As Diversity becomes more and more relevant three of the world’s largest financial institutions, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, are seeking Diversity information from their legal advisors. Legal firms who are pitching for business are expected to inform the banks on diversity statistics relating to their employees’ backgrounds.
Plans of constructing mosques trigger more tensions than any other local issue in several European cities. All over Europe, mosque-building plans are inducing conflicts, particularly in local and municipal affairs. Supporters and opponents of the mosque construction plans have recognized that this issue is far more political explosive than drains or libraries. Mosque construction plans […]
For the first time in history, the group of people over 65 (almost 500 million) outnumbers the number of children under the age of five. The report, Why Population Aging Matters: A Global Perspective, predicts: “Societal aging may affect economic growth, the sustainability of families, the ability of states and communities to provide resources for […]
Mit einer beherzten Kampagne zeigt die Baumarkt-Kette Hornbach, dass Ă„uĂźerlichkeiten keine Bedeutung haben – wenn es um die Heimwerker-Leidenschaft geht und darĂĽber hinaus. Der ideale Baumarktkunde sah bisher so aus: kräftige Arme, solide Figur, flink und fingerfertig. Dass Heimwerken in Deutschland, dem Land der Hobbybastler, eine Freizeitbeschäftigung fĂĽr jedermann darstellt, zeigt der Baumarktbetreiber Hornbach jetzt […]
ForscherInnen aus Bochum und Dortmund haben das Ruhrgebiet als „demografisches Experimentierfeld“ markiert. „Zukunft des Alterns“, kurz ZudA, heißt das Projekt, das die Chancen einer alternden Gesellschaft ausloten will. Bald soll es einen eigenen Studiengang geben, und das Gemeinschaftsprojekt der Universitäten Bochum und Dortmund zum interdisziplinären Kompetenzzentrum für den demografischen Wandel werden.
In Hamburg müssen homosexuelle Eisenbahnfreunde ab sofort einen großen Bogen um das „Arcadia Hotel Belmondo“ machen. Die Unterkunft untersagte kürzlich der Vereinigung „Schwule Eisenbahnerfreunde“ die Nutzung eines bis dahin ihnen zur Verfügung stehenden Raumes. Vorausgegangen war ein Eigentümerwechsel des Hauses. Die neue Geschäftsführerin ließ die Gruppe des Raumes verweisen.
Pratibha Patil, India’s first female president, has vowed to eliminate the practice of aborting female fetuses and to empower women, who are often treated as second-class citizens. “Empowerment of women is particularly important to me as I believe this leads to the empowerment of the nation,” she told lawmakers, calling for universal education in India.
Tintin is under investigation by the Belgium’s state prosecutor after a Congolese student, Mondondo Bienvenu, took legal action claiming HergĂ©’s controversial Tintin In The Congo “constitutes an insult for all the Congolese” and should be banned. He says, “it is propaganda for colonialism.”
Two men were detained in Rome for kissing in front of the world famous Colosseum. In protest, hundreds of gay couples staged a mass kiss-in at the Colosseum to voice their continued displeasure with a reticent Italian government and society to grant them greater rights.
Most people generally imagine older citizens to be living in smaller, more rural areas, but a new study shows that big cities are increasingly harbouring retirement communities. Professor Victor G. Rodwin studied neighbourhoods in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo and found many places where almost 20 percent of the population is 65 years or […]
