Sentence examples for counter discrimination from inspiring English sources

GLBTI activists and their families have done much to counter discrimination.

Building on the combined expertise of partners, CRISP aims to counter discrimination and increase citizenship for those who suffer from mental illness.

The ethnic data ban would have left the state "colorblind" at the expense of ongoing programs to counter discrimination and public health problems.

Women who return to work after maternity leave will be offered better job protection than their colleagues under proposals by ministers to counter discrimination at work.

Or he can make a symbolic break with the past and drive out Letwin and his thinking, while at the same time promising to give proper support to those trying to counter discrimination and racial inequality.

Asked about member state objections to the imposition of an EU-wide framework to counter discrimination against the Roma community – an area over which Reding recently clashed with the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy – Sixto Molina of the Council of Europe responded tetchily: "This is a simple question of whether you believe human rights to be universal or not.

GLAAD, formerly Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, organization created in 1985 that is devoted to countering discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals in the media and promoting understanding, acceptance, and equality.

As the Yale legal scholar Reva B. Siegel argued in a brilliant Harvard Law Review article called "She the People," the Court at first understood the Nineteenth Amendment as making a foundational change by providing grounds for countering discrimination on the basis of sex.

The charter's sister document, the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers, focuses on countering discrimination and bias and endeavors to propagate pan-European standards for fair, open, and transparent hiring.

"This is not somebody adhering to old Jim Crow lunch-counter discrimination.

If we cannot agree on countering discrimination against Muslims as a matter of principle, it will be impossible to build a strong state that respects its citizens and its constitution, as is the stated goal of the 'new-era' of President Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri.