Coming of age was dealt with in Good Will Hunting ( 1997 ), race relationships were a theme in American History X ( 1998 ), and the AIDs epidemic and discrimination were the focus of Philadelphia ( 1993 ).

The European Convention on Human Rights, which is legally binding on all European Union states ( following the passage of the Human Rights Act 1998 in the United Kingdom ), makes restricting the rights of an individual to practice or change their religion illegal in article 9, and discrimination on the basis of religion illegal in article 14.

In 1998, Chief Deputy U. S. Marshal ( now inactive ) Matthew Fogg won a landmark EEO and Title VII racial discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against the Justice Department, for which he was awarded $ 4 million.

Courts have since made many important decisions, including R. v. Morgentaler ( 1988 ), which struck down Canada's abortion law, and Vriend v. Alberta ( 1998 ), in which the Supreme Court found the province's exclusion of homosexuals from protection against discrimination violated section 15.

In 1998, at the NATO summit, Albright articulated what would become known as the " three Ds " of NATO, " which is no diminution of NATO, no discrimination and no duplication – because I think that

In 1998, following Covey's apology over his comments at STM98, Franklin Covey rewrote its nondiscrimination policy to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.

In 1998, Yeshiva University and the College of Medicine was sued by the American Civil Liberties Union for discrimination of two medical students over their sexual orientation by not allowing their non-student, non-married partners to live with them in student housing.

In 2007 the Supreme Court agreed with the company and ruled that her suit should have been thrown out at the start because it relied on evidence of discrimination in the 1980s, not on unfair pay decisions in 1998 or 1999 ; the Supreme Court declared that employees wishing to file discrimination charges must do so no more than 180 days after they have received their first discriminatory paycheck, although Lilly Ledbetter did not know she had been discriminated against in pay until much more than 180 days had passed.

Since its creation, the UN often condemned racial discrimination, including some 58 resolutions and decisions condemning Nazism, but resolution A / RES / 53 / 133 ( December 1998 ) was the first time the General Assembly included antisemitism among the forms of racism it wished to eliminate.

After the passage of age discrimination laws, however, the " 65 Club " slowly phased out, and Hastings hired its last " 65 Club " professor in 1998.

For instance, in 1998, when Hurricane Mitch battered the northeast coast of Honduras, the Garifuna communities were among the hardest hit, yet because of a history of racism and discrimination, they were virtually ignored by government relief efforts.

In 1998 Foxman received the Interfaith Committee of Remembrance Lifetime Achievement Award " as a leader in the fight against anti-Semitism, bigotry and discrimination.

Michelle Byng, in " Mediating Discrimination: Oppression among African-American Muslim Women "-- the 1998 article — brings to focus new approaches to understanding discrimination, but also, she writes to illustrate the many overlooked opportunities in which the discriminated are able to empower themselves in certain situations.

Dr. Sebastian Poulter, who died in 1998, was a distinguished legal scholar, and an advocate of ethnic diversity and its recognition and warning against discrimination and islamophobia.

In 1998, the ILO International Labour Conference adopted the “ Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work ” defining certain rights as “ fundamental .” The Declaration commits member states to respect and promote these main principles, referred to as the core conventions, which are grouped into the following four categories ( total of eight ILO conventions ): freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining, the elimination of forced or compulsory labor, the abolition of child labor, and the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.

There is no anti-discrimination law, however a bill to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation has been debated since 1998.

The case of Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc., 523 US 75 ( 1998 ) should be noted because it applied Title VII to same-sex sexual harassment with the unanimous finding that Title VII bars all forms of discrimination " because of " sex.

* In 1998, dentist Roger N. Carlsten was sued for religious discrimination in the workplace by former employee Susan Morgan, who alleged in court that she was fired for refusing to take a Scientology-filled Hubbard Administrative Technology " statistics " course.

They argued that a failure to do so breached their human rights under Articles 8 ( right to respect for privacy and family life ), 12 ( right to marry ) and 14 ( prohibition of discrimination ), taken together with Article 8 and / or 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which was incorporated into domestic UK law by the Human Rights Act 1998.

Josefina Fierro ( 1914, Calexico, California-March 1998 ), later Josefina Fierro de Bright, was a Mexican American leader who helped organize resistance against discrimination in the American Southwest during the Great Depression.

Articles 2 and 3 were reworded in 1998 to remove jurisdictional claim over the entire island and to recognise that " a united Ireland shall be brought about only by peaceful means with the consent of a majority of the people, democratically expressed, in both jurisdictions in the island.

Sullivan also pointed out that the magazine greatly exaggerated the danger the US economy was in after the Dow Jones fell to 7, 400 during the 1998 Labor Day weekend and noted that the magazine's claim that the US economy was at a high risk of entering a recession was far from clear.

After a 1997 – 1998 exhibit of Schiele's work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the painting was seized by order of the New York County District Attorney and had been tied up in litigation by heirs of its former owner who claim that the painting was Nazi plunder and should be returned to them.

Glendale bills itself as “ Arizona ’ s Antique Capital ,” with support for its claim from both Sunset magazine ( 2004 ) and a 1998 article in USA Today.

Their mascot is the Blackbird and they claim three NYSPHSAA titles with Boys Soccer in 1990, and Girls Basketball in 1998 and 2002.

It is reported that, in 1998, Ottawa wireless technology developer Wi-LAN, Inc. " acquired a 49 percent claim to the patent from Lamarr for an undisclosed amount of stock " ( Eliza Schmidkunz, Inside GNSS ), although expired patents have no economic value.

In England and Wales, the term writ of summons for the originating document in civil proceedings has been replaced with the term claim form by the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 ( CPR ).

His claim was disproven in 1998 when DNA tests showed that his grandfather, Karl Wilhelm Naundorff, was not Louis XVII of France.

Shortly after Powell's death, Kenneth Nock, a Wolverhampton solicitor, wrote to the Express and Star in April 1998 to claim that his firm had acted for the woman in question, but that he could not name her owing to rules concerning client confidentiality.

From 1937 until 1998, the Irish constitution included a claim to the territory of Northern Ireland, which was claimed as a part of the " national territory ".

In 1998, as part of the Good Friday Agreement, the Irish constitution was altered by referendum to remove the territorial claim to Northern Ireland and instead extend the right of Irish citizenship to all the people of the island should they wish to have it.

The ninth disc includes a retrospective documentary from 2005, Julien Temple's 1981 film The Comic Strip ( which retroactively lays a strong claim to being the actual first ' episode '), and the two Comic Strip episodes of the 1998 documentary series First On Four.

Amidst the economic events of 1998, Mahathir had sacked Anwar as Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, and he could now claim to have rescued the economy in spite of Anwar's policies.

In 1998, the Metropolitan Police filed an objection to the trademark claim, maintaining that they owned the rights to the police box image.

If this is so, then the claim of the Dukedom of Albany passed upon Johann Leopold's death in 1972 to his youngest brother Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and became extinct upon the latter's death in 1998.

In his 1998 book Death Traps, Belton Cooper, who was a lieutenant in the 3rd Armored Division during World War II, working as a liaison officer for the division's armor repair units, made the claim that General George S. Patton was primarily responsible for delaying the development and production of the M26.

Today, the term radical center is most commonly associated with a movement that does not explicitly claim descent from the Reform Party or its ideas, but rather draws its inspiration from the book The Third Way by Anthony Giddens ( 1998 ) and Giddens ' highly-regarded follow-up book The Third Way and Its Critics ( 2000 ).

In 1998, as part of the Good Friday Agreement, Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution of Ireland, which claimed de jure sovereignty over Northern Ireland and created great resentment among unionists, were amended to remove the explicit territorial claim.

On September 12, 1998, Del Valle won a 10-round unanimous decision over Melinda Robinson to claim the vacant WIBF super featherweight title.

DoD General Counsel Judith A. Miller initially blocked the award in 1998 based on the claim that " circumstances do not appear to meet the criteria established by Congress for award of the Prisoner of War Medal ," which may have been a reference to the fact that Higgins's captors were not members of regularly constituted ( state ) armed forces.

The indecisive outcome of the Cenepa War — both sides claim victory — along with the mediation efforts of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and the United States, paved the way for the opening of diplomatic negotiations that ultimately led to the signing of a definitive peace agreement in 1998, putting an end to one of the longest territorial disputes in the Western Hemisphere.

If wars between young democracies are included in the analysis, several studies and reviews still find enough evidence supporting the stronger claim that all democracies, whether young or established, go into war with one another less frequently ( Ray 1998 ), ( Ray 2003 ),, while some do not.

In 1998, the United States intervened in the lawsuits on behalf of the plaintiffs in the claim.

Individuals paid capital gains tax at their highest marginal rate of income tax ( 0 %, 10 %, 20 % or 40 % in the tax year 2007 / 8 ) but from 6 April 1998 were able to claim a taper relief which reduces the amount of a gain that is subject to capital gains tax ( reducing the effective rate of tax ), depending on whether the asset is a " business asset " or a " non-business asset " and the length of the period of ownership.

* 1998 ( December ): torms and massive seas claim six lives in Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race