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The exemption of teachers from fair employment legislation "has passed its sell-by date," MLAs have been told. The recruitment of teachers is exempt from
legislation outlawing religious discrimination in Northern Ireland.
A husband who refuses a 'get' (Jewish religious divorce) can now be viewed as exerting controlling and coercive behaviour, listed as a criminal offence under
the Serious Crime Act.
Aldi has removed a label on its beef dish after the supermarket received complaints from Hindu customers. However, the supermarket came up against yet more
backlash as shoppers pointed out that not all Hindus adhere to the no-beef rule.
Council bosses were wrong to offer a disabled Orthodox Jewish teenager 12 weeks of respite care at a residential home which was not "exclusively Orthodox
Jewish", a judge has concluded.
Author and criminal barrister Mohsin Zaidi has been praised after appearing on Jeremy Vine's Radio 2 show to discuss his coming-out memoir 'A Dutiful Boy'.
In a letter to all members of Congress, the US bishops' conference voiced strong opposition to the Equality Act, a series of measures designed to end
discrimination against US citizens on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
South Australia this week became the final Australian jurisdiction to partially decriminalise abortion. While this is a positive step, important legal
hurdles to abortion access remain in South Australia and around the country, say Erica Millar and Barbara Baird.
Bar Pinto and Gilad Levi have taken issue with a system that grants exemptions to that rule on religious grounds, while the faces of nonreligious troops must
remain smooth.
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