Your Rights Religious Discrimination. Religious discrimination can take many forms. If you have been denied work or a promotion, been harassed or denied an accommodation at work because of your religious beliefs or practices, or because of your lack of certain religious beliefs, you may have a claim.

Effects of discriminatory practice: (e.g. disempowerment, low self-esteem and self-confidence, marginalisation, restricted opportunities, unemployment, lack of social cohesion, negative behaviours such as violence or criminality, loss of rights).

Children or young people who experience discrimination may: feel different to other children or young people in some way, or “less than”; can also impact their feeling of belonging or how they see their identity. have lower self-belief or self-worth. feel powerless and frustrated. have reduced aspirations.

Discriminatory harassment is verbal or physical conduct that denigrates or shows hostility toward an individual because of his or her race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age (40 or over), physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, or because of his or her opposition to discrimination or his or her …

Sometimes a rule or practice unintentionally singles out particular people and results in unequal treatment. This type of unintentional discrimination is called “constructive” or “adverse effect” discrimination. For example, an employer has a rule that male employees must be clean- shaven.

3 (1) For all purposes of this Act, the prohibited grounds of discrimination are race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability and conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been …