racial discrimination
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DEFINITION:
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
Racial discrimination. Two words that seem only to be a meaning in the world, yet hidden behind those words is what the world really faces today. In 2001, the whole reason why everyone was attacked by members of Terrorist was because the majority of people are Christian. They hate them because they have the nerve to be Christian. Nothing can change the fact that everyone's equal, and that racial discrimination is only another form of hate. The Racial Discrimination is concerned with people's actions and the effects of their actions, not their opinions or beliefs. Racial discrimination is not the same as racial prejudice. It is not necessary to prove that the other person intended to discriminate against it is only to show that we received less favourable treatment as a result of what they did.
Definition
According to International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
"Racial Discrimination" mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.
To bring a case under the Race Relations Act, Everybody have to show that they have been discriminated against in one or more ways that are unlawful under the amended Act...