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CEJI awarded for Religious Diversity Training

The European Commission awarded its Gold Prize for Learning to CEJI (“A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe”) for its Religious Diversity and Anti-Discrimination Training program. Recognising CEJI’s work on religious Diversity and intercultural education in Europe, the prize is a part of the European Awards for Lifelong Learning.

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The L’Oréal – Unesco Awards 2008 for women in science

The L’Oréal – Unesco Awards aim to recognize, each year, five outstanding women researchers who have contributed to scientific progress. These exceptional women scientists serve as role models for the next generation, encouraging young women around the world to follow in their footsteps. Almost two thousand eminent members of the scientific community propose candidates for […]

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Siemens-Chef Löscher bekennt: Wir sind zu deutsch

Peter Löscher sorgte mit einem überraschenden Bekenntnis für Furore: Der Siemens-Chef findet sein Unternehmen zu deutsch. „In der Führungsetage sitzen nur weiße Männer“, sagte Löscher der „Financial Times Deutschland“. Unter den 600 Spitzenmanagern des Großkonzerns seien nur wenige Frauen und Ausländer zu finden. Die deutsche Wirtschaft müsse insgesamt internationaler werden. Sonst drohe die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des […]

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Creative Destruction, by Tyler Cowen

Although it is not a new book, we feel the readers of EMEA DiversityNews should know about it. Globalisation is probably one of the most important drivers of Diversity from a corporate (business) perspective. At the same time, it is a concept that is understood differently by different people, and provokes a variety of feelings […]

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Portuguese journalist wins “For Diversity Against Discrimination” press award 2007

The first prize in this year’s ‘For Diversity. Against Discrimination’ Journalist Award has been awarded to a Portuguese journalist writing about the discrimination faced by migrant workers in the Netherlands. The European Commission honoured those journalists who helped foster, through their writing, a better understanding of the benefits of diversity and who encouraged readers to […]

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Diversity Toolkit for TV programmes

How can TV professionals better reflect cultural diversity on screen? This is the key question behind a “Diversity Toolkit for factual programmes in public service television”, published by FRA, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. The Toolkit seeks to equip TV professionals to promote the principles of cultural diversity across their services.

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Opening of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue

Europe is becoming more culturally diverse. The enlargement of the European Union, deregulation of employment laws and globalisation have increased the multicultural character of many countries. To celebrate this diversity and to foster intercultural dialogue the EU has launched the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue (EYID) 2008”. It is supposed to encourage all those living […]

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Police trained against Discrimination in Czech Republic

Over 1,000 Czech police officers have been trained against discrimination by various NGO activists. The seminars were to narrow the gap between the world of the police and residents of socially excluded localities such as Romas. The anti-discrimination seminars have been held at all regional police offices in the Czech Republic since February 2007.

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RWE npower: Employer of choice for women

RWE npower is one of the UK’s Top 50 employers for women, according to the latest list published by Aurora – a business women’s diversity network. To make it into the Top 50 organisations have to prove themselves in five key areas, including the opportunities that they provide women; having progressive, transparent cultures and the […]

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Europe’s first LGBT nursing home opens in Berlin

In January this year Europe’s first gay nursing home opened in Berlin. The groundbreaking project culminates years of planning, fund-raising and public campaigning. Berlin’s mayor, Klaus Wowereit, has backed the project from its beginnings. The four-floor facility is built to accommodate 28 residents in its high-tech rooms with private bathrooms.

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