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Discrimination

Discrimination is treatment or consideration of a person based on a category to which the person is perceived to belong. These include age, race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, disability and ethnicity.

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NPD

Neo-Nazi NPD party suffers European legal defeat

The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed the claims of the National Democratic Party of Germany.
PoliticsOctober 27, 2016
Island Proteste wegen Gender Pay Gap

Icelandic women take a stand

Iceland is in many ways a model country in matters of feminism. Yet here, too, women earn less than men.
SocietyOctober 26, 2016
African origin migrant who tried to go to European countries illegally are seen after being caught in Tripoli, Libya

Tackling racism at the EU level

In the wake of the refugee crisis, racism - particularly against black Europeans - is on the rise in Europe.
SocietyOctober 25, 2016
Asia Bibi, in Pakistan für Blasphemie zum Tode verurteilt

A test case for Pakistan

The Supreme Court is set to hear the final appeal against the execution of Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death.
Human RightsOctober 12, 2016
An old woman waits in a small shop in Cameroon

Elderly Cameroonians fight discrimination

Marking the International Day of the Older Person, some of Cameroon's oldest citizens share the secrets of a long life.
SocietySeptember 30, 2016
Women with headscarves in Berlin

Study: Muslim women face bias in German job market

A German study has found that female applicants who wear headscarves have a harder time landing job interviews.
September 20, 2016
A picture of the Balkanik festival in Romania

Inside Europe: Balkanik festival teaches integration

Alexa Juvina reports on the festival in Bucharest which helps teach festival-goers about acceptance and belonging.
CultureSeptember 15, 201606:44 min
Symbolbild Roma in Europa

Prejudice against Sinti, Roma common in Europe

The OSCE says prejudice and discrimination against Sinti and Roma are widespread in today's Europe.
September 8, 2016
Niqab

Contentious niqab ban

A German court has ruled that a student can't wear her niqab to class. Some herald the decision, but others condemn it.
August 23, 2016
US: Milwaukee

Milwaukee mayor imposes curfew

Milwaukee has imposed a curfew on teenagers to quell protests after police killed a black man over the weekend.
August 15, 2016
Sharon Dodua Otoo Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis 2016, Copyright: picture-alliance/APA/G. Eggenberge

'As a Black person in a white society I can have an impact'

A Londoner in Berlin, writer Sharon Dodua Otoo tackles the tough questions of identity politics in her work.
July 6, 2016
Symbolbild Homo-Ehe

Law sanctioning discrimination struck down

US judge blocks Mississippi law allowing the denial of services to same-sex couples on personal religious grounds.
July 1, 2016
Hautkrankheit Hände im Wasser Vitiligo Jordanien

World in Progress: Fighting Stigma

Helping Vitiligo patients - Nairobi's smokers - Women rangers fight poachers - African-Canadian policewoman
BusinessJune 29, 201630:00 min

World in Progress: Smoking in Kenya

In Kenya, strict anti-smoking laws in public places make smokers feel unwelcome.
BusinessJune 29, 201604:27 min

Britain Profits from EU Labor Laws

Part time and flexible work - British employees have those rights with their EU membership.
BusinessJune 22, 201602:54 min
Two people hang a sign promoting the demonstration

Germans rally against racism

Everyone has the right 'to live a life fit for a human being,' organizers said in a statement.
June 19, 2016
Albino United Football Club training in Tanzania (Photo: AFP)

Africa's albinos: 'Don't hide!'

How Africans with albinism are fighting against predjudice.
June 13, 201610 images

India must act against Afrophobia

The Indian government's response to violence against Africans in the country has been embarrassing, writes Shivam Vij.
May 31, 2016
The names of various residents next to doorbells

Discrimination in Germany's housing market

Germany's antidiscrimination law effectively allows property owners to discriminate against renters. DW explains.
May 30, 2016

Inside Europe: Tolerance campaigns in France

Since the November terrorist attacks in France there's been an increase in anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim acts. Experts say communicating against intolerance is needed more than ever in France, where the Council of Europe says hate speech has become commonplace. In recent weeks the authorities have released campaigns to fight hate speech and workplace discrimination. Lisa Bryant reports from Paris.
May 19, 201606:32 min
Billboard in France, targeting racism (photo: NPR/Eleanor Beardsley)

Taking on racism

French authorities have rolled out their first campaigns to fight racism and anti-Semitism. Elizabeth Bryant reports.
May 19, 2016
two men holding hands

Germany to annul past convictions of gay men

German men convicted on the basis of a 19th century law criminalizing homosexuality now have a chance at justice.
May 11, 2016
German authorities shipping migrants back to Tunisia

German activists decry attacks on Christians

Muslim migrants discriminate against religious minorities in German refugee centers, a Christian group has said.
May 9, 2016
Europäischer Gerichtshof für Menschenreche

Court: Turkey discriminates against Alevis

The European Court of Human Rights rules that the right to freedom of religion is not upheld for Alevis in Turkey.
April 26, 2016
Follow the Hashtag - Unfair and Lovely

Fighting racist beauty ideals

A new hashtag is encouraging women all over the world to post selfies and celebrate their dark skin tone.
Digital WorldMarch 24, 201602:41 min
Kambodscha Bildungsangebote für ethnische Minderheiten Chhean Srey Meth Schülerin

Multilingual education Cambodia's multilingual education

Cambodia's long-marginalized indigenous populations are steadily gaining more opportunities to learn.
March 11, 2016
Mothers nurse their babies during a flash mob protest to promote breastfeeding (photo: EPA/LAURENT GILLIERON +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++)

Row over breastfeeding

A woman who says she wasn't allowed to breastfeed her baby in a cafe has started a petition for a nursing law.
February 24, 2016
Lufthansa Pilot Uniform

Flight safety or discrimination?

Germany's Federal Labor Court rules on the case of an aspiring female pilot deemed too short to fly.
February 17, 2016
australische Aborigine

Grant: 'The Australian Dream remains outside our grasp'

Stan Grant gave a speech about discrimination against Aboriginal people that many call a 'Martin Luther King moment'.
January 31, 2016
Eröffnung jüdisches Bildungszentrum

Germany highlights fight against discrimination

Germany's top diplomat has used a day of mourning for Holocaust victims to recall the menace of discriminination today.
January 27, 2016
Bornheim

On refugee bans, fuzzy facts but clear law

Discrimination on the basis of ethnicity is illegal in Germany. But some businesses say they have no choice.
January 26, 2016
Members of various student organisations being taken into police custody during a protest, demanding to sack the Vice Cencellor of Hyderabad Central University against the death of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit

Students protest caste discrimination

Protests have rocked several cities across India following the suicide of a student in the southern city of Hyderbad.
SocietyJanuary 22, 201606:48 min
Syrian women and children in a displacement camps in Lebanon

Syrian women struggle in exile

Syrian women suffer from abuse in the workplace and at home as they struggle to support their families in exile.
December 21, 2015
Kuwait Airways Fluggesellschaft Schriftzug Flugzeug

Kuwait to end New York flights after row

Kuwait Airways is to stop flights between New York and London after legal action was threatened over its Israeli policy
December 19, 2015
Some 590,000 refugees and migrants have arrived in Greece this year.

World in Progress: Refugee crisis in Greece

Eliminating ciolence against women - Teaching Indian boys to respect women - Coping with the refugee crisis in Greece
November 25, 201529:59 min
The Roma Quarter in Belgrad

No way out for deported Balkan Roma

Seeking asylum in Germany was for years a temporary way out of misery for Serbian Roma. No longer.
November 4, 2015

World in Progress: Roma leaving Prague

Roma are increasingly forced to leave traditional neighborhoods in Prague, Czech republic.
October 7, 201507:01 min

World in Progress: Minorities in Europe

World in Progress talks to minorities expert Raul Carstocea from the European center for minority issues.
October 7, 201507:28 min
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@dwnews: #Yplus2015, a beauty pageant with no discrimination

September 18, 201503:18 min
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#Yplus2015: A beauty pageant with no discrimination

September 18, 201502:38 min
Picture-Teaser 20th International AIDS Conference

#Yplus2015: A beauty pageant with no discrimination

A youth organization is hosting its annual beauty pageant "Y+2015," to raise self-confidence among people with HIV.
September 18, 2015
FBI-Logo

Somali Americans allege discrimination

After years of scrutiny by law enforcement, many law-abiding Somali Americans feel stigmatized as suspected terrorists
September 12, 2015

World in Progress: Global Age Watch index

Help Age head Toby Porter, talks about the results of this year's global index on the wellbeing of elderly people.
September 9, 201505:47 min
Indien Ein alter Mann

World in Progress: Elderly in India

Elderly people used to be treated with respect in India, but the rapidly changing society poses a lot of challenges
September 9, 201508:37 min
Robert Richardson holds a sign reading: 'OUR ROOTS RUN DEEP HERE'

Race and rebirth

Is it the 'rebirth' of New Orleans' when tens of thousands of African-Americans have no part in it?
August 28, 2015
Roma children

To Germany and back again

In Serbia, the Roma live on the fringes of society. No reason to grant asylum, says Germany.
August 10, 2015
Deutschland Christopher Street Day München

Merkel 'still blocking anti-discrimination law'

Over 40 organizations have called on the German government to drop its objections to EU-wide anti-discrimination laws.
July 23, 2015
Indian women from various organizations shout slogans as they stage a sit-in demonstration in protest against the recent killings of women in Guwahati city, northeast India, 24 April 2011 (Photo: EPA/STRINGER)

India's struggle with 'witch-hunting'

The recent beheading of a woman highlights how common the practice of branding people as witches remains in India.
July 23, 2015
Japan Wirtschaft Symbolbild

Honda agrees to settle US discrimination claims out of court

Japanese car giant Honda has agreed to resolve claims saying that the company had discriminated against minority buyers.
July 15, 2015
sign , no children, no dogs, pictograms

Off-limits to kids

Germans debate a ban on children in a Düsseldorf riverside beer garden.
June 22, 2015