Homosexual inhabitants of the Faroe Islands have organised an online petition to create a law that bans discrimination based on sexual orientation. The petition expresses discontent that “homophobia is made “perfectly legal” because the government does nothing against it”, online news service “pinknews.co.uk” reported.
Glod is a quiet and poor village in the Carpatian mountains. This year, the Romanian village became the set for British Comedian Sasha Baron Cohen, also known as “Borat”, who starts his “Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” in the fictional village of “Kuczek”. His home is portrayed as being […]
Er poltert, pöbelt, polemisiert gegen Frauen und hält den jüdischen Bevölkerungsanteil für das größte Problem seines Landes: Borat Sagdiyev, kasachischer Fernsehjournalist und höchstoffizieller Botschafter seines Landes für die Vereinigten Staaten.
Immer wieder hat „DIE ZEIT“ die Themen Work-Life und Diversity zum Gegenstand ausführli-cher Berichterstattung genutzt. Überschriften wie „Diversity Management: Auf den Unterschied kommt es an“ fanden die LeserInnen der deutschen Wochenzeitung immer wieder bei ihrer Lektüre. Besonders zu erwähnen ist das jüngste Dossier der Hamburger Eliteredakteure über den Islam in Deutschland (DIE ZEIT vom 21. […]
A British Airways employee who was banned from openly wearing a small Christian cross fought for her job at a meeting with airline management.Nadia Eweida, 55, a check-in worker, spoke of her dismay after managers insisted she remove or cover up her small cross. When Ms Eweida refused she was sent home on unpaid leave.
Lawyers are preparing to sue the internet giant Yahoo over the imprisonment in China of Shi Tao, a journalist convicted of ‘illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities’ after he sent an email to a pro-democracy website. In 2004 Shi Tao sent an email to an American pro-democracy site about the anniversary of the 1989 […]
A female Muslim teacher was suspended by a Dutch school for refusing to shake hands with men. The management at Vader Rijn College asked the Equality Commission to examine the case to confirm whether it had acted correctly. The school teaches pre-vocational secondary education.
Women with dependent children are less likely than those without to be employed. Based on UK statistics, fifty-six percent of mothers with children under the age of 5 are working. The number jumps to 77 per cent when the youngest child is aged 11 to 15. Conversely, men with dependent children are more likely than […]
Roughly two-thirds of Czech Romanies who were rejected as job seekers see the cause in employers’ racial prejudices, according to the results of a poll conducted by the Romany civic group Dzeno. The remaining one-third feel they failed due to insufficient skills, advanced age or because they don’t have a clean criminal record.
The Pakistani parliament will consider and likely approve a bill that would ease overly strict restrictions applied under Islamic law that make it nearly impossible to prove a woman has been raped. Under the Hadood Ordinance, developed by the former dictator Gen. Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq in 1979, rape victims are convicted of adultery unless they have […]
