Religious, social leaders can be agents of change towards AIDS awareness
Times of IndiaNovember 30, 2011
This lopsided awareness only contributes to the discrimination towards HIV infected people, thereby creating social problems," said Dr Vyas. Dr Vyas who actively works in the field of girl child and HIV in Mehsana district resolved to take on the issue ...more »
VSA votes on clause against discrimination
The Miscellany NewsNovember 30, 2011
Article XII states, "The VSA shall not discriminate, nor by its actions encourage discrimination, based on race, color, religious belief, sex, marital status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability, ...more »
How religious leaders are coping with difficulties relating to the war on HIV
Daily NationNovember 30, 2011
Others are different forms of shame, stigma, silence and discrimination which have killed more people than Aids itself; and inaction leading to many HIV-related illnesses that could have been prevented had action been taken early. ...more »
Falun Gong: Discrimination?
Salt Lake City WeeklyNovember 30, 2011
That's when a man told the practitioners to leave, inviting angry accusations of “religious discrimination.” “You have to understand that the Asian community as a whole works together as a community,” the man on the recording says before explaining ...more »
Gov. Gregoire vs. Religious Liberty
Wall Street JournalNovember 30, 2011
In 2009, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) accused Belmont Abbey College, a Catholic college run by Benedictine monks, of "gender discrimination" because it refused to include birth control in its employees' health-care plan. ...more »
Coincidence, pattern or attack?
City PulseNovember 30, 2011
15 and now await Senate approval, would prohibit public employers — including universities and colleges — from offering domestic partner benefits and would prohibit such benefits from being a topic of collective bargaining. ...more »
Conservative Think Tank "Discovers" Importance of 7th Amendment Right to Civil ...
InjuryBoard.comNovember 30, 2011
The Institute is now highlighting a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by a former employee of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). David Coppedge was a 14-year veteran and the senior member of the JPL team that oversees computers for NASA's ...more »
Parliament passes same-sex civil unions bill
NEWS.com.auNovember 30, 2011
Premier Anna Bligh said the bill may not be a priority for all of Queensland but it was a priority for those that live with discrimination every single day of their lives. "The fight against discrimination should be a priority of any government,'' she ...more »
Queensland Parliament debating civil unions bill
Courier MailNovember 30, 2011
Premier Anna Bligh said the bill may not be a priority for all of Queensland but it was a priority for those that live with discrimination every single day of their lives. "The fight against discrimination should be a priority of any government,'' she ...more »
Oy vey! Jewish group's boss told 'mensch' Marshall Garvin where to pray ...
New York Daily NewsNovember 30, 2011
Marshall Garvin was fired by Na'amat USA and is suing Jewish women's group for religious discrimination. A 65-YEAR-OLD “ mensch ” who worked for a major Jewish women's group says his supervisor harassed him for leaving work to pray ...more »
Nigeria Senate voted to criminalize gay marriage
eTaiwan NewsNovember 30, 2011
Gays and lesbians face open discrimination and abuse in a country divided by Christians and Muslims who almost uniformly oppose homosexuality. In the areas in Nigeria's north where Islamic Shariah law has been enforced for about a decade, ...more »
Jerry Moore: Government went too far in Hajj case
Sleepy Eye Herald DispatchNovember 30, 2011
In trying to thwart employment discrimination against people for religious reasons, the federal government has overstepped its bounds in a local case. Safoorah Khan, a public school teacher, filed a complaint in 2008 against the Berkeley ...more »
DC ruling: Same-sex dorms not discriminatory
Washington TimesNovember 30, 2011
Law professor and legal activist John F. Banzhaf III challenged the plan, saying it amounted to discrimination. “Under our DC Human Rights Act you cannot discriminate on race, religion, gender - any of these biases - unless it is absolutely required in ...more »
Jerry Moore: Government went too far in Hajj case
Sulphur Southwest Daily NewsNovember 30, 2011
In trying to thwart employment discrimination against people for religious reasons, the federal government has overstepped its bounds in a local case. Safoorah Khan, a public school teacher, filed a complaint in 2008 against the Berkeley ...more »
Nigeria's Senate Votes to Criminalize Gay Marriage
Fox NewsNovember 30, 2011
The British government recently threatened to cut aid to African countries that violate the rights of gay and lesbian citizens. However, British aid remains quite small in oil-rich Nigeria, one of the top crude suppliers to the US A spokesman for the ...more »
