Human Rights Discrimination

Discrimination is when someone has a bias opinion on a specific crowd of people due to their race, sex, religion, or order of rank. This basically goes hand in hand with the phrase judging a book by its cover meaning the person with the negative opinion will not give the other individual a fair chance for the reason being they are being stereotypical and not thinking of the other person’s talent, or character. A modern day example of discrimination would be if a male employer were to compensate a female employee a lower pay due to her gender. At some time in everyone’s life due to today society, we have all been victimized by discrimination. Whether it may be a dirty look from a random person, or the way you dress, talk, and even look.

Before and during the Civil Rights Movement, African Americans were severely discriminated against. Black people did not have equal rights as white people; this included the right to vote, schooling, employment, or the right to go to certain public places (Nguyen, n.d.). “Everything they did was limited and controlled,” states Amanda Nguyen in her article, Racism in North America, Then and Now (n.d.). Now though, all blacks have the same rights as whites do. They can vote, receive an education, get a job, and more. There are even organizations and laws that have been formed to work against discrimination against, and unequal treatment of, people of color (Nguyen, n.d.). According to Nguyen in Racism in North America, Then and Now, The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Human Rights legislation, and hate laws are all evidence of this change

Discrimination has been a big thing for a long time now. Discrimination is the different treatments of categories for people or things. People get discriminated every day for their skin color and the laws passed from it. The Supreme Court has changed many decisions about discrimination: Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, and Regents of the University of California.

The clear message for fighting racism is a plain lesson we first learn in elementary schools and in our own individual families, treat everyone as your own and as your equal. Racism is not an external occurrence it is hate behavior that is taught and widely accepted today. To fight racism, we should look to the person in front of us, behind us, to the right and to left every time as equals and as a

In today’s time people have notice the spread of violence and constitutional controversy across the United States. People are beginning to feel betrayed by the political leaders we like to call the government. Discrimination is a problem that many people come across in everyday life. Discrimination is an action that denies social participation or human rights to categories of people based on prejudice. The most known types of the discrimination people face today include race, religion and sexual orientation. (U.S Employment) Race discrimination includes someone treating another unfairly because he/she is of a certain race.

Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. Blacks are constantly discriminated because of their skin color and are stereotype into criminals and gangbangers. Which predisposed other races to view them as criminal this is why discrimination must come to an end.

Discrimination can be defined as the differential treatment or judgment against a group such as class status, nationality, religion, etc. There are several reasons why people may think people of color are "bad" and get discriminated against more then those who are White or Asian. Maybe it is because for every three colored men at least one will serve a prison sentence. Many studies target those with colored skin because they were the first kind of people to go to a jail. Continuing, there are several kind different forms of discrimination (institutionalized, systematic, contextual, and individual acts of discrimination). First, the institutionalized information is based on the criminal record or behavior. Second, the systematic is discrimination in the criminal justice system. Third, the contextual information is based on particular crimes. Lastly, individual acts of discrimination is based the acts of the individual. Discrimination is revealed to the individual in many different aspects and treatment received based on group affiliation such as nationality, classes status, and much more. For example, in law enforcement they see a woman down a street known where prostitutes are. What the police officer does not know if the woman is coming from a bar, and she is walking home. The police officer pulls over, stops her, and arrests

The question remains even though racism continue to a an impact on other people’s lives what,what can we do about it? Well, no one person can do it all or do it alone but we can all help and work collectively to end

What is discrimination? Some times people don't know when they are discriminating someone. Being discriminated hurts its victims deep in there personal life. Even though not everyone experiences discrimination, it has been going on for along time. African Americans who are being discriminated against might feel bad about who they are, and stoping it will probably take longer than we can imagine.

As Reverend “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr”. showed us in his life’s work to end racism, we can act to bring people of all races together as we peacefully demonstrate a love for humanity. Three actions we can take to end the violence of racism are equal, speak up, and education. Martin Luther King Jr. wants us to speak up for each other. “We must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.”

Individually I will take it upon myself to start a conversation with my peers and family members about the topic. I want to be able to express my thoughts and how others do the same. Giving everyone a fair chance at stating his or her views with one another. Locally their needs to be an organization committed to bring awareness and education to others that don’t understand social construction of race and ethnicity. Having different individuals organized an event to educate the community about their race and ethnicity. Nationally we need to accept that United States did wrong by discriminating against minority groups when they arrived. Being honest to their mistakes and making changes to help the minority groups they harmed. As a nation we

One thing we can do is personally taking action by volunteering at anti-discrimination agencies and also by making sure that you don’t discriminate against others. One antidiscrimination agency that targets racial discrimination in particular is YWCA agency, which tries to eliminate this injustice by raising awareness through the Stand Against Racism, which is an annual event that invites organizations across the U.S. to host their own “stand” against racism. This is a great agency since it holds annual awareness events and it also allows others to join and learn more about discrimination and also do their part to try eliminating discrimination. Since in 2013 “Over 300,000 people took a Stand Against Racism” (Stand Against Racism), I believe that by the time the 2014 annual event it held there will be more people and discrimination will greatly diminish. Another agency is the UNESCO which “contributes to the fight against racism and discrimination through research, normative instruments, and operational programmers and projects” (Fight Against Discrimination). Since man y new forms of discrimination have arisen I believe that this organization will be able to diminish especially since they have already started to take action in many different ways. Like in 2001 they decided to convene the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa so like this

What is discrimination? Discrimination is treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit (dictionary.com,2010). In America, there has been many cases of discrimination from both the past and present. Statistics shows that 49% of African American and 11% of Hispanic feel a great deal of discrimination.(Episcopal News Service,2013) Discrimination and racism has some great similarities when it comes to the way people were treated and still being treated in today’s time. So, racism will be mentioned frequently. Therefore, I will discuss the difference between

What are you seeing on the news every day? Syrian refugees are being rejected, America travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries, police brutality towards black people, etc. Racism is quickly becoming the most stressful and alarming problem. As a student in a unique place like APU, where diversity is respected, this is the problem that easily gains my interest, curiosity, and anger at the same time. In my opinion, racism is simply a broader term for excluding people who don’t share the same values and ideas. However, with various multi-cultural organizations such as ALRCS, Workshop TA, and FLAG, I’ve gone through lots of conflicts and thus realized that difference in ideas is crucial to producing the best results. From such experiences,

Currently there are no concrete federal statutes or provisions concerning employment based on gender identity or on gender expression. However, prohibiting discrimination based on sex as documented in Title VII can be used as a means of defense for transgender individuals Although, there is not a federal law or statue prohibiting it effect now does not mean that there will not be one in the future. Furthermore, Executive Order 13672 prohibits by President Obama in July of 2014 prohibits federal and private sectors from obtaining contracts from gender expression based discrimination ( There have also been proposals to Amend sections of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act pertaining to prohibiting sex based discrimination to include sexual orientation, sexual preference and gender identity Although Title VII and Executive Order 13672 are useful for the LGBTQ community it does not mean there will not be other hurdles that need to be addressed to accomplish the main objective.