Hla Myat Tun, a human rights activist with the Burmese LGBT group Colors Rainbow, tells The Huffington Post that such "state-sponsored discrimination" is a grave concern for the LGBT community in Myanmar, where homosexuality is criminalized.
Yet, according to the State Department Office of Legislative Affairs, the State Department Historian's Office, and the Senate Historian, to date there has been no public acknowledgment or apology by the Department or the U.S. Government for this history of discrimination, and the grave injustice done to these State Department employees, based on their sexual orientation. .
Discrimination against women is a grave concern embedded in the roots of my society in India and social systems across the globe since antiquity.
This is just one of the many ways in which gender discrimination shadows us still, from cradle to grave.
Racial discrimination in voting is "one of the gravest evils that Congress can seek to redress," Judge David Tatel wrote in a crucial ruling on Friday upholding the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act.
Domestic violence is the gravest human rights abuse happening in Australia, the outgoing sex discrimination commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick, has warned.
It said one of them, an enormous sex-discrimination class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart, posed "grave risks for American business".
Parties to the Protocol allow the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to hear complaints from individuals or inquire into "grave or systematic violations" of the Convention.
In a grave injustice, low-income communities, poor nations, and people systematically subjected to oppression and discrimination, who contributed little to climate change, will initially be harmed the most.
But a far larger group — a dozen or more — would be guided by the Senate's Republican minority leader, Everett Dirksen of Illinois, who had announced his grave concerns about the two most important sections of the bill: one that would bar discrimination in public places, and another forbidding discrimination in private sector employment.
