Zero Discrimination Day is an opportunity to join together against discrimination and celebrate everyone’s right to live a full and productive life with dignity. Gender, nationality, age, disability, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religion, language or any other status should never be a reason to discriminate.
At 92, Robina Asti, a WWII veteran and pilot, tells her story of living as a transgender woman since 1976 and her fight to be treated like any other widow. Learn more about Lambda Legal’s resources for trans people and advocates at lambdalegal.org/kyr/trans....
In Nepali culture a widow is looked upon with great animosity, often being branded a witch or a whore. Their society believes it is their immoral actions in a previous life that form the defining reason behind the death of their husband. They have therefore been...
Zimbabwe: HIV positive 11-year old girl speaks about discrimination. Video made for UNAIDS Zero Discrimination Day. The girl’s name and face are hidden to protect her identity and...
heroesofcolor.com – An instructional video series (done in whiteboard animation style) that highlights the outstanding achievements of people of color in and out of the military. This series creates an opportunity to celebrate our courage, perseverance and...
On Friday the 11th of October, an audience gathered in Bristol’s Hydra Books to explore life at the intersection of structural racism and endemic sexism. The evening saw the debut viewing of the End Racism campaign’s new short film, When Racism and Sexism Collide. The...
This short film, published in May 2014, looks at the important contribution of minority ethnic older people in the UK to the fight against racism: “We need a movement led by young people, drawing on older people as a frame of reference.” “We need to get older people...
“Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.”
Against a backdrop of significant civil rights gains, a black American president and major demographic shifts, how do we think about civil rights and racial justice in the 21st century? Young people speak out about what discrimination, affirmative action and civil...
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