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On 5 June, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) announced to launch a statutory inquiry into racial inequalities, which have been exposed amidst a surge of COVID-19 cases in the UK. The human rights watchdog's investigation was to provide evidence-based information, compelled from government departments and organizations. [46]
Healthcare workers are more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection than the general population due to frequent contact with positive COVID-19 patients. [2] Healthcare workers have been required to work under stressful conditions without proper protective equipment, and make difficult decisions involving ethical implications.
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and exacerbated inequalities through uneven effects across social domains. [11] Some of these impacts include disproportionate financial toll, crime, education, human rights, xenophobia and racism, disproportionate impacts by gender, and racial inequalities.
Jarvis Binford, a Norton Healthcare employee embroiled in a racial discrimination lawsuit against the company, speaks in a March 2024 interview at the Bahe, Cook, Cantley & Nefzger law office.
Jun. 6—Santa Fe County has settled a former employee's pandemic-era complaint alleging its enforcement of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate amounted to religious discrimination. Jail administrators ...
On 14 April 2021, the US Senate voted 92–6 to advance the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which would allow the US Justice Department to review hate crimes related to COVID-19, with a section of the bill (titled the Khalid Jabara-Heather Heyer NO HATE Act, originally drafted by Senator Richard Blumenthal) dedicated to providing federal grants for ...
(Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Wednesday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a new rule against discrimination on the basis of gender identity in healthcare while he hears a lawsuit ...
In the United States, 20% of Hispanic Americans report encountering discrimination in healthcare settings and 17% report avoiding seeking medical care due to expected discrimination. [19] Studies of Hispanic people living in the U.S. reveal that after experiencing an instance of discrimination in a healthcare setting they, afterward, delayed ...