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Bangladesh: Fighting discrimination in Canada

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 @ 16:31 UTC

by Neha Viswanathan

Countries:: Bangladesh
Topics:: Human Rights, Law

To my pen, forgive me for typing blogs a letter from her uncle, who is going to court to fight the discrimination he faced at the hands of security guards outside a station.

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[...] details a letter from her uncle in Canada, who believes he was the victim of racial profiling (via Neha Viswanathan): Tomorrow my uncle will be in court to fight against the discrimination he encountered a year ago. [...]

# 2008-01-15 at 12:01 pm

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