Equality and Diversity

This article discusses the importance of promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in society. It covers the impact of illegal cultural practices such as female genital mutilation, breast ironing, forced marriage and honour-based killing. It also suggests ways to challenge these practices and promote awareness about diversity and inclusion.

Equality and Diversity

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TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

TASK 1
1.1: Children's rights are the social, economical, and cultural rights which includes the right to
education, right to health, right to living a decent life, right to live with parents, right to play, and
right to be protected from harm and abuse. Children's rights are associated with the freedom of
discrimination on the basis of caste, religion, skin colour, community, gender, ethnicity, etc.
(Marmot, 2020).
1.2: The UN convention on the rights of the child, concentrates on four aspects of children's
rights: protect the children from the decisions that negatively affects them, protect the children
from against exploitation, discrimination, protect children from any sort of harm and abuse,
provisions to fulfil the children's basic needs (Tobin, 2019).
2.1: Diversity refers to the understanding each individual is unique in its own way. It is important
for everyone to recognise individual differences and accept them equally in a society. In a
society, people live together belongs to the different caste, religion, culture, socio-economic
status. They may have different race, ethnicity, political beliefs, religious beliefs, ideologies.
2.2: Stereotyping thoughts and discrimination practices may impacts the life of the children
drastically. These practices can steal the fair chances from a child to participate in activities he/
she interested in. The discriminative behaviour experienced by children impacts their thought
process and make them feel isolated and unaccepted by the society. Such behaviour promotes the
inequality and injustice in society.
2.3: Code of practices and legislations refers to the guidelines and laws respectively. These acts
promotes the strict prohibition of harassment, discrimination, and victimization in the work
location. These laws are need to be followed by all employees and all employers of the
organisation. Under these proposed laws one needs to embrace diversity at work place which
helps in creating an inclusive environment to encourage fair and good business ethics.
2.4: Not following the code of conduct simply signifies the breaching of legal instructions, laws
and regulations. If any individual found to break the laws intentionally or unintentionally made
by the court for social regulations, it may leads to bear disciplinary action against the individual.
It may include, the person may get fired, seizing of the license or may be dismissed by
professional association.
2.5: Harmful and illegal cultural practices includes discrimination, inequality, female genital
mutilation, child marriage, harassment, child abuse and harm.
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FGM: Female genital mutilation is the cultural practice in which external female genitals has
been removed partially of completely for non-medical purposes (Glover and et. al., 2018).
Breast ironing: This is a harmful cultural practice being followed to flattened the developing
breast of females in their adolescent stage. The practice is being followed to save the girls from
sexual harassment and rape.
Forced marriage: It is a bad practice in which one or two members are forced to get married
without their consent or forced to stay in marital relationship against their will.
Honour-based killing: It is a crime committed to protect the honour/pride of the family or the
community. Honour-based violence includes sexual harassment, domestic violence, threats to
kill, forced marriage, social rejection etc.
4.1: To challenge the above mentioned illegal cultural practices, some discussions have being
made:
FGM: The FGM practice can be challenged by encourage the older generations to stop
practising the tradition and make them understand that the practice have no any medical
advantage on females rather it causes high pain and major sufferings to women. It can be
controlled by educating girls about their rights to decision regarding to their body, by making
people understand that no religion demands for such cruel practices.
Breast ironing: This cruel practise has been challenged by developing the strict policies against
violent and discriminative practices. The government and non-governmental bodies joined the
hands and stood together against breast ironing and made some policies like Convention against
Torture and Other Cruel Treatment (Amahazion, 2021). Some legislations are enforced to
intensify efforts on health education.
Forced marriage: This wrong and inappropriate practise can be challenged by enforcing strict
laws against the child marriage and marriage against consent. By make people understand that
forced marriage not only may results in marriage failure but it also give rise to range of criminal
offenses.
Honour-based killing: This wrong practice has been banned by enforcing some strict laws
against the cruel act, by fighting against racist stereotypes and by avoiding abused cultural
practices, my make people understand the demerits of the practice and impacts of such wrong
practices of individual's life (Gill, 2019).
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3.1: It is important to promote awareness about diversity, equality and inclusion among the
society by considering some points like, raising voice against inequality, racism, and sexist
actions. By learning about the problems and concerns of other people, by learning about different
cultures, practices and accept and respect them. By being open-minded and try to understand
other's views and by showing welcoming gesture about their opinions and ideologies.
3.2: In order to bring lasting changes in the society some important roles are need to consider:
listen and educate the people against the discriminative practices and try to make them
understand the negative impact of such practices in a community. It is important to raise
awareness about the fact that everyone is equal and every individual holds a right to equality,
dignity and safety. Social media platforms are also a useful element in recent times to report
racist or discriminatory content online.
3.3: Mainly two key ways to promote, inclusion, equality, and diversity among others are: By
teaching people the significance of treating every individual with respect and dignity and by
helping others through the process to overcoming the hurdles they have been faced with.
3.4: In order to support the community understanding about different cultures and beliefs, one
needs to promote interaction within the different community and engage them towards a specific
task, so they will work together. For example, in work place a team may be formed by including
members from different community and assign them a task to perform collaboratively.
3.5: Available source of information, support and advice about equality, diversity and inclusion
are: Trade unions, Line manager or other manager, Law centres, and Advocacy and campaigning
organisations.
REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Amahazion, F., 2021. Breast ironing: A brief overview of an under-reported harmful
practice. Journal of global health, 11.
Gill, A.K., 2019. Social and Cultural Implications of “Honor”-Based Violence. International
Glover, J., Liebling, H., Goodman, S. and Barrett, H., 2018. Persistence and resistance of
harmful traditional practices (HTPs) perpetuated against girls in Africa and Asia. Journal
of International Women's Studies, 19(2), pp.44-64.
human rights of women, pp.365-380.
Marmot, M., 2020. Society and the slow burn of inequality. The lancet, 395(10234), pp.1413-
1414.
Tobin, J. ed., 2019. The UN convention on the rights of the child: A commentary. OUP Oxford.
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