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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"(Anti) Discrimination"”.
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Locating Sex: the Rhetorical Contours of Transgender Anti-Discrimination Law
Legislation and litigation aimed at ending discrimination against transgender people has been both critiqued as eliding the structural roots of discrimination and celebrated as an important visibility project that helps to highlight the struggles trans people face. Approaching law as an ongoing …
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Antisemitism in British football : examining good practice in anti-discrimination educational initiatives
Antisemitism, which adversely impacts Jewish communities worldwide, manifests in various forms, from verbal abuse and social discrimination to physical violence and even genocide. Antisemitism has been documented in European football stadiums, where antisemitic chants, symbols, and slurs have been …
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Does the proposed dividends tax overcome the international tax flaws that secondary tax on companies may have, namely exclusion from the scope of some double tax agreements and violation of the anti-discrimination provisions embodied in the OECD mode
… therefrom could be in contravention of the non-discrimination provisions of Article 24(5) of the OECD MTC. This question has not been decided in a South African court. This dissertation proposes the resolution to this question. The outcome of this research may be particularly relevant in the …
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Equality Before the Law: Equal Dignity and the Rule of Law
… this general claim is applied to the concept of anti-discrimination. I argue that one of the core ways in which discrimination can be determined to be wrongful is when it fails to treat those affected as moral equals. This is one of the core wrongs that the principles of judicial review seek to …
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Examining Workplace Discrimination in a Discrimination-Free Environment
… this study is to explore how racial and gender discrimination is reproduced in concrete workplace settings even when anti-discrimination policies are present, and to understand the various reactions utilized by those who commonly experience it. I have selected a particular medical center, …
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The force of law: Effects of legislation on formal and interpersonal discrimination towards gay and lesbian job applicants
… the influence of sexual orientation employment antidiscrimination legislation on sexual orientation prejudice and discrimination, including interpersonal measures of discrimination. Although previous research has found evidence of greater perceived discrimination in areas without …
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Redesigning the United States Department of Education for localized ideation through user-centric research and organizational design
… the federal Department of Education provides quantitative data collection and publishing, student loan programs, anti-discrimination mandates, and other initiatives vital to the management of education nationwide, compared to states, they are relatively distanced from the local issues that …
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Persona dolls and anti-bias curriculum practice with young children : a case study of early childhood development teachers
Anti-discrimination, one of the central principles of South Africa's Constitution and Bill of Rights, is central to the Early Childhood Development curriculum. The anti-bias, or anti-discrimination, approach challenges prejudice and oppression of all kinds and aims to develop self-esteem, respect …
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Practice Bold as Love: ‘Professing’ Community Work
… social transformation, human rights, equality, anti-discrimination, social and environmental justice through the processes of collective empowerment, and participation (Ledwith 2005; AIEB 2016). The story of community work in Ireland sees a shift from a once relatively independent practice …
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Disability Loophole a critical analysis of the definition of Disability under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
… issues concerning Section 1 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. When the Act was first passed in December 1995 it was considered to be a major break through in obtaining equality and protection for disabled people. This research demonstrated how Section 1 of the Disability Discrimination …
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Is the Gender Reassignment protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 inclusive of the non-binary community?
… people, putting them at a greater risk of discrimination and need for legal support. However, despite this recorded vulnerability, there remains a divisive argument over whether or not non-binary people are legally recognised and therefore protected by the Equality Act 2010. This study …
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Exploring public management and diversity in a single embedded case-study : Developing new theories and strategies for cultural diversity management in German public administrations
… of assuring equal treatment and avoiding discrimination, especially since the public sector is, in principle, subject to equal treatment (Footnote 1). Referring to the role of the state, this study, therefore, posits two main arguments: first, based on fundamental duties, public …
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Increasing Professional Interpreter Use To Improve Patient Outcomes On The Inpatient Oncology Unit
… outcomes and maintaining compliance to federal anti-discrimination policies. This quality improvement project aimed to develop, implement, and evaluate the effects of an evidence based assessment flow chart and toolbox to facilitate the identification and utilization of professional interpreter …
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Inclusive School Climate as a Protective Factor for LGBTQ Youth
… student organization and inclusive dress code, anti-discrimination policy, and anti-bullying policy, on student victimization experiences, reporting behaviors, and adjustment. The study investigated the climates of nine individual schools with a total of 2,571 participants. Results indicated …
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Contentious Cosmopolitans: Black Public History and Civil Rights in Cold War Chicago, 1942-1972
… dispersions, white supremacist reactions, and anticommunist repressions. My argument proceeds by demonstrating how these public history projects coalesced around a series of connected pedagogical endeavors. These endeavors included the work of school teachers on Chicago's South side who tried …
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"A Mulato cannot be prejudiced" : the legal construction of racial discrimination in contemporary Brazil
… an in-depth empirical study of Brazilian racial discrimination law, examines the trends in complaining and surprising variation in official decisionmaking over the past decade. I collected more than 300 racial discrimination complaints, police investigations and court proceedings filed since …
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Three Essays on Public Housing and Social Inequality
… "The Spillover Effects of Source of Income Anti-Discrimination Laws on Public Housing," I examine whether and to what extent source of income (SOI) anti-discrimination laws affect the sociodemographic composition of households living in public housing. SOI laws make it illegal for landlords …
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Connecting disability equality to citizenship education
… no longer tenable. In analogue to race and sex discrimination, I use legal case analyses, together with empirically framed case studies within an international perspective, to systematically explore different aspects of citizenship. Citizenship elements range from ‘legal’, ‘constitutional …
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"Until the last Rebel": A study of the Green Brigade as a politicised football supporters' "Subculture"
… key activities, policing, political education, anti-fascism, attitudes to sexism, and the influence of Irish Republicanism. The thesis draws upon theories of culture, subculture, social movements, radical pedagogy, ethnographies and studies of ultras, gender and football research, as well as …
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The end of tolerance: new discourses of racism, migration and the state in Britain, 1997-2008
… and political inclusion, to be effected by anti-discrimination legislation, multicultural tolerance and political representation, gave way to a new notion of'integration' defined as the adoption of 'British values', to be effected by oaths of allegiance, citizenship tests and various other …
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