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(10)
Discriminatory attacks - it shall be illegal to commit attacks on any person or
group of persons based on or relating to color, race, ethnicity, nationality or
religious affiliation or belief. Such unlawful attacks include but are not
limited to:
a) Attacks in violation of the security on the person, family, home,
correspondence, usual place of meetings/ associations/ worship/ gathering of
any individuals or group of individuals;
b) Threat of attack or violence against the person, family, home, correspondence,
usual place of meetings/ association/ worship/ gathering or any individuals or
group of individuals;
3) Intimidation, acts of coercion, psychological and emotional attacks; and
4) Similar attacks, as well as frustrated and attempted attacks.
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(11)
Discrimination in political and civil life. It shall be unlawful to deny, prevent or
deprive a person or group of persons from enjoying their right to participate
equally in political and civic life where qualified and not disqualified by law;
(12)
Discrimination in cultural and social life. It shall be unlawful to deny, prevent or
deprive a person or group of persons from participation in the social and
cultural life of one's ethnic; racial, cultural or religious community, and
practice of religion."
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Any analogous act which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the
recognition, enjoyment, or exercise of the person's human rights and
fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, and civil
spheres on the basis of ethnic or racial background. and/ or religious
affiliations or beliefs.
SEC. 5. Racial Profiling. It shall be illegal to subject a person to unnecessary,
unjustified, illegal, and degrading search, questioning or other investigative activity
solely beca~se ?f. his race, color, ethn~~i!\y, nationality, or religious affiliation or belief,
language, dIsabIlIty or other status; Iii,~
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The government shall take the nece '. ~h steps to prevent questioning, arrests and
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deprivation of liberty, searches and det 'rmination of guilt in criminal activity which are
in reality based solely on the physical appearance of a person, that person's color or
features or membership of a racial or ethnic group, or any profiling which exposes him
or her to greater suspicion."
(a) To subject a person to unnecessary, unjustified, illegal and degrading search because
of his manner of clothing or by reason of his religion, color, creed or ethnic identity;
(b) To discriminate a person who is applying for a job just because of his name, religion
or ethnic background;
(c) To disallow an individual
'entering any establishment such as restaurants,
hotels, shopping'malls and other places of similar nature or to subject him to
discrimination or harassment in relation to other passengers in buses, taxis, ship or
airplanes because he happens to don a peculiar attire such as wearing of veil, turban
or any other traditional costumes or because of his color, creed; belief and ethnicity;'
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