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This discrimination is often enacted upon completion of employment applications that require responses about past criminal history. Many developed countries, such as Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and United States, have passed legislation prohibiting discrimination based on criminal record. However, the availability and extent of protection ...
In September 2014, several Mexican human rights groups and International Federation for Human Rights, had filed a complaint with the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, asking it to investigate the “systematic and widespread” abuse of thousands of civilians by the army and the police in their fight against ...
Employment discrimination against persons with criminal records in the United States has been illegal since enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [citation needed] Employers retain the right to lawfully consider an applicant's or employee's criminal conviction(s) for employment purposes e.g., hiring, retention, promotion, benefits, and delegated duties.
WASHINGTON/CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) -Mexico filed a court brief supporting the U.S. Department of Justice's opposition to a Republican-backed Texas law that would empower state authorities ...
Illegal immigration in Mexico has occurred at various times throughout history, especially in the 1830s and since the 1970s. The largest source of illegal immigrants in Mexico are the impoverished Central American countries of Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, and El Salvador and African countries like Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Guinea, Ghana and Nigeria.
Mexico has made recent strides in the representation of women in government and public positions, not only with Sheinbaum's election, but also by installing the first woman to lead the country's ...
Indigenous LGBTQ people in Mexico face discrimination from inside and outside their community as scholars worry about rising violence against them. 'We are invisible': Discrimination, risks abound ...
Mexican labor law governs the process by which workers in Mexico may organize labor unions, engage in collective bargaining, and strike.Current labor law reflects the historic interrelation between the state and the Confederation of Mexican Workers, the labor confederation officially aligned with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI), which ruled ...