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Legal threat over police searches
...and Wales are continuing to use the powers "disproportionately" against ethnic minorities, a review by the Equality and Human Rights Commission concluded. Black and Asians being...
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Now 'sexism' in gyms is banned as health clubs that warn women not to lift heavy weights face prosecution
...who warn women not to lift heavy weights could be prosecuted under new equality laws. Legislation set out under Harriet Harman's forthcoming Equality Bill says that insinuating a...
"We see this as a continuation or intensification of a crackdown on dissent that started in 2007," said Hossam Bahgat, director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a nonpartisan human rights organization in Cairo.
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Ad says 'workers must speak Polish'
...because the health and safety training is all done in Polish." Neil Kinghan, director general of the Equality and Human Rights Commission said: "Any refusal to register an applicant...
American treasures on chopping block
As Hillary Rodham Clinton was leaving the White House, she asked Laura Bush, first lady to first lady, to continue one program if nothing else - the historic preservation program Save...
Cynthia Nixon receives award from gay organization
...to Nixon, who in 2009 announced at a gay marriage rally that she and her education activist girlfriend were engaged. She won the Vito Russo Award, named for the late gay activist and film...
Ohio opponents would fight ACORN attempt to return
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ??? The community organizing group ACORN is not expressly prohibited from returning to Ohio under a settlement reached in a lawsuit that claimed it used fraudulent...
Lesbian sgt. discharged after police tell military
...MANDATORY CREDIT. KOTA BUG MAY NOT BE CROPPED OUT Former Air Force sergeant Jene (jeh-NAY') Newsome says she played by the rules. She never told anyone in the military that she was a...
Catholic Hospitals Support Health Care Bill
...support health care bill A group representing Catholic hospitals is rallying behind President Barack Obama's health care bill. Support from the Catholic Health Association could...
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Japan coastguard inspects whaler with arrested activist
...anti-whaling activist who is under arrest for trespassing on the vessel in the Antarctic Ocean last month. Peter Bethune, a member of the militant Sea Shepherd Conservation Society,...
EEOC: NYC wronged Arabic-language principal
NEW YORK -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that the New York City Education Department discriminated against the founding principal of an Arabic-language school who...
Court says thimerosal did not cause autism
WASHINGTON -- The vaccine additive thimerosal is not to blame for autism, a special federal court ruled Friday in a long-running battle by parents convinced there is a connection. While...
States scramble after high court election ruling
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of decades-old campaign spending limits gives states scant time to face an election-year dilemma: brace for a flood of new money in...
