Linda McCulloch, national equality officer for the Amicus union, said companies must be made to ensure "fairness and transparency" in staff pay.
Last week, I attended the Ninth Anniversary of the National Center for Transgender Equality in Washington, D.
In terms of domestic policy, Likud is promising changes to the political system, a law for equality in national military service, economic reforms and a continued focus on security.
Someone's decision to transition does not necessarily mean they are undergoing gender reassignment surgery, and in many cases they do not, said Mara Keisling, executive director of the Washington-based National Center for Transgender Equality.
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For example, in March 2012, the Secretary of State issued Policy Guidance on Promoting Gender Equality to Achieve our National Security and Foreign Policy Objectives, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator released Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy.
Would the President, based on what he said in those interviews at that time, would he embrace a national campaign to promote marriage equality?
We all have 83-year-old Edith Windsor to thank for in pushing the issue of same-sex marriage equality on to the national front.
On 7 December 2012 indeed, a Regional Conference gathering no less than 50 participants (national and international specialists in gender equality, representatives of international organizations, the academic community, governmental institutions, intergovernmental organizations, etc.) will take place in Moscow in the premises of the Russian State University for the Humanities.
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And while this Democratic convention has focused on many underlying issues--unity, equality for the middle class, national security--the overarching theme has been change.
Along with equality, Israel must safeguard its national and security interests.
Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society, said the future of equality legislation in Britain - and even Europe - could depend on the ruling.
Today, nearly half a century after Martin Luther King, Jr. led the historic March on Washington for equality, tens of thousands came to the National Mall in Washington, D.
In 1960, UNESCO adopted the Convention against Discrimination in Education, which acknowledged the crucial role of education in ensuring equality of opportunity for members of all racial, national or ethnic groups.
From Equal Futures, a multilateral initiative to break down barriers to women's political participation and economic opportunity, to our efforts to end human trafficking both home and abroad, to prioritizing women and girls in his national security strategy, our President has demonstrated his commitment to equality.
Should the Boy Scouts of America's national board adopt the proposed policy change as expected, Scouts for Equality will continue to urge local units across the nation to embrace inclusion.
As more states legalize same-sex marriage, one of the key questions the justices may be forced to address is whether a national consensus now exists supporting the idea of expanding a "marriage equality" right to homosexuals.
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How surprising then in this 21st Century, when sexual equality is a legally enforceable rule in most walks of our national life, to find that when it comes to the rules of succession to the British throne, women are the victims of the most blatant discrimination.
The National Socialists, Communists, Jacobins and other tyrants all secured power by promising handouts or espousing equality according to the latest intellectual currents.
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President Obama has made promoting gender equality and advancing the status of women and girls central to our foreign policy and national security strategy, including by leading by example at home.
The World Conference on Human Rights reaffirms the obligation of States to ensure that persons belonging to minorities may exercise fully and effectively all human rights and fundamental freedoms without any discrimination and in full equality before the law in accordance with the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities.
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