News tagged with 'discrimination'. Found 3 tagged news.
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Racial Profiling or Sobriety Checkpoint?
San Rafael :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
Posted by
LauraLS 
San Rafael police have begun to set up sobriety checkpoints in the Canal District in San Rafael California--an area known for its extremely high concentation of hispanic people. Police officials maintain that they choose locations based on hit and run,...
Tags: immigration, profiling, DUI Checkpoint, discrimination, sobriety checkpoint
Extra Airline Ticket for Extra Pounds
Dallas :: TX :: USA | 5 months ago
Posted by
LauraLS
As national obesity levels continue to rise, Southwest employees have heard more complaints about larger passengers taking up more than their reserved seat. For 26 out of 35 years of operation, Southwest-like other airlines-has had a policy...
Tags: Obesity, Southwest, Discrimination, Air Canada, Airlines
Remnants of ethnic cleansing policies within Balkan States continue to perpetuate refugee woes
Belgrade :: Serbia | 5 months ago
Posted by
amymiller
International Refugee Day is today, June 20th and once again Serbia tops the chart of having the highest refugees within Europe. The United Nations High Commission on Refugees 2007 Global Report states that there are approximately 97’000 refugees...
Tags: Refugee, Serbia, Europe, United Nations, UNHCR, displaced, Croatia, Balkan, discrimination, amnesty, ustasha, Nazi, asylum seeker, EU, Refugees
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