#discriminatory laws

[indizombie]

"Leprosy remains a deep-rooted human rights issue," says Alice Cruz, the UN Special Rapporteur on the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy, a role she's held since November 2017. There are more than a hundred laws that discriminate against people with leprosy worldwide, creating a strong stigma that can act as a barrier for getting treatment, she says. In some countries, leprosy is grounds for divorce. In India, this was the case until laws were amended in 2019. Many people affected by the disease still struggle to get jobs, and the disease can hinder their access to healthcare and education. "Countries should do everything in their power to have discriminatory laws abolished and to put in place policy that can guarantee economic and social rights to people affected by leprosy," says Cruz. "Going forward, we should ask ourselves the question: are our healthcare systems working to afford full accessibility to persons affected by leprosy? This is because leprosy is much more than a disease, it became a label that dehumanises people who are affected by it."

Kamala Thiagarajan, ‘Leprosy: the ancient disease scientists can't solve’, BBC

[zerodiscriminationday]

Removing laws that criminalize same-sex sexual relations upholds the fundamental human rights of LGBTQI people and decreases their vulnerability to HIV.

POSTCARD IV - Zero Discrimination Day 2024; March 1st.

[thoughtportal]

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please show up to your local government meetings. they are counting on people now showing up and seeing what they are doing.

[timetravellingkitty]

hi! sorry this is random lmao😭 but like my friends are arguing about modi and how he is good and shit- (I am definitely losing braincells due to that conversation and I want to bang my head against the wall) can you explain some of the stuff he has done bc im having a hard time explaining it in a concise manner 💀

wow i'm so early oops but speedrunning; there's weaponsing the ed and cbi, limited press freedom, farmers' protests, wrestlers' protests, abetting ethnic violence in gujarat (2002) and manipur (2023), censoring media critical of modi, bulldozer raj, the 2020 delhi pogroms

oh and income inequality is worse now than under british rule

[corrodedcoughin]

court awarded a terf piece of shit 100k because she was seemingly fired for having ‘gender critical’ views and now everyone is congratulating her. so just to say if you are a terf get the fuck off of here. And anyone who doesn’t fall into the demands of ‘gender critics’ I fucking love you and I am so glad you are here

[cosmic-radiocity]

Guess who's getting laid off next Monday 👍

[theadventuresofoliversykes]

Idk I think itz bc I hate the mainstream but all this Barbie x Oppenheimer bullshit is so fucking annoying like can you guys shut the fuck up about the movie about war crimes and the movie about capitalism PLEASEEE

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

You're oversimplifying that case. It's not just about two women in conflict with each other. There's also the straight male donor who misrepresented himself as a gay man and then seduced the birth mother. He has the most influence over the custody situation. It's ultimately his interests that are being prioritized by the court.

That's a bit of a reach.

What's your ideal remedy here? Let's say we presume parentage by marriage - Wilson and W.R.W.W still have/have had an Emergency Order/Protection Order against the lesbian ex-wife/mother.

@female-malice

[transratsactivist]

got asked whether nonbinary people can get the third gender marker in germany and lmao there are two answers to that: a) what is supposed to be happening: only if they are intersex and a doctor says so, and b) what is actually happening: some nonbinary people have been changing their gender markers to "divers", it just depends on whether you can find a doctor, how cooperative your civil registry officers are, how fast you did it and how willing you are to lie about being intersex.

[mejomonster]

i still think about that post that mentioned different levels of reading comprehension... i’m going to look for it to reblog again...

just like. i don’t usually think of adult reading comprehension in ‘levels’. i tend to assume ‘oh everyone can understand when a narration is emotional, its biased and implying information about the narrator’s emotions and biases and is not necessarily reliable’ and don’t realize some people comprehend a bit less, just the face value of ‘narration says X is disgusting, so X is, narrator says Y is true so its true’ and interpret texts based on that. and some comprehend less than that, not noticing there’s even an emotional overtone anywhere, and the writing says X so X is simply true. 

A lot of these skills get taught to some degree in school, when english classes made us do literary analysis of texts. And perhaps more important since it involves factual information, when school would make us evaluate sources for our essays and figure out what bias writers have and evaluate which part of articles is writer’s opinion and which part is actual facts. Critical reading skills we need to determine if something is an ad trying to convince us of something or an informational update, to determine if something is trying to manipulate us, to determine if the information portion we read is backed up by other sources or likely not actually true, to determine the biases of all informational media we consume (because even simple stock updates and history books all have some tinge of the biases of the writer/presenter). These skills help keep us safe on the internet, help us look for information to make decisions, help us recognize when we are being manipulated, recognize various media’s goals toward convincing us of things and still being able to sort through for the facts connected. For example when there is a shooting at X with Y people injured, that’s a fact, and then everything the reporters say beyond that about ways it could be prevented/shouldn’t have happened is their opinion, and how the words they use to describe the facts themselves like if ‘kid’ or ‘criminal’ is used to describe the shooter and what words describe the police and victims etc all are still used to push the writer’s opinion.

I would like to hope, since figuring out facts versus opinions is such a vital skill for simple online safety (from malicious ads, propaganda, dangerous groups) and for simple real life safety (figuring out if a recall for food happened, figuring out if a location in the state is currently unsafe to travel to), that hopefully most people learned that ability to discern. I also realize now that I’m older, how useful that skill is, and how I still have more to learn and practice in being able to do it. 

Well, that skill is vital in discerning fact versus opinion of nonfiction and opinion media. But it’s also a skill needed to understand stories, fiction, and again it just. Surprises me how its not actually a given that readers who find something, watchers who find something, will actually have the full ability to discern the intent and meanings that a creator put into something. 

[yagikidd57]

[zerodiscriminationday]

When people are not restricted by discriminatory laws, they have better access to health services.

POSTCARD VII - Zero Discrimination Day 2024; march 1st.

[thoughtportal]

[fricklefracklefloof]

ok i AM raven cycling on main i guess. quietly im mad abt that deleted dream thieves excerpt that maggie posted on her instagram you could argue that its not really canon but the fact that gansey was ready to defend his republican mother….

[porosenoksposts]

the more i think about syril karn the more i realise he is actually a pretty sympathetic character who has a strong moral code and adhers to it... and has a need to be something bigger than himself even. usually i like characters like this.

it usettles me because though i have a vague idea why he is in the wrong i can't adequately explain it - and the more time i spend like that the more i see myself in him.