And even companies that have never been accused of discrimination are introducing equality training as a pre-emptive move.

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The league agreed to conduct training about the anti-discrimination policy during its annual Rookie Symposium and Football Operations Meeting and in other meetings and to host other periodic training meetings throughout the year.

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This project aims at putting ICTs to the use of media content development on major societal and development issues such as human rights, peace, tolerance and the fight against discrimination by providing developing countries with training, production and distribution opportunities in these areas.

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Police practice, recruitment and training were overhauled and anti-discrimination laws strengthened.

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One Machiavellian school of thought has it that the row over adultery was part of a devious plan to focus European attention on the penal code and away from even thornier issues such as the discrimination still faced by Turkey's non-Muslim minorities, and the ban on theological training for Orthodox Christians.

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