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 […]
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.
“Es taugen doch nur Männer als echte Symbole“er kann die Massen erreichen und motivieren? Wer taugt als Vorbild, oder gar als (unerreichbares) Idol? Da in Deutschland Eliten verpönt sind, hält Hilde B. aus W. Ausschau nach volksnahen Ersatzikonen.Fündig wird sie in der Volksmusik, imVolkssport, auf Volksbühnen und neuerdings in Volks-TV-Shows.
The 2008 Global Summit of Women explores two of the major forces that will impact the 21st century global marketplace – Women and the Asia-Pacific economies. What women can do to access those markets and what we can learn from the women business leaders from the region will form the frame of this global gathering.
This campaign is promoting a Europe-wide petition for a new European Directive to outlaw discrimination. The main aim of this directive is to ban discrimination in access to goods and services on grounds of disability, age, sexual orientation and religion or belief – areas not currently covered in the EU anti-discrimination directives of many EU […]
LabforCulture develops innovative approaches, tools and technologies to strengthen, stimulate and facilitate cultural collaboration across geographic, cultural and imaginative borders. The platform is an autonomous project and hosted by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) in Amsterdam. Evidence showed that information on cultural cooperation across borders was difficult to access. Research carried out by the European […]
On Saturday 5 April 2008, Al Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC) broadcasted the first live episode from Europe of its debate show “Nadhra Ala…” (“a look onto…”), addressing the issue of Arab children’s integration in European countries, and their daily lives in the local communities. This special episode came as part of JCC’s commitment towards Arab […]
The approach Diversity was initially developed and used in the business context. Today, we notice the entry of Diversity into the political sphere. The book “Diversity Management. European Contributions to a Current Debate” collects experiences related to resource management and to job insertion. It presents 9 different approaches of how the idea of Diversity, to […]
Hungary was awarded a Certificate for Diversity by the Dutch civil organization Unity is Strength in recognition of the country’s achievements in the social integration of the Roma minority. State Secretary Edit Rauh who is in charge of equal opportunities in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, received the award on behalf of the […]
The upcoming European annual thematic conference on anti-discrimination will take place in Belfast on the 5-6 June 2008. The conference, organised by the European Commission, will be dedicated to the theme of communication and awareness-raising in the anti-discrimination and equality field. It will bring together current national projects on awareness-raising and successful projects from the […]
