LUXEMBOURG (AFP) – The EU’s top court faced a dilemma Wednesday after a top legal officer said it was discriminatory for a firm to tell an employee to remove a Muslim headscarf, contradicting an earlier opinion in a separate case.
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts discriminated against children with autism and their families by depriving them of “full enjoyment” of the company’s theme parks, a Florida civil rights commission ruled this week.
A range of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television departments, programmes, and radio stations are currently offering highly desirable, paid internships, but white people are prohibited from applying. Creative Access – an organisation, registered as a charity, which offers placements at
The conservative American Freedom Law Center is defending a trendy California restaurant, Urth Caffé, and plans a countersuit against seven Muslim women who sued the cafe claiming they were targeted because of Islamophobia.
Carnival Cruises has agreed to rescind its policy of not selling tickets for its newly-announced Cuba cruises to U.S. citizens born in Cuba. Should Cuba ban these individuals from docking, Carnival has promised to delay the program’s maiden voyage. This represents a change in policy following a civil rights lawsuit filed against the corporation.
Carnival Cruises is facing legal action for enacting a ban on American citizens born in Cuba from purchasing tickets to their debuting voyage around the island of Cuba, a restriction which a court may find violates the 1964 U.S. Civil Rights Act.
The passage of North Carolina’s HB2, Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, also known as the “bathroom bill,” has caused several progressive entertainers to boycott that state in protest of the legislation.
Salesforce.com, Inc., threatened to leave Indiana in protest against that state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), claiming it legitimized discrimination. In an ironic twist of fate, Salesforce.com is now being sued… for discrimination.
President Barack Obama’s administration showed Tuesday that he wants to pressure landlords to ignore the criminal records of would-be renters.
National Review staff writer and constitutional attorney David French described Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s acquiescence to corporate pressure and the militant LGBT agenda in his veto of a religious freedom bill as “craven capitulation” that awards him a place in the “governors’ Hall of Shame.”
On Saturday, the Washington Post opined that North Carolina lawmakers have rushed “to bigotry” in passing a new non-discrimination law.
The University of Southern California (USC) is among several colleges across the nation that received a rash of antisemitic fliers in their printers and fax machines.
More than £100,000 in litigation costs have been spent on the Ashers “gay cake” case has so far. The original made-to-order baked confection cost just £36.50 for retail. The startling expenditure was revealed just as Northern Ireland’s Attorney General, John
A public swimming pool in Switzerland has banned groups of three or more, allegedly in an attempt to discourage large gangs of migrants. Left wing activists have branded the policy an “apartheid”. The issue of recently arrived migrants misbehaving in public
Women, people of color, and people who identify as LGBT will be treated to discounted tickets at the upcoming Cinder Block Comedy Festival in New York City, while straight white men have to pay more to attend.
A large-scale analysis of 29 studies has revealed a “sexuality pay gap” between gay and straight women, with heterosexual earning significantly less that their homosexual counterparts. The revelation comes on the same day the British government announced their plans to
WASHINGTON— Protesters descended upon the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters on Wednesday, accusing the agency’s leadership of mismanaging its employees.
Saudi Arabia’s discriminatory automotive policies against women have allowed for the ride-sharing app Uber to achieve great success, due to females’ having limited transportation options.
Kuwait Air has announced it will halt passenger service from New York’s JFK airport to Heathrow in London by January 18, due to a requirement by the United States Department of Transportation that it cease discrimination against Israeli travelers.
A Sikh man and his friends from Brooklyn claim a flight attendant on an American Airlines flight kicked them off because they looked “too Muslim.”
The two Oregon cake-makers charged with discriminating against a lesbian couple say they are continuing to fight for their legal rights, despite misleading media reports.
One of the fathers traveling with the Muslim family banned from entering the U.S. this week has denied any alleged links to Islamist extremism after a Facebook page set up at his home address was discovered, praising al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
The religious radicals who rule Iran have stepped up their enforcement of male-female separation on the ski slopes, dispatching units to enforce segregation laws high up in the mountains.
Three radical feminist lawyers from the UN visited the United States for ten days, ending December 11. Sent as investigators of the UN Working Group on discrimination against women, their report shows they are not very happy.
Twenty-three former IT employees at Disney are preparing to sue the company, having been replaced by foreign workers on H-1B visas, according to a report from Computer World.
The View co-host Raven-Symone sparked an Internet controversy after Thursday’s show for saying she would have no problem discriminating against potential job applicants with “ghetto” names if she were an employer.
On Wednesday, the Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a fine of $400,000 awarded to a group of transgender customers who were banned from a bar in Portland, Oregon.
Advocates for the wheelchair-bound in Connecticut are angling for new handicapped signs, saying the old ones are discriminatory because they feature a sedentary figure.
A new study conducted by researchers at North Carolina State University finds that students who have a southern or Appalachian accent are often discriminated against at the nation’s colleges and universities because of how they sound.
From 2007 to 2014, less than one-third of the speaking parts in the most popular films were given to women, and aside from a few isolated pictures, film roles are still dominated by straight, young, white males, according to a new study.
The former head of Al Jazeera America’s documentary team is suing the network for millions of dollars, alleging that the Doha-based organization has extreme anti-women, pro-Arab, anti-Semitic biases, and promotes 9/11 truther conspiracy theories.
In another telling hint that universities are discriminating against Asian-Americans, Michael Wang, who notched a perfect ACT score, a 2230 SAT, a 4.67 weighted grade point average and 13 Advanced Placement courses on his resume, was rejected by seven Ivy League universities and Stanford in 2013. The only Ivy League school to accept him was the University of Pennsylvania.
Administrators of a Las Vegas school district have received a demand letter from attorneys at the Thomas More Society charging them with unconstitutionally discriminating against a student by denying her the right to form a pro-life club at her high school.
Earlier this week, the San Jose Mercury published an article, “Asian-American Tech Workers Absent from Silicon Valley’s Executive Suites,” that describes how the Ascend Foundation wants to add Asians to the classes of black, women and Latino engineers that are
An American worker is suing his former employer for allegedly discriminating against “individuals who are not South Asian, including discrimination in hiring, placement, and termination decisions.”
By supporting religious freedom, Roger Simon says, “the potential candidates risk alienating the rest of the nation.” A closer look, however, reveals that this might not be the whole story.
In a bizarre new twist on the religious liberty front, Colorado officials have determined that bakeries must cater to proponents of gay marriage but are not legally obliged to decorate cakes with Bible verses.
The president and CEO of famed sports equipment company NIKE, Inc., Mark Parker, is jumping on board the anti-Indiana bandwagon with a public statement claiming that Indiana’s religious freedom law is “discriminatory.”
San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, the only Republican mayor of a major U.S. city, joined the “Boycott Indiana” bandwagon, banning city travel Monday to the state over its recent Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which critics have called anti-gay. “We’ve directed the City’s Chief Operating Officer to take the necessary actions to restrict publicly funded travel by city employees to Indiana if the law is not amended or repealed by next week,” said Faulconer’s spokesperson.
The five-week-long and very salacious trail against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for alleged sexual discrimination against Ellen Pao went to the jury Wednesday. The former junior partner is demanding $16 million for sexual discrimination and up to $144 million for punitive damages. Her suit has paved the way for a coming tsunami of diversity litigation across Silicon Valley.
