Original sentence: Germany: The article 3 of the constitution provides for equal rights of all people regardless of sex or race.In recent years there has been a long public debate about whether to issue programs that would grant women a priviledged access to jobs in order to fight discrimination.In such countries, the focus tends to be on ensuring equal opportunity and, for example, targeted advertising campaigns to encourage ethnic minority candidates to join the police force.Japan: The law for equal opportunities in law and employment provided that in men and women should have equal chances in employment.There were programs stating that if men and women had equal qualifications, women had to be prefered for a job.Though affirmative action in the US is primarily associated with racial issues, the American civil rights movement originally gave as its purpose the correction of a history of oppression against all working-class and low-income people
Edited sentence: In such countries the focus tends to be on ensuring equal opportunity and, for example, targeted advertising campaigns to encourage ethnic minority candidates to join the police force.Though affirmative action in the US is primarily associated with racial issues, the American civil rights movement originally gave as its purpose the correction of a history of oppression against all working-class and low-income people (see Marxism)