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Women are playing an increasingly important role today. In many fields of society, you can easily find lots of outstanding women. with their actions and achivements they have showed that women can almost do everthing as equally well as men. Meanwhile
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let's turn now to a related topic. Most people can acknowledge that discrimination has an insidious effect on the lives of minorities from being passed over for jobs to being shut out of desirable housing. Most people are painful
The Canadian City of Vancouver is set to deliver a formal apology later on this month for past discrimination against residents of Chinese heritage. On April 22, Mayor Gregor Robertson will deliver the apology in Chinatown to acknowledge the wrongdoi
By Lisa Bryant Paris 05 February 2007 More than half of blacks living in France say they face racial discrimination, according to the first-ever survey on the country's black population. The findings are troubling for a country that has long prided i
By Robert Raffaele Washington 24 March 2008 A new U.S. report shows many people around the world still face discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. As VOA's Robert Raffaele explains, some American advocates are calling fo
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 26 February 2007 Women's activists and government delegates from around the world are meeting at the United Nations to develop a strategy for ending discrimination and violence against girls. From U.N. headquarters, V
By Trish Anderton Jakarta 29 May 2006 Former South Korean leprosy patient, Oh Chun-duck, participates in an anti-Japan rally for having been forced to stay in isolated leprosariums during Japan's wartime colonial rule (File photo - Oct. 27, 2005) Th
Israeli Society Facing Religious Extremism, Backlash For some time now, Israeli women have been protesting against what they see as efforts by some ultra-Orthodox Jews to exclude them from public spaces. Ultra-Orthodox Jews counter it is they who are
Rights campaigners say current laws against gays are a violation of human rights Lameck Masina | Blantyre, Malawi 19 February 2010 In late December, two gay men held an engagement ceremony and were promptly arrested. The event prompted a public debat
Tens of thousands of African American farmers and Native Americans will soon receive compensation for discrimination and mismanagement they allegedly suffered at the hands of the federal government. President Barack Obama is expected to sign a $4.5 b
Gay Rights Groups Push for Anti-Discrimination Laws George Ramirez and his partner German Roa have lived together for 16 years. Now, they are allowed to marry in Maryland, after voters there endorsed a law legalizing same-sex marriage. We want the op
美国呼吁消除种族歧视 The marchers in 1965 demanded an end to discrimination against African-American voters.Scenes of police violence shocked Americans and built support for laws forbidding voter discrimination. 1965年的那场游行旨在结
NOEL KING, HOST: Imagine this - a TV show that sparks intense controversy, dozens of opinion pieces and tweets and radio segments without ever having aired, without even a single episode being written yet. That's what happened when HBO announced Game
DAVID GREENE, HOST: African-American women are more likely to lose a baby in the first year of life than women of any other race or ethnicity. Doctors and researchers have been trying to understand what makes black infants so vulnerable, and now they
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Millions of people have tried online dating or at least thought about it. Almost one third of Americans who have never been married have gone on dating apps or dating sites, according to the Pew Research Center. And a recent stud
'Mystery Shoppers' Help U.S. Regulators Fight Racial Discrimination At Banks play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:35repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or updat
A passenger jet carrying more than 100 people has crashed in the desert in northern Mali. Officials lost contact with the Air Algerie plane during a flight from Burkina Faso to the Algerian capital Algiers. Almost half the passengers are French citiz
Employment Protections for Gays Expected to Pass US Senate 参议院有望通过同性恋就业保护 CAPITOL HILL A bill to protect gay and trans-gendered Americans from workplace discrimination is expected to pass the Senate this week, but stall in
今天我们要学的词是walk the plank。 To walk the plank, 意思是被迫离任,走人。Several people had to walk the plank because of the discrimination case, 歧视诉讼案让好几个人被迫离职。The mayor was forced to walk the
The European Union is hosting its first meeting to address the problems of the Roma community, which suffers from discrimination and poverty. Lisa Bryant reports from Paris that rights groups hope it will lead to a more inclusive policy for these pe