Sex-discrimination

The UK government has issued fresh guidelines to close a legal loophole that allowed sex-based abortions amid reports that several infant girls were "missing" in certain ethnic communities, largely British Asian, who have a cultural preference to a male child.

The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Wal-Mart in its fight to block a massive sex discrimination lawsuit on behalf of women who work there.The court ruled unanimously on Monday that the lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. cannot proceed as a class action, reversing a decision by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The lawsuit...

The UK government has issued fresh guidelines to close a legal loophole that allowed sex-based abortions amid reports that several infant girls were "missing" in certain ethnic communities, largely British Asian, who have a cultural preference to a male child.

The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Wal-Mart in its fight to block a massive sex discrimination lawsuit on behalf of women who work there.The court ruled unanimously on Monday that the lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. cannot proceed as a class action, reversing a decision by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The lawsuit...