Many of those who survive face discrimination, prejudice, violence and neglect all their lives, as single or married women.
Supporters of a new equality body say it can help people who face discrimination on for more than one reason.
People living with HIV bear the burden of having a highly stigmatized disease and they regularly face discrimination simply on the basis of their health status.
They also face discrimination in pay in these informal jobs.
Many of them, despite their significant contribution to the economy and to the society of the United States, still live in the shadows and, occasionally, as in Arizona, they even face discrimination.
As consumers demand new ways to listen to music using the latest technology, we need to update the laws to ensure that new competitors do not face discrimination as they enter the marketplace.
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Barriers to finding work include the fact that people with a visual impairment are less likely to hold educational qualifications, while they also face discrimination by employers, and a lack of awareness of help available.
Mary Keane, who is openly gay and has fostered more than 12 children, six of whom she legally adopted, said she had long considered becoming a foster parent but wasn't sure if she would face discrimination.
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As the New York Times pointed out in this carefully researched piece last summer, unemployed people face discrimination from employers who prefer to hire people who are working or who have just recently been laid off.
Millions of immigrant workers, he says, face constant petty discrimination and have little recourse to justice.
Dr. HUDSON: Currently, doctors are alerting their patients to the risks that they face of genetic discrimination.
Headlines in Europe this month have highlighted the continent's worst, and most ill-managed social problem: the treatment of millions of Romanies who face at best discrimination and at worst persecution.
Aside from the likes of CAIR activists who get red in the face over imagined discrimination against Muslims for a living, no American constituency exists to support anti-blasphemy legislation, not even on the right- or left-wing lunatic fringes.
What a shame that aspiring young women who already face ample challenges of discrimination, stereotyping and glass ceilings still have to contend with these Neanderthal views.
It will be against the law for insurance companies to deny you coverage for preexisting conditions. (Applause.) And that change alone will help us end the discrimination women face in our health care system.
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Throughout America and around the world, many transgender people face bullying, harassment, discrimination, and violence.
Others said it just exacerbates the discrimination people already face when they are unemployed.
Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation?
On its face, the notion of stiffening punishment when discrimination is involved may seem fair enough.
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But we do tend to understand that without its unique ability to level the playing field, groups that still experience discrimination, including women, will continue to face obstacles in gaining full equality.
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