Parcoursup est-il discriminant ? C’est la question que pose Jacques Toubon, défenseur des droits, en lançant une enquête sur la plateforme. Plus...
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Arofe - La lutte contre les exclusions et les discriminations
Le Plan national de réforme (PNR) présenté en avril 2015 prône l’accès ou le retour à l’emploi comme premiers moyens de lutte contre la pauvreté et véritables garants d'une insertion sociale. Ainsi, au chapitre Amélioration du fonctionnement du marché du travail, dialogue social et formation, le Plan annonce la mise en place de la Prime d’activité. Plus...
Dossier d'actualités : Insertion et lutte contre les discriminations
Ce dossier présente une sélection d'actualités sur les politiques d'insertion et de lutte contre les discriminations, la pauvreté. Plus...
College leaders issue plea for hate crimes law
The presidents of several area higher education institutions are among the 22 college and university leaders who recently penned a public letter calling on the General Assembly to pass a hate crimes law. More...
A Japanese medical university lowered women’s test scores because it was a “necessary evil”
Tokyo Medical University for years doctored the test scores of female applicants to admit fewer women because school officials believed that once women got married and had children they would be unable to fulfill their emergency shifts at hospitals. More...
Labour’s antisemitism code
I think I understand the reasoning behind the Labour NEC’s view that if some International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance examples were in a disciplinary code it might rule out any critique of Israeli government policies. More...
Japanese Medical School Allegedly Lowered Female Applicants' Scores
By Elizabeth Redden. Tokyo Medical University reportedly lowered the entrance scores of female applicants so that women would make up under 30 percent of successful applicants. The BBC cited a report in Japan's largest daily newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, that said medical officials began lowering female applicants' scores in 2011. More...
Six-Figure Settlement in Texas Bias Suit
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. The University of Texas at Austin has agreed to a $600,000 settlement with a black former women’s track coach who sued over racial and gender discrimination. More...
Controversial UNC Chapel Hill Textbook Revised
By Colleen Flaherty. A textbook for a required fitness course at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been revised, following student complaints that it referred to cancer as a “disease of choice” and suggested that mental strength was a key to surviving the Holocaust, according to The News & Observer. Last month, when students began to publicly criticize the book as promoting questionable science, the university said it was reviewing the text for use the fall. More...