Racial profiling

L&T Technology Services appoints Nandini P. Nair as Global General Counsel

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Monday, August 15, 2022
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L&T Technology Services Limited, a global leading pure-play engineering services company, today announced the appointment of Nandini P. Nair as the companys Global General Counsel.

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  • L&T Technology Services Limited, a global leading pure-play engineering services company, today announced the appointment of Nandini P. Nair as the companys Global General Counsel.
  • As part of her role, Nandini will oversee all legal matters including immigration, work site and legal compliance, labor and employment, litigation and contracts.
  • We welcome Nandini on board and remain committed to our resolve of conducting our global businesses adhering to all rules of law.
  • L&T Technology Services Limited is a listed subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Limited focused on Engineering and R&D (ER&D) services.

The Red Coalition Condemns the Killing of 37-year-old Jean-René “Junior” Olivier a Black Resident of Repentigny, Quebec

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Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Race and society, Offender profiling, Articles, Race and crime, Racial profiling

Mr. Olivier told his mother that he was seeing people around him, while subsequently holding a kitchen knife.

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  • Mr. Olivier told his mother that he was seeing people around him, while subsequently holding a kitchen knife.
  • What happened next will forever change the lives of those that knew Jean-Ren Junior Olivier.
  • We are asking the Minister of Public Safety Canada, to enact a legislation to prohibit racial profiling by law enforcement.
  • We are asking the Minister of Public Safety Canada, to enact a legislation to prohibit racial profiling by law enforcement.

Advocacy groups and the Red Coalition petition the Minister of Public Safety Canada, requesting the enactment of a legislation to prohibit racial profiling by law enforcement

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Race and society, Articles, Offender profiling, Race and crime, Racial profiling

We are asking the Minister of Public Safety Canada through e-petition, to enact a legislation to prohibit racial profiling by law enforcement.

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  • We are asking the Minister of Public Safety Canada through e-petition, to enact a legislation to prohibit racial profiling by law enforcement.
  • The group must obtain 500 signatures before the e-petition closes, in-order for the petition to be considered for legislation.
  • This country is experiencing a long overdue reckoning of the way it has treated Indigenous, Black, and other historically excluded groups.
  • The practice of racial profiling by law enforcement seriously threatens the equal rights, democracy, and justice for all Canadians.

Sharing practices on ethnic profiling and strategic litigation

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Friday, November 20, 2020
Articles, Race and society, Justice, Lawsuits, Offender profiling, Race and crime, Civil law, Racial profiling, Public interest litigation in India, Public interest law, Impact litigation

FRA took part in a meeting of the Public Interest Litigation Project on 17 November.

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  • FRA took part in a meeting of the Public Interest Litigation Project on 17 November.
  • The focus was on ethnic profiling and strategic litigation.
  • Participants from different EU Member States introduced cases of discriminatory profiling brought to national courts.
  • ThePublic Interest Litigation Projectis part of the Dutch Section of the International Commission of Jurists (NJCM).

Yes On Prop 24 Campaign Announces Endorsements From CA Black Newspapers And Prominent Community Leaders Like The NAACP

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Sunday, October 18, 2020
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Today, the Yes on Prop 24 campaign announced endorsements from some of the biggest black newspapers in California, including the: Los Angeles Sentinel , Watts Times, Sacramento Observer, San Diego Voice and Viewpoint,and Sun Reporter.

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  • SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Today, the Yes on Prop 24 campaign announced endorsements from some of the biggest black newspapers in California, including the: Los Angeles Sentinel , Watts Times, Sacramento Observer, San Diego Voice and Viewpoint,and Sun Reporter.
  • "Prop 24 allows consumers to stop companies from using online racial profiling to discriminate against them," saidAlice Huffman,President, California NAACP.
  • We need Prop 24 as a stopgap to these discriminatory practices," saidDaraka Larimore-Hall, Vice-Chair, California Democratic Party.
  • "I hope you will join me, the California CAACP and advocates from around the state in voting YES on Prop 24 to put a stop to this legal form of discrimination."

Stop racist harassment and ethnic profiling in Europe

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Saturday, June 6, 2020
Social issues, Discrimination, Abuse, Race and society, Human behavior, Aggression, Offender profiling, Race and crime, Racial profiling, Racism

Racist harassment, violence and discriminatory ethnic profiling are commonplace in Europe.

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  • Racist harassment, violence and discriminatory ethnic profiling are commonplace in Europe.
  • No one should be afraid of a police stop, just because they are black.
  • It showed that many black people in Europe experience racist harassment and violence, including at the hands of the police:

    FRA renews its call on Member States to fight discriminatory ethnic profiling, better support victims of racism and properly prosecute perpetrators.

  • Background information:

    The Being black in the EU report drew on experiences of nearly 6,000 black people in 12EU Member States.

In the Wake of George Floyd's Tragic Death, Fenton Consulting Urges Police Chiefs to Take a Stand

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Thursday, June 4, 2020
Police brutality in the United States, Police brutality, Racial profiling, Fenton, Race and society, Social issues, Humans

This tragic deathadds to a long list of innocent black lives lost, and has incited uprisings across the country.

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  • This tragic deathadds to a long list of innocent black lives lost, and has incited uprisings across the country.
  • Heartbroken Americans are desperate to make the statement that enough is enoughpolice brutality must end now and we need reform.
  • "It is time for us to unite and take a stand to prevent this from ever happening again," says David Fenton, founder of the media firm Fenton Consulting.
  • Fenton Consulting is sponsoring billboards in San Francisco and Chicago calling for the immediate cessation of racial profiling and police brutality.

Waddell Phillips: Statement by Reece Maxwell-Crawford on the resolution of his lawsuit against the Toronto Transit Commission

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Thursday, September 19, 2019
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TORONTO, Sept. 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Waddell Phillips announces the following statement by Reece Maxwell-Crawford.

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  • TORONTO, Sept. 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Waddell Phillips announces the following statement by Reece Maxwell-Crawford.
  • I am very happy that the events of February 18, 2018 will be put behind me.
  • It is very important to me that Mr. Leary has apologized on behalf of the TTC and that the lawsuit I started has been settled.
  • I am heartened to hear about the TTCs commitment to implementing the Toronto Ombudsmans report and engaging in a system-wide anti-racism strategy aimed directly at preventing racial profiling.

CAIR Urges TSA to Drop 'Quiet Skies' Passenger Tracking Program Over Concerns About Religious, Racial Profiling

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Monday, July 30, 2018
Offender profiling, Race and crime, Racial profiling, Profiling

All American citizens who enter the country are automatically screened for inclusion in the surveillance program.

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  • All American citizens who enter the country are automatically screened for inclusion in the surveillance program.
  • Dozens of air marshals have expressed concerns about the program.
  • Abbas noted that CAIR is currently challenging the government's use of watch lists and other modes of racial and religious profiling in federal courts across the country.
  • "Quiet Skies" is reminiscent of a similar TSA program that reportedly became "a magnet for racial profiling, targeting not only Middle Easterners but also blacks, Hispanics and other minorities."