by Toby Luckhurst BBC In 1969, El Salvador and Honduras fought a four-day conflict that cost thousands of lives and displaced thousands more – a bloody struggle still remembered as the Football War. It was 2-2 after 90 minutes at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. This was the third game between Honduras and …
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Kids At Lemonade Stand Robbed At Gunpoint
by Drew Pittock USA Today A 14-year-old was arrested, and another suspect remains at large after an armed robbery at a lemonade stand in Boston, authorities said. The Boston Police Department announced last month that it was investigating an armed robbery at a lemonade stand, involving two suspects believed to be around 14 and 11 …
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FedEx Sued For Employment Discrimination
by Sydney Haulenbeek Courthouse News Service The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued FedEx Corp. on June 30, claiming the shipping company discriminated against four blind package handlers. FedEx has discriminated against blind employees who worked at its Kernersville facility, outside of Winston-Salem, the EEOC said in its suit, by not providing reasonable …
Seeking The American Dream In Other Places
by Blake Bachelor CNN Drawn by sunshine or a lower cost of living, a growing number of Americans are choosing to live their golden years outside the US, in the hope that it will better suit their financial or lifestyle needs and wants. While official numbers aren’t available, companies and organizations that specialize …
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I Say This “Fly Tipper” Got Off Too Easy
by Kevin Burton I am guessing you are like me and had no previous idea what “fly tipping” is. Fly tipping is “the activity of illegally leaving waste or unwanted objects next to a road, in a field, in a river, etc.” according to the Cambridge Dictionary. According to wordhistories.net, here’s how …
Blind Moroccans Locked Out Of Services
by Khadija Tachfine Hespress.com The more than 400,000 visually impaired people in Morocco continue to struggle to access education, employment, health services, and other services, despite reforms the country adopted to promote inclusion. From the UN Disability Convention to the 2011 Constitution and Framework Law 97.13, which aims to protect and promote the …
International Women’s Day, Because Why Not?
by Kevin Burton Tomorrow dear reader, is International Women’s Day. When I gave my wife Jeannette those glad tidings she said “What does that mean?” An excellent question from an excellent woman. “Imagine a gender-equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination,” is the invitation from the International Women’s …
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Investigation Shows Dollar Store Cheating
by Barry Yeoman and Jocelyn C Zuckerman The Guardian On a cloudy winter day, a state government inspector named Ryan Coffield walked into a Family Dollar store in Windsor, North Carolina, carrying a scanner gun and a laptop. Inside the store, which sits along a three-lane road in a county of peanut growers …
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Court Rules In Favor Of Blind Job Seekers
by Ruchi Bhattar The Print (India) New Delhi: A high court on Thursday, delivered a victory to three blind job seekers in India. In a landmark judgment addressing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (RPWD Act), the Delhi High Court Thursday ruled that the Airports Authority of India (AAI) cannot disqualify blind candidates …
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Results To Pay $250,000 For Discrimination
by Caroline Colvin HRDive.com A Florida-based business services company must pay $250,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The Results Companies, LLC, hired a blind person in Texas to be a telephone-based customer service representative for the company. The worker requested a screen reader so …
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