The Latest Breaking News from Discrimination

Court Blocks Black-Owned Firm From Exclusive Grants For Black Women

U.S. Court of Appeals ruling against a black-owned firm's exclusive grant program for black women entrepreneurs raises concerns about discrimination and hi...

Top News · Jun 8, 2024

Former senator re-elected to United Nations committee

A former Australian senator has secured another term on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.

AAP · Jun 8, 2024

Being a feminist in China: A battle lost in advance

In China, the ruling Communist Party encourages women to focus on motherhood and the home, rather than self-emancipation. While some Chinese feminists have tried to denounce the inequality and discrimination they face, their numbers are dwindling amid a crackdown by authorities. Our correspondents report.

France 24 · Jun 7, 2024

UK Receptionist Who Can't Pronounce Name Of Law Firm Is Laid Off After A Week

Miss J Earle lost an employment tribunal claim after she was fired for failing to say the name of her law firm.

International Business Times UK · Jun 4, 2024

Black-Women-Only Grant Program Likely Violates Federal Law, Isn't Protected by First Amendment

From American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Fearless Fund Mgmt., LLC, decided today by the Eleventh Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Kevin Newsom, joined by Judge Robert Luck: [We hold that] the Fearless Strivers Grant Contest, an entrepreneurship funding competition open only to businesses owned by black women, [likely]…

Reason · Jun 3, 2024

Stealth quotas take a big step back in Congress

But not big enough: How APRA should be amended.

Reason · Jun 2, 2024

Mexico votes in elections likely to produce its first female president

Mexicans voted Sunday in a presidential election dominated by two women – a historic first in a country with a history of gender-based violence and discrimination.

France 24 · Jun 2, 2024

Mexico On Brink Of Electing First Woman President

Mexican voters are expected to make history Sunday by electing their first woman president, a milestone in the crime-plagued country where gender-based violence and discrimination have long been rampant.

International Business Times · Jun 2, 2024

Merrill Lynch agrees to pay nearly $20 million to settle class action racial discrimination lawsuit

Merrill Lynch has agreed to pay nearly $20 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accuses the Wall Street brokerage giant of racially discriminating against its Black financial advisers

The Independent UK · May 31, 2024

'Humiliating and Degrading': Black Men Sue Airline After Removal from Flight Over 'Body Odour' Claims

Three African American men are suing American Airlines for kicking them off a flight headed to New York.

International Business Times UK · May 30, 2024