Discrimination
Failure to address, prevent or correct

Type of entry: Potential Violation

... discrimination implies any act or conduct which denies to certain individuals equality of treatment with other individuals because they belong to a particular group in society. (Secretary-General of the United Nations, The main types and causes of discrimination, United Nations publication, Sales No. 49.XIV.3) Note: Any form of discrimination should always be seen as a violation as discrimination does not involve lack or resources, infrastructure, etc.

Broader Terms:

• Rights, realisation of
• Non-discrimination in exercising of rights

Narrower Terms:

• Age discrimination
• Appearance discrimination
• Birth status discrimination
• Cultural discrimination
• Disabilities, discrimination based on
• Ethnic discrimination
• Gender discrimination
• Language discrimination
• National minority, discrimination
• Nationality discrimination
• Political discrimination
• Property, discrimination based on
• Race discrimination
• Religious discrimination
• Sexual orientation discrimination
• Social origin discrimination

Related Terms:

• Child labour, failure to enforce programs targeting vulnerable children
• Development projects, discrimination in
• Education, equal opportunity of everyone to
• Education, institutional rules which discriminate
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms, respect for

Other Related Terms (keywords):

• Distinctions
• Ethnocentrism
• Exclusions
• Intolerance
• Marginalism
• Preferences
• Prejudices
• Restrictions
• Xenophobia