Discrimination

Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between human beings based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they are perceived to belong. People may be discriminated on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, or sexual orientation, as well as other categories. Discrimination especially occurs when individuals or groups are unfairly treated in a way which is worse than other people are treated, on the basis of their actual or perceived membership in certain groups or social categories. It involves restricting members of one group from opportunities or privileges that are available to members of another …

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IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 17 July 2024 English

IISD provides insights on aspects of World Trade Organization (WTO) members' plastics that have created friction with trading partners and suggests recommendations for the adoption of such policies in the …

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IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 16 July 2024 English

A group of 90 World Trade Organization (WTO) members are negotiating a new global agreement on e-commerce rules at the WTO. After close to 7 years of discussions, they are …

the measures are not arbitrary, unjustified discrimination against other parties’ persons, and are not Openness and electronic commerce B.1. Non- discrimination and liability 16 Non-discriminatory treatment


NSP: New Society Publishers · 25 June 2024 English

Deep polarization in our society prevents us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face. The Solutionary Way offers a practical approach, providing clear and achievable methods to bridge …

more than 90% do.7 • In the United States, discrimination based on race was legal. In many states, people segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex


DDN: Dundurn Press · 18 June 2024 English

Meet the brilliant mavericks who invented the future of medicine and saved the lives of millions.The Essence of Invention tells the story of medical invention, from the development of anesthesia …

citations, and negotiations over salary. Gender discrimination also plays a negative role in other areas.


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors for large-scale agricultural projects, displacing and disrupting rural communities. Women are …

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women CFS Committee on World Food divisions of labour, gender-based exclusion or discrimination in decision-making or resource control, and had limited impacts because of gender-based discrimination in the ad- ministration of the law, gender


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 June 2024 English

Since the first edition of this popular text was published in 1984, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has transformed the role of the courts in Canadian politics. Addressing current …

to strike down the legal barriers of racial discrimination in American society. However, as the Supreme


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 6 June 2024 English

Feministing in Political Science examines what is at stake in contesting the boundaries of the contemporary university. This critique of mainstream Canadian political science pushes beyond typical studies of institutions …

felt experiences of toxicity, harassment, and discrimination. Various encounters with gatekeepers and powerbrokers


CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 4 June 2024 English

This framework highlights areas that require redress and proposes constructive policy options to better protect Canadians. These options will be explored in more detail in subsequent policy briefs

supports; - people with disabilities facing discrimination; and - the inaccessibility of necessary medical


DDN: Dundurn Press · 4 June 2024 English

A diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion.In this powerful and deeply personal collection, Gloria Blizzard uses traditional narrative essays, hybrid structures, and the tools of poetry to …

pick one and by so doing exclude others. This discrimination fosters adjacent problems that one piece that


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 3 June 2024 English

Arts graduate education is uniquely positioned to deliver many of the public good needs of contemporary Canada. For the Public Good argues, however, that graduate programs must fundamentally change if …

mounts that intersecting patterns of sexism, discrimination, and racism make the “Canadian multicultural colonialism, racism, and other forms of systemic discrimination forces us to look inward and challenge our


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