Discrimination is the unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on characteristics such as race, gender, age, or sexual orientation.
Through the enforcement of the City Human Rights Law, the NYC Commission on Human Rights is getting justice for victims and holding violators accountable. If you face discrimination in NYC, you can report it to the NYC Commission on Human Rights at (212) 416-0197 or by using this online form.
Discrimination is an action or practice that excludes, disadvantages, or merely differentiates between individuals or groups of individuals on the basis of some ascribed or perceived trait, although the definition itself is subject to substantial debate.
Moral philosophers have defined discrimination using a moralized definition. Under this approach, discrimination is defined as acts, practices, or policies that wrongfully impose a relative disadvantage or deprivation on persons based on their membership in a salient social group.
To treat a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their race, gender, sexuality, etc.: be discriminated against She felt she had been discriminated against because of her age.
Ing to the General Act on Equal Treatment ( AGG ), discrimination is the less favourable treatment of a person on the grounds of age, disability, ethnic origin, race, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation (Section 1 AGG ) which cannot be justified by objective reasons.