eeman Markowitz on Tue, 9 Nov 1999 03:35:03 +0100


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Syndicate: Name Discrimination


    Talk about discrimination...
    Take a look at the short article snip below!
    
    BTW, Natasha sounds more Russian to me!  :-)
    
    Greetings,

              Slobodan Markovic (mailto:twiddle@eunet.yu)
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               politics: http://solair.eunet.yu/~twiddle
               internet: http://www.internodium.org.yu

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NATIONAL POST, Thursday, November 4, 1999
 
INTERPRETER SAYS SHE LOST JOB AFTER BEING MISTAKEN FOR A SERB
Complaint filed after incident in camp for Kosovars

Graeme Hamilton, National Post
 
A New Brunswick woman hired by the federal Immigration Department to work
with Kosovar refugees has filed a human rights complaint saying she was
fired because people mistook her for a Serb. Natasha Ruckpaul, who suffered
torture before immigrating to Canada from Bosnia in 1993, claims she was
unfairly dismissed last May as the interpreter co-ordinator at the refugee
camp at CFB Gagetown outside Fredericton.
...
People assumed she was a Serb because her first name is a common Serb name
and because Serbian is one of the seven languages she speaks.
...

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