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Former disability discrimination commissioner Graeme Innes calls for change after 'humiliating' Adelaide Airport experience

Australia's former disability discrimination commissioner Graeme Innes is calling for immediate change after he says he was discriminated against as he tried to go through Adelaide Airport security.

ABC News

Woman dismissed and told to 'look for another job' because she was pregnant

Abbey Gannapureddy was demoted from her role as assistant manager at Ice Stone Gelato, a position she had held since September 2018, and was later dismiss due to her pregnancy.

Daily Record

Woman demoted and told to 'look for another job' because she was pregnant

Her boss told her "what am I paying you for" after she was unable to perform some tasks, a Manchester tribunal heard

Manchester Evening News

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CPD supervisors reassigned following claims they fostered hostile work environment

The police department’s internal affairs bureau is investigating the string of equal employment opportunity complaints, which are logged in response to allegations of discrimination.

Chicago Sun-Times

U.S. warns of discrimination in using artificial intelligence to screen job candidates

The federal government tells employers that the commonly used hiring tools could violate civil rights laws by discriminating against people with disabilities.

WEKU

Golden Globes member alleges he was victim of racism, abuse at Hollywood Foreign Press Association

LOS ANGELES — Husam “Sam” Asi, a longstanding member the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, is suing the organization over a battery of claims, including sexual harassment, discrimination and breach of contract.

Los Angeles Times

Notice issued to Tirupattur Collector over ban on beef and pork at Ambur Biryani Festival

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

The Hindu

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Our microaggression obsession risks holding minorities back

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,…

Evening Standard

Mayo MP Rebekha Sharkie accuses Australian Christian Lobby of copyright infringement

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.

ABC News

Australia's #MeToo puts miners and ministers in crosshairs of history

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.

Reuters

Privacy Activists Caution Against Zoom's Latest Tool

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.…

Benzinga

No, the Supreme Court is Not Going to Reconsider the Constitutionality of Bans on Interracial Marriage

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…

Reason

What might NeNe Leakes get out of suing Bravo for racial discrimination?

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.

Tribune News Service

How rural Canada can attract and retain international health-care providers: Address discrimination, provide support

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.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Zoom Urged by Rights Groups to Rule Out ‘Creepy’ AI Emotion Tech

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)…

Daily Record

Sickening discrimination is dressed up as lads' banter - and it's shameful

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.

Reason

Is It Unconstitutional for Laws to Be Based on Their Supporters' Religiously Founded Moral Beliefs?

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…

The Independent UK

Asylum seekers in Rwanda wait years for decisions and two thirds are rejected, says Home Office report

Document also cites evidence of discrimination against LGBT and Middle Eastern people in asylum system

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Daily Mirror

One year on from football's social media blackout - what's changed?

A year on from the silence, Mirror Football has asked a panel of diversity leaders for their thoughts on what the impact of football's social media blackout had

Reason

No Pseudonymity for Doctor's Claim of Employment Retaliation by University of Colorado

From a decision this morning by Magistrate Judge Reid Neureiter (D. Colo.) in Doe v. Regents of Univ. of Colo.: Plaintiff is a Hispanic female doctor. She is a highly trained and skilled triple board-certified anesthesiologist, formerly employed as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Colorado ("CU"), with…

Evening Standard

Home Office admits LGBT refugees could face discrimination under Rwanda deal

However, government documents insist Rwanda has ‘legal safeguards’ to protect LGBT people

ABC News

National Disability Insurance Agency accused of discriminating against employees with disability

Some current and former staff of the National Disability Insurance Agency say it failed to provide them with the assistive technology and physical adjustments to their workspaces to enable them to do their jobs properly.

WEKU

Doctors Without Borders addresses charges of racism within its ranks

Journalists have compiled instances of favoring international staff over local staff and treating people of color inequitably. A grassroots group of staffers agrees. Here's how MSF is responding.

The Times of India

No discrimination, benefits for all as in Ram Rajya: UP CM Yogi Adityanath

JHANSI: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said people in the country are getting free vaccination, medical facilities, ration, and benefits of social welfare schemes without any discrimination like in Ram Rajya.

Orlando Sentinel

Women denied entry at Florida strip club will take case to state Supreme Court — again

ORLANDO, Fla. — The attorney for two women who were denied entry into an Orlando strip club in 2018 because they weren’t with a man said Friday he plans to take their case to the Florida Supreme Court again because the issue is more than who can have fun at…

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