of the fight against apartheid, that Ramabina Mahapa became truly conscious of his race.
Mr. Mahapa, 23, grew up in a village with only black South Africans, and he graduated at the top of his high school class. But when he got to the University of Cape Town, the gap between black and white students became clear to him: Of the 15 people who owned cars in his dorm, only one was black. When the first test results came in, the black students ranked at the bottom.
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CAPE TOWN — It was only when he landed at the University of Cape Town, a bastion of the fight against apartheid, that Ramabina Mahapa became truly conscious of his race.
Mr. Mahapa, 23, grew up in a village with only black South Africans, and he graduated at the top of his high school class. But when he got to the University of Cape Town, the gap between black and white students became clear to him: Of the 15 people who owned cars in his dorm, only one was black. When the first test results came in, the black students ranked at the bottom.
Read the story here.
Brazil's Colour Bind
By Stephanie Nolen, The Globe and Mail
Brazil is combating many kinds of inequality. But one of the world’s most diverse nations is still just beginning to talk about race.
...Brazil has two kinds of universities: There are private ones, which are either exceedingly expensive or of very poor quality. And there are public ones, run by the federal and state governments, which tend to be of a much higher calibre – and are free. But because competition for spots in the public schools is fierce, only applicants who have had a private-school education, and the benefit of months or even years of private coaching for the entrance exam, can pass the entrance test.
But in 2004, UFBA introduced a new policy: 36 per cent of seats would now be reserved for black and mixed-race students. For years, black activists had been targeting the universities, as the ultimate symbols (and purveyors) of the elite, for a first effort at affirmative action. In 2002, university administrations began to adopt ad hoc strategies, reserving spots for non-white students. The quotas, as they are baldly called here, applied to every faculty, but they had an outsized impact on the prestigious schools of law, medicine and engineering, which, even in majority-black Bahia, had long graduated all-white classes, year after year.
Read the full report here.
Click here for a related Diverse article about race and access to higher education in Latin America.
Brazil is combating many kinds of inequality. But one of the world’s most diverse nations is still just beginning to talk about race.
...Brazil has two kinds of universities: There are private ones, which are either exceedingly expensive or of very poor quality. And there are public ones, run by the federal and state governments, which tend to be of a much higher calibre – and are free. But because competition for spots in the public schools is fierce, only applicants who have had a private-school education, and the benefit of months or even years of private coaching for the entrance exam, can pass the entrance test.
But in 2004, UFBA introduced a new policy: 36 per cent of seats would now be reserved for black and mixed-race students. For years, black activists had been targeting the universities, as the ultimate symbols (and purveyors) of the elite, for a first effort at affirmative action. In 2002, university administrations began to adopt ad hoc strategies, reserving spots for non-white students. The quotas, as they are baldly called here, applied to every faculty, but they had an outsized impact on the prestigious schools of law, medicine and engineering, which, even in majority-black Bahia, had long graduated all-white classes, year after year.
Read the full report here.
Click here for a related Diverse article about race and access to higher education in Latin America.
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