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• Disability discrimination cases highlight continuing poor practice

  A policy doesn't stop discrimination, people do. Two recent cases have raised the whole issue of discrimination against individuals with disabilities, in particular Asperger’s Syndrome and diabetes. Though the cases were different they raise particular issues of concern and similarity which should be considered as a challenge to many organisations and ...

  Posted at August 23, 2011 | By : donald | Categories : Equality and Diversity | 0 Comment

• Human Rights trending on Twitter

  Time to start saving the Human Rights Act The original of this blog was written as rebel forces were storming Tripoli and our PM at one and the same time called for a respect for human rights there and a removal of the Human Rights Act here. And here we are again. ...

  Posted at August 22, 2011 | By : donald | Categories : Human Rights | 7 Comments

• Is the media being sexist about Celebrity Big Brother?

  Sally Bercow is a woman in her own right Well for a television programme which was supposed to have been best its sell by date and should have been put out to grass, Big Brother and in particular its Celebrity cousin (CBB), seems to be occupying an awful lot of newsprint, ...

  Posted at August 20, 2011 | By : donald | Categories : Gender and Sex | 0 Comment

• Young people and relationship abuse

  “It is not okay to slap your girlfriend.” Yesterday I received a link to a new leaflet for young people and relationship abuse. It was a timely reminder of the thousands of young people who are in relationships which are abusive, not least as many of them are heading off in ...

  Posted at August 19, 2011 | By : donald | Categories : Social Care | 0 Comment

• Beware pregnancy can lead to discrimination

  Pregnancy discrimination is still rife In a significant case yesterday a Scottish woman won her case of sex discrimination and a pay out of £29,000 from the hotel where she was demoted to being a waitress. The 26-year-old woman was demoted by management at Silverwells Hotel in Bothwell a week after informing ...

  Posted at August 19, 2011 | By : donald | Categories : Gender and Sex Discrimination | 1 Comment

• A Nivea face cream and racism

  Nivea caught up in racism claims. Last night Twitter on the other side of the pond was all ablaze with a campaign against the company Nivea. Now Nivea, for this writer, is the cream my eighty year old mother puts on her hands and certainly not something to do with racism. Yet ...

  Posted at August 18, 2011 | By : donald | Categories : Race and Ethnicity | 1 Comment