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Positive action
Positive action
Positive action is a controversial term, roughly synonymous with affirmative action, used in identity politics currents to connote promotion of people based on belonging to non majority identity groups in the workplace, educational institutions and positions in society, purpotedly without...

is the promotion of an under-represented group without prejudicing the criteria of selection by merit.

Positive action may also refer to:

Positive Action
Positive Action
Positive Action is the term describing a series of political protests and strikes in pre-independence Ghana; a political activism campaign. The campaign was launched by Kwame Nkrumah before his election by popular vote as the ruler of Gold Coast and then Prime Minister of Ghana after the independence...

, a series of political activism in pre-independence Ghana
Positive Action Group
Positive action group
The Positive Action Group is a political pressure group formed on the Isle of Man in November 2006. They see that there should be three ‘core principles’ applying to the system of Government in the Isle of Man, namely open accountable government, rigorous control of public finances, and a fairer...

, a political pressure group based in the Isle of Man
Affirmative action
Affirmative action
Affirmative action refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or national origin" into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group, usually as a means to counter the effects of a history of discrimination.-Origins:The term...

or positive action, policies that take race, color, religion, sex or national origin into consideration

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