Tag Archives : Discrimination

Finally Amnesty International Hong Kong has spoken up against gross discrimination and human rights abuse LGBTs face because of their sexuality by launching a ‘Gay’ campaign. Yes, the pun is very much intended in these series of print advertisements. The message in the print ads say: Gay People Are Not Gay, Make More People Gay Today and Everybody [...]

If there is one bastion of bureaucracy, it is the United Nations. Embarrassing as it is that the organization is deluged with sexual harassment complaints within its own ranks, this agency that is mandated to protect human rights across the globe, has an arbitrary and unfair system of handling its internal sexual harassment cases. The processing of [...]

Workplace discrimination is a pervading reality. There always seems to be some form of bias that exists in the workplace. This is basically because the workplace is a venue of convergence of many personality types, origins, and persuasion. Managers and supervisors would do well not to turn a blind eye to any indication of discrimination in the workplace. [...]

The United States has gone far in protecting its domestic labor force and employees of its offshore companies. The U.S. is one of the very few countries where workers’ rights are fully recognized, upheld, and protected. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) law stipulates that an employee who experiences discrimination can seek solutions such as back [...]

A very apparent gap exists between the lives of the rich and the mere mortals. In every way, the differences are highlighted in bold so that we never mistake a rich guy for the guy next door. What happen online though? Social networking sites seem to welcomes everyone irrelevant of the colour, religion, sexuality, blah blah, or so we thought. WhyteGold [...]

Pride renders in a proud man’s mind the idea that he has more rights than others, since he is deemed to be in a superior position. He, therefore, has the right to amass wealth more than the others. Pride leads to greed and gluttony, two more deadly sins, because pride gives the false impression that it is alright to gain more and merit more. The [...]

High regard for one’s self, at the expense of recognizing the equal worth of others, is the most operational definition of pride. It is the deadliest of all deadly sins. It causes one to love his or her own excellence, without realizing that others can be excellent, too. Pride is the bedrock of all discrimination on earth. Pride goes beyond the basic [...]

Discrimination in the workplace is operationally defined as the unfavorable or unfair treatment that an employee suffers from due to his or her race, religion, nationality, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic and human right. Official discrimination may also be experienced by those who question authorities and report them, or [...]

Call it a freak incident or a hate crime that has stirred emotions all across America. Brandon McClelland’s gruesome murder has resulted in fresh racial tensions in the conservative South. Texan McClelland was black and was dragged by a truck to his death by two white men. However, it is unclear and perhaps preposterous to say that it was a racially [...]