Canada House passes transgender bill
A bill that would make it illegal to discriminate against transgender Canadians was approved by the House of Commons on Wednesday.
A bill that would make it illegal to discriminate against transgender Canadians was approved by the House of Commons on Wednesday.
Denying a Muslim girl entry into school for wearing hijab, a traditional Muslim scarf, and denying treatment to an HIV-positive patient are now criminal offenses in this city.
Zambales Representative Milagros “Mitos” Magsaysay said Senator Franklin Drilon should apologize to all married women, including his own wife and sister-in-law, for implying that they were “fake” as well, after he had belittled her for not being a “real Magsaysay.”
The city’s gay community staged the 6th Baguio Pride Parade on Sunday, but this year’s monthlong celebration was subdued when compared to last year’s activity that was highlighted by a union of eight gay couples that offended Church leaders.
The case of five St. Theresa’s high school students who were barred from attending their March 30 graduation for posting “lewd” photos of themselves on Facebook, took a different twist when the private school decided to file criminal charges against the parents and a guardian of four of the girls.
US pizza company Papa John’s has issued an apology to a New York woman of Asian descent who was given a receipt that referred to her as “lady chinky eyes.”
Old and new Filipino nurses scored important victories last week. In the United States, four Filipino-American nurses won their discrimination case against a Maryland-based hospital that fired them for speaking in Tagalog. On the home front, a total of 37,513 nursing graduates passed the board examinations and earned their professional licenses. According to a Philippine [...]
Women around the world enjoy more rights than ever before but still face discrimination in the workplace and far too often fall victim to violence at home, a UN report said Tuesday.
CLARK FREEPORT –EXPATRIATES like Jimmy Dale remembers seeing Fields Avenue in Angeles City adorned with lots of Philippine and American flags, while bars gave out discounts on beer and other drinks. The celebration of the Filipino-American Friendship Day every July 4 before 1991 in the former Clark Air Base and Angeles, says Dale, was grand, [...]
BEIJING – Migrant worker Yue Yaowei has lived in Beijing for six years but is not recognised as a resident of the Chinese capital — and so cannot get health insurance, buy a car or purchase a house. “I am under big pressure here,” Yue, 24, told AFP at a duck restaurant in central Beijing [...]
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 [...]
JAYSON WAS ABROAD when he learned he contracted HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) because of his numerous sexual dalliances. He broke up with his foreign partner and decided to live the rest of his life back home. Home is a town in Mountain Province, where his family is part of the “kadangyan” or the upper caste. [...]
