Discrimination

Time to Stop Laughing at Farage's Bad Jokes

Jemma Wayne | Posted 23.05.2013 | UK Politics
Jemma Wayne

What is sad, and a tad frightening, are the undeniable gains that Ukip has recently made in membership and in elections. Despite the party's claims to want to protect Britain, what Ukip represents is not the deeply ingrained British values of liberty and equality, but actually, everything opposite to that.

Fit For Work Test 'Actively Discriminates Against People With Mental Health Problems'

Huffington Post UK | Posted 22.05.2013 | UK

The government's 'fit for work' test actively discriminates against those with mental health problems, a judge has ruled, in a verdict described as a ...

A Quarter Of Gay People Have Been Physically Attacked

The Huffington Post UK | Tom Moseley | Posted 17.05.2013 | UK

A quarter of gay people in European Union nations have been physically attacked, according to the biggest ever survey of its kind. Released to mark...

'Combination Of Sexism And Ageism'

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 16.05.2013 | UK

Older women are barely visible on TV because of a "combination of ageism and sexism", it has been claimed. New figures released by Labour deputy le...

Student Conference-Gate.

Aisling Gallagher | Posted 09.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Aisling Gallagher

Throughout the UK, our students' unions democratic structures are being attacked, more often by their university rather than their elected student officers. It's time to tell QUBSU that they can't simply ignore the rules.

The World is Focusing on Women's Issues While Happily Ignoring Men's

Claire-Louise Meadows | Posted 09.05.2013 | UK
Claire-Louise Meadows

Journalist Peter Lloyd recently hit the headlines when he revealed he was suing his local gym, the Kentish Town Sports Centre in North London, on the grounds of gender bias. Lloyd was incensed that the venue, owned by the fitness company Better, in association with Camden Council - was banning men and boys for 442 hours every year to make way for 'women-only' sessions.

Suit Up - The Rise of the Modern Gentleman

Amma Brown | Posted 25.04.2013 | UK Style
Amma Brown

As time goes by, masculinity continues to be defined by the rituals of the past, and as the concept of a 'refined man' becomes ever more popular, it is safe to say that the 'gentleman' is back and here to stay. From pocket scarves to polished brogues, new has never looked so old - and so damn good.

French Court Ruling Reignites 'Laicite' Vs Headscarf Debate

Myriam Francois-Cerrah | Posted 17.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Myriam Francois-Cerrah

France's distinctive take on secularism is once again making headlines. A sacred virtue of the ‎Republic, it is unquestionable within the hexagon where political careers are built on its defence. ‎But a recent case is causing controversy.

Maternity Discrimination on the Rise as Women Pay the Price of Austerity

Myriam Francois-Cerrah | Posted 13.05.2013 | UK Politics
Myriam Francois-Cerrah

A report released today by the group Working ‎Families has revealed high levels of maternity discrimination for the third year running, ‎reinforcing recent research suggesting this is a growing trend. ‎

Pregnant Women Face Discrimination At Work

PA | Posted 13.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle

Maternity discrimination is a growing problem in the workplace, with employers' attitudes "hardening" against pregnant women, according to new researc...

Will the New 'Personal Independence Payment' Actually Deprive Disabled People of Their Independence?

Rob Atkinson | Posted 28.04.2013 | UK Politics
Rob Atkinson

The feeling out there right now appears to be one of near panic, with a hideous sense of insecurity over what plans are being drawn up to dump the chronically sick and disabled on the scrapheap of dependence upon others, in the name, ostensibly, of prudent public spending.

The Government Needs to Stop Discriminating Against the Poor

Layla Haidrani | Posted 19.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Layla Haidrani

In a period of grave economic downturn, why is the current government making everyday life more difficult for poorer families?

It's Time to Talk, It's Time to Change

Paul Scates | Posted 15.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Paul Scates

With one in four people going through a mental health problem in any given year, it's more than likely that you already know someone with a mental health problem. If you know someone experiencing one why not take the time to talk, listen or even ask them how they're feeling?

NHS Services for Everyone?

Lewis Shepherd | Posted 08.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Lewis Shepherd

Recently I received a survey through the post; apparently out of all the people who live in my area I was selected at random despite the fact my partn...

Legislation for Positive Discrimination Would Be an Admission of Failure of Leadership

Penny de Valk | Posted 03.04.2013 | UK Politics
Penny de Valk

The distinction between voluntary involvement and enforced quotas is a very important one. Though well-intentioned, the introduction of quotas can lead to accusations of tokenism, and create resentment and tension amongst the workforce - in particular given the implication that positive discrimination in favour of one group will inevitably result in negative discrimination against another.

All-Party Electoral Conduct Inquiry: The Rationale

John Mann | Posted 31.03.2013 | UK Politics
John Mann

Part of the problem in investigating electoral conduct is that it is broadly unquantifiable.

World Leprosy Day 2013: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Stigma

Veronique Mistiaen | Posted 21.01.2013 | UK
Veronique Mistiaen

This Sunday was World Leprosy Day 2013, but few people are likely to take notice. Few might even know that leprosy still exists today. But it does: it affects more than 15 million people across the world and each year nearly a quarter of a million new cases are detected: that is almost one person diagnosed every two minutes - the time to read this blog post.

Working to End Discrimination

Yohei Sasakawa | Posted 26.03.2013 | UK
Yohei Sasakawa

Discrimination comes in many different forms - but the discrimination we are addressing in London today concerns a disease, leprosy, which goes back to biblical times and, until the early 1980s, was - like HIV AIDs - thought to be incurable.

Global Nationality Review: The Real Human Cost of Discriminatory Laws

Jacqui Hunt | Posted 22.03.2013 | UK
Jacqui Hunt

A new worldwide report by Equality Now demands that nationality and citizenship laws, which discriminate on the basis of sex, should be urgently revised in line with international legal obligations

An Extraordinary Act of Solidarity

Noam Schimmel | Posted 17.12.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Noam Schimmel

William Cooper, an Aboriginal elder of the Yorta Yorta tribe in Australia led a march to the German consulate in Melbourne in December of 1938 to protest Germany's persecution of the Jews.

Strangely Enough, Equal Rights Have to Be Equal

Ralph Jones | Posted 11.02.2013 | UK Politics
Ralph Jones

In 250 years, when this country will have either loosened or entirely relinquished the moronic grasp of organised religion, how do you think this issue will be chronicled in the history books: as a crucial battle for the inalienable rights of homosexuals, or as the period in which the Church bravely stood up tall against the immorality of a sinful nation?

World AIDS Day: Why Stigma Must Not be the Barrier to Tackling HIV Worldwide

Lynne Featherstone | Posted 30.01.2013 | UK Politics
Lynne Featherstone

We've come a long way in the fight to tackle HIV in developing countries - UK aid is helping to prevent 500,000 new HIV infections by 2015 in women through a range of prevention programmes. But there's still the hurdle of reaching people who are marginalised from the services they need and most at risk of infection.

Nick Griffin's 'right to discriminate'

James Woods | Posted 23.12.2012 | UK Politics
James Woods

While I support the right to free speech and feel that should be protected from the street to the World Wide Web, I believe we have no right to discriminate against anyone for any matter, especially when it can effect the discriminated and inflame stereotypes further, which only holds back the positive progression of society and humanity.

Christian B&B Owner Denies Beds To Gay And Unmarried Couples

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 18.10.2012 | UK

A Christian bed and breakfast owner who refused to allow a gay couple to share a room at her Berkshire hotel must pay more than £3,000 in compensatio...

The French Fixation With Image and Appearance Cannot be Excused as Cultural Idiosyncrasy

Joe Lennard | Posted 15.12.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Joe Lennard

As I enter a rapid descent towards my finals and subsequent graduation, I have started asking myself the inevitable questions about what I plan to do next. A truthful response would be is "Not a clue" or perhaps more realistically, "whatever I can get".