Discrimination

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines—Three Filipino transsexuals have sued the government for discriminating against gays before the United Nations, it was revealed in a forum at the University of the Philippines-Baguio last week.Lawyer Evalyn Ursua, who represents Naomi Fontanos, Juliana Marian Giessel and Rio Moreno, said her clients still carried Philippine passports that identified them as males,…

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – Human rights violations committed by the government and private parties against transgender Filipinos may soon be subject to international legal censure and corrective measures, if activists and lawyers succeed in getting the attention of the United Nations, pro-gay advocates said Saturday.

AFP – The World Health Organisation published Tuesday new global guidelines for expanding AIDS treatment, focusing for the first time on homosexuals, who face discrimination in many countries.

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HIGH LEVELS of unemployment intensifies discriminatory practices in the workplace as workers scramble to make do with available jobs, labor experts warned. Jorge V. Sibal, dean of the University of the Philippines School of Labor and Industrial Relations (UP SOLAIR), said the high number of jobless Filipinos has made employers more selective in the hiring…

CEBU, Philippines – Individuals with Human Immuno-deficiency Virus, transgenders and homosexuals are being harassed and maligned for being different and for being HIV positive, but they are fighting against it.

JERSEY CITY, NJ – Jersey City resident Esther Winkley has been a housekeeper for New York’s rich and famous for 25 years.

According to the ILO’s global report on discrimination “Equality at work: The continuing challenge”, significant progress has been made in recent decades in advancing gender equality in the world of work. However, the gender pay gap still exists, with women’s wages representing between 70-90 per cent of wages earned by their male counterparts. Jordan has…

According to the ILO’s new global report on discrimination worldwide, the challenge for enhancing the employability of people with disabilities and HIV/AIDS is significant. Promoting the rights of vulnerable groups, such as workers with HIV/AIDS or disabilities, is therefore among the major areas of focus of the ILO. A good example is its Opportunity for…

MANILA, Philippines –  Seventeen senators have signed a committee report on similar bills filed by Senate President Pro-Tempore Jinggoy Estrada and Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago banning the specification of gender preference in job advertisements.

In today’s Gospel incident, Christ broke through the triple discrimination tradition of His times: gender, race, and religion (Jn. 4: 5-42). Again, He insisted through His own example that when everything is said and done, LOVE is the one and only law of God for all mankind. In fact, love is precisely the very opposite…

THE number of Filipino women in senior management positions fell at its fastest pace for over seven years partly because of the economic crisis, according to Grant Thornton’s International Business Report (IBR).

Last week, we started identifying “gender insensitive” crimes punished under the Revised Penal Code (RPC). I received a kind text from former Cadiz City Mayor Bing Guanzon congratulating me for writing about the issue. She said this was timely given the 100th anniversary of the International Woman’s Day which we will be celebrating on Tuesday,…

Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada moved to institutionalize measures assuring equal employment opportunities for all regardless of gender.

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Kaplan Higher Education, a division of the Washington Post Co., was sued in federal court in Cleveland by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Philadelphia office over claims that the company rejected job applicants based on credit history, a decision that discriminated by race.

A Philippines lawmaker has called on President Benigno Aquino III to make ending discrimination against GLBT Filipinos a priority for his Government.

DAVAO CITY — Vice-Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte is crafting an ordinance that seeks to put an end to discrimination against marginalized groups in the city.

A six month ban ‘is not’ something that ILO promotes, because migrant workers may be exposed to certain unfair conditions, Tim De Meyer said. A senior specialist for the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said that the six month ban established by Macau’s new imported labour law could be “a case of discrimination” for migrant…

THE Catholic Church is alarmed with the arrest and detention of 14 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) for participating in a Christian worship in Saudi Arabia. This was after Migrante Middle East (ME) appealed to the government to help the 14 OFWs arrested by the Saudi cultural police for participating in a Christian worship.

MANILA, Philippines – A deaf person will file a discrimination case before the Commission of Human Rights (CHR) after an airport immigration officer prevented him from boarding his flight to Qatar.

September was a rough month for LGBT America. Admittedly, there were two major victories regarding the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy: First, Judge Victoria Phillips ruled that the military’s policy violated constitutional rights to free speech and due process. Then, three weeks later, another judge ordered the military to reinstate an officer who had been…

MANILA, Philippines – Members of a labor union at the Philippine Airlines (PAL) on Monday lodged complaints of gender discrimination and ill treatment of female flight attendants against the beleaguered airline company, calling for the abolition of these erratic policies.

I am back after a short absence, since I have retired from teaching and I am now working for an international development organization. I would like to publicize Ang Ladlad’s stand on separate toilets, an ordinance filed by a Provincial Board Member in Cebu.

A much higher percentage of women than men feel that women don’t get equal pay for doing the exact same job – a finding that is echoed by similar sentiments over promotions, flex-time benefits and even loans, according to a recent poll from Harris Interactive. There is also a notable difference of generational opinion on…

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s leading supermarket chain has broken the country’s strict taboo on women working in public with a pilot program of women cashiers, a company official said.

Filipino maids working in Hong Kong are being sacked by employers angry over the deadly hostage crisis in the Philippines, a news report said Wednesday.

SAN FRANCISCO — The California Nurses Association has sued a San Francisco hospital, claiming discrimination because, it says, its managers are refusing to hire Filipino nurses.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is drafting new labor policies to protect the rights of women and homosexuals in work places.

Last week, Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker issued his long-anticipated decision in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8.  In a sweeping and stirring opinion, Judge Walker found that the evidence and arguments advanced by Prop 8’s supporters were so insubstantial that California’s denial of same-sex marriage was irrational.