Former president says black people see him as a victim of discrimination over indictments Sat Feb 24 2024 - 08:28 Dublin-based company hit by US sanctions wave targeting Russia Cubit Semiconductor Limited has made dozens of shipments of sensitive electronic components to sanctioned Russian manufacture...
The situation changed dramatically in the late 1960s, when Catholics in Northern Ireland began a civil rights campaign against discrimination in voting, housing, and employment by the dominant Protestant government and population. Violence by extremists against the demonstrators—unhindered by the mostly...
but lack of active support by Catholics in Northern Ireland rendered such effortsfutile. The situation changed dramatically in the late 1960s, when Catholics in Northern Ireland began acivil rightscampaign againstdiscriminationin voting, housing, and employment by the dominant Protestant government and ...
However, some exceptions remain as the invisible and indeterminate nature of indirect discrimination makes it a difficult issue to address (Lynch, 1999). Interestingly, Michael was one of seven male students in that year. In the entire teacher education college there were 10 male students and 65...
Still, times were tough for most of them, especially the Catholics who frequently found themselves a minority and targets of discrimination in an overwhelmingly Protestant nation. FROM FAMINE YEARS TO THE PRESENT It was the cataclysmic Potato Famine of 1845-1851, one of the most severe disasters...
Nobel Peace Prize winner to run in DRC presidential election Denis Mukwege looks to political role in conflict-torn and exploited Democratic Republic of the Congo By Sally HaydenTue Oct 03 2023 - 19:42 Sally Hayden: Visa discrimination thwarts African journalists and weakens democracy African inve...
In 2017, a UN report accused Israel of imposing an “apartheid regime” of racial discrimination on the Palestinian people. No surprise that an official of the racist, apartheid state accused the report of being antisemitic. Ian Kay December 21, 2021 at 7:00 pm ...
in state court, alleging that the denial of their application to march violated,inter alia,a state law prohibiting discrimination on account of sexual orientation in places of public accommodation. In finding such a violation and ordering the Council to include GLIB in the parade, the trial court...
In Northern Ireland, Irish Travellers were formally recognized as an ethnic minority in 1997, followed by recognition in Britain in 2000. The Equal Status Act of 2000 made discrimination against Travellers illegal in Ireland. However, other laws such as the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act ...
By the mid-1960s thedemographicmajority that Protestants enjoyed in Northern Ireland ensured that they were able to control the state institutions, and these powers were at times used in ways that disadvantaged the region’s Roman Catholic minority (though the extent ofdiscriminationin Northern Irelan...