DISCRIMINATION Presentation by Brian Douglas Director RCHF.

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DISCRIMINATION Presentation by Brian Douglas Director RCHF.

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DISCRIMINATION

Presentation by Brian Douglas

Director RCHF.

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WHAT IS DISCRIMINATION?

• Discrimination is to treat a person or group of persons different from the way we treat all other persons or groups in society.

• Discrimination takes many different forms and affects many people.

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Discrimination is not new

• Discrimination has been used to keep certain people or groups of people down for many years.

• Sadly discrimination is still used within even the most developed Countries including within Europe and the USA today.

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Discrimination affects millions of citizens.

• Discrimination is often based on grounds of a persons physical state, color, race, religion, social status and can take many forms.

• How many forms of discrimination can you name?

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How well did you do?

• Forms of discrimination include.• Disability discrimination.• Segregation of colored people, gypsies,

Jews, religious groups and other minorities.• School, & workplace discrimination.• Discrimination within justice on ethnic and

gender grounds.• Language discrimination. Age discrimination

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