Over the years, he's overcome struggles and discrimination to receive an education and get married.
Mr Davies said he was fully committed to positive discrimination to encourage more women to get involved in public life.
Last year a federal judge in San Francisco ruled there was enough evidence of discrimination to warrant a class-action trial.
The first requires nine states with histories of discrimination to get permission from the Justice Department for changing voting districts or procedures.
Bill Clinton is too worried about the fact that the majority of Americans dislike positive discrimination to put up much of a fight.
Having lost at the Ninth Circuit, Wal-Mart vows to take the decision certifying a massive class action over alleged sexual discrimination to the Supreme Court.
Mr. ARSALAN IFTIKHAR (National Legal Director, CAIR): Now, this ranged from everything from employment discrimination to the denial of public accommodation to airport profiling to anti-Muslim physical violence and hate crimes.
And in 1997, in the second term, the White House directed us to start a major initiative on pay discrimination to deal with the very kind of situation that was raised in the Ledbetter case.
He claimed this had created a two-tier system with some employees who were facing dismissal threatening to make claims against their employer based on gender or racial discrimination to win a larger payout.
Although Mr Fischer told the BBC News website he was disappointed BA limited its admission of sex discrimination to his case, he said his case would help any other men who faced a similar predicament.
The bench could also examine Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act - a provision that forces nine US states with a history of electoral discrimination to have all changes to voting rules first approved in Washington.
Petitioner argues that it was his civil right to reproduce, that he should have the freedom to choose the method of reproduction, and that it is sex discrimination to allow women but not men to choose how they will reproduce.
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Holder, that tests the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which requires state and local governments, primarily in the Deep South, with a history of discrimination to obtain "pre-clearance" from the Justice Department before making any changes affecting voting.
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To fight for an America defined by deep and meaningful equality -- from civil rights to labor rights, from women's rights to gay rights, from ending discrimination to promoting unionization to providing help for the most important job there is: caring for our families.
"The argument that the Obama administration has made is the Supreme Court should look at these laws very carefully because gays and lesbians are a group that have been subject to discrimination in the past and will be subject to discrimination going forward, " said Amy Howe, a legal analyst and editor of SCOTUSblog.com.
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McGowen alleged sexual harassment, failure to prevent sexual harassment, disability discrimination, failure to prevent discrimination, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and other causes of action.
Other proposals to ban live animal exports from Labour MP Gwyn Prosser and an amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act to allow single sex sporting events or clubs from Tory MP Robert Walter are unlikely to receive enough parliamentary time to become law.
"It highlights our need to tackle stigma and discrimination and to ensure vulnerable groups have equal access to care and treatment".
Ministers are seeking to use the age-discrimination legislation to send out a clear signal about the need to work longer.
This first International Day of the Girl Child is a groundbreaking moment to raise awareness about enduring discrimination and to mobilise stronger action for human rights.
They say the lower-court ruling, if allowed to stand, could expose other companies to staggering liability by allowing unrelated discrimination claims to proceed as class action suits.
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And I always tell my students that it is just as important to be able to detect the presence of discrimination as it is to detect when discrimination is NOT present.
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His opposition to racial discrimination led him to seek the university's disposal of its South African investments.
What's more, these officials would add, that desire to protect the single market and the principle of non-discrimination related to all of the economy - not just financial services.
One of the teaching points is to expose students to how discrimination is generally defined and then introduce statistical methodologies that allow one to examine whether discrimination exists within a particular environment, circumstance, or situation.
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It will set up workshops for those who have experienced discrimination and to educate employers.
Not surprisingly, age discrimination complaints to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have been climbing since the start of the recession.
The trial, which is one of the largest class-action discrimination suits to ever reach trial, is expected to last for five weeks.
"Laws covering employment and particularly discrimination tend to be less rigid in Asia, " agrees Tom Ballantyne, aviation expert and chief correspondent for Hong Kong-based "Orient Aviation" magazine.
Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "delighted" that the "principle of wearing religious symbols at work has been upheld", adding that people "shouldn't suffer discrimination due to religious beliefs".
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