Israel established positive discrimination mechanisms.

Introduce positive discrimination in the event of equal qualifications for management positions.

If anything at all, there was positive discrimination in favour of women.

Affirmative action, or positive discrimination, as some have called these policies, began with university admissions.

Owing to gender inequality, HIV positive women are stigmatized, which trigger further discrimination and violence.

Stigma and discrimination against HIV positive women subjected them to further violations of their human rights.

The protesters are demanding jobs, development and positive discrimination in favor of marginalized and impoverished regions like Kasserine.

A positive action for both would be for both sectors to support a comprehensive piece of legislation such as a Sex Discrimination Act or a Sexual Harassment Bill making illegal both direct and indirect discrimination.

Section 33 (4) of the country's Constitution, which banned discrimination on the ground of gender, was positive but did not go far enough.

So hopefully everything has been positive, positive, positive, more positive.

(i) encourages the implementation of anti discrimination policies and awareness raising activities aimed at combating institutionalized discrimination and at promoting the positive aspects of a diverse society and interaction between refugees, the local population, civil society and refugee organizations

(i) encourages the implementation of anti discrimination policies and awareness raising activities aimed at combating institutionalized discrimination and at promoting the positive aspects of a diverse society and interaction between refugees, the local population, civil society and refugee organizations

Positive aspects The Committee notes with satisfaction the enactment of new legislation containing anti discrimination provisions, including the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Positive aspects The Committee notes with satisfaction the State party's ratification, in 2002, of the International Labour Organization Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111).

The second factor is the classic French Republican rejection of, and legal norms against, any form of affirmative action, or positive discrimination, even of the most inoffensive kind.

A network of women living with HIV AIDS was formed in Honduras to end stigma and discrimination against HIV positive women and help them reintegrate into their families.

The Netherlandsa and Habassi v. Denmark,b in which it was established that States parties have a positive obligation to take effective action against reported incidents of racial discrimination.

But many people drew the wrong conclusion from the episode, which they viewed as affirming the idea that competence and experience must always trump ill conceived ideas about positive discrimination.

She said that, while article 10 of the Constitution did not explicitly mention positive discrimination, it assigned the Government specific responsibility for ensuring equality between men and women in practice.

Taking positive measures for the elimination of discriminations mainly against women for the effective implementation of the principle of gender equality in all sectors, far from constituting discrimination, constitutes an obligation.

The Spanish administration has also promoted gender based positive discrimination by approving gender equality legislation in 2007 aimed at providing equality between genders in Spanish political and economic life (Gender Equality Act).

As it is not simple to prove discrimination, the solution offered by domestic legislation was to shift the burden of proving unfounded gender based differing to the employer this has shown positive results.

With this provision, any deviations from the principle of gender equality were eliminated and the responsibility of the State to take special positive measures for the elimination of any discrimination against women was established.

Stay positive.

Positive aspects

Like the prohibition of fine tuned data without which positive discrimination is in any case impossible affirmative action is seen as damaging to the Republican model because it is based on recognition of ethnic differences.

In the resettlement context, where HIV testing is undertaken, protection problems also arose in camps where applicants who were rejected were often assumed to be HIV positive and faced ostracism and discrimination as a result.

It also stresses that respect for customary law and practices should not be ensured through a general exception to the principle of non discrimination, but should rather be implemented through positive recognition of cultural rights.

But if everyone gets positive, I will get the energy to stay positive.

It extends the law on discrimination to indirect discrimination.

racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and all forms of discrimination

Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and all forms of discrimination

Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and all forms of discrimination

The Sex Discrimination Act 1984 makes sex discrimination illegal.

racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and all forms of discrimination

Despite the fact that the law introduces some sort of positive discrimination, employers have often marginalized workingwomen, and at the time of privatization and restructuring of most enterprises, women are the first targets of retrenchment measures.

Mr. D'ALIA (Italy) said that efforts were being made to broaden legislation on gender equality, and in the area of participation in public life, measures would be taken to introduce positive discrimination in favour of women.

I'm HIV positive.

Some Positive Initiatives

Discrimination

The Workplace Relations Act 1996, the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 and the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999 combine to provide a positive framework within which women's participation in the labour force is supported.

Studies show that the act of communicating positive events was associated with increased positive affect and well being (beyond the impact of the positive event itself).

Since 95 of them will test positive, there will be, on average, 475 positive tests.

(3) strong, positive multilingual and multicultural identity and positive attitudes towards self and others and

Positive aspects The Committee notes with appreciation the information provided by the delegation on the execution of a national plan of action on the follow up to the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.