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 Hergé’s controversial Tintin In The Congo “constitutes an insult for all the Congolese” and should be banned. He says, “it is propaganda for colonialism.”
Air travel will have gotten easier for disabled passengers in the EU with a passing of a new law to protect their rights. It is now categorically illegal to deny an elderly or disabled passenger to fly anywhere within the EU. Next year the law will expand to ensure passengers with reduced mobility not be […]
The European Network Against Racism (ENAR) has released a report showing that ethnic and religious minorities face discrimination and disadvantage across European education systems, concluding that the goals of the Lisbon strategy of making the EU more competitive with greater social cohesion and in preparing its citizens for a more diverse Europe are not being […]
Weil ihr das Kopftuch verboten worden war, hat eine muslimische Sozialpädagogin eine Baskenmütze getragen. Ein deutsches Gericht hat ihr nun auch diese Kopfbedeckung verboten und eine Abmahnung für rechtens erklärt. Das Düsseldorfer Arbeitsgericht urteilte, dass eine Baskenmütze durchaus als Kopftuch getragen werden könne und deshalb unter das Kopftuchverbot für Lehrkräfte falle –
Eine Bestattungskosten-Police gehört bei deutschen Versicherungen zum Standardangebot. Bisher scheinen die Versicherer allerdings noch nicht bemerkt zu haben, dass auch deutsche MitbürgerInnen mit islamischem Glauben eines Tages sterben und für ihre Bestattung vorsorgen wollen. Wer in Deutschland eine traditionell islamische Bestattung („ikinci bahar“, zu deutsch „Zweiter Frühling“) versichern will, hat derzeit nur einen Ansprechpartner, der […]
The World Health Organization has released a pamphlet about work-related stress in developing countries which is an issue of growing concern in developing countries due to important developments in the modern world. Two of the most significant changes are globalisation and the changing nature of work.
A new “Ethnic Friendly” label has been introduced by the IQ Roma Servis Czech Romany Association to promote and appreciate those employers who do not discriminate job applicants on the grounds of their ethnic origin. The project also aims at motivating other companies to acquire non-discriminatory practices.
The European Commission has published its proposal for the establishment of common principles of flexicurity to promote more and better jobs by combining flexibility and security for workers and companies. On one hand, flexibility ensures workers can move easily into a job, and between jobs.
Many countries still have no legislation against employers’ ability to use genetic tests in their recruitment of staff, which essentially mounts to discrimination in employment based on genetic make-up. Experience has shown that people can be subject to unfair treatment for conditions they may develop even if they have no symptoms, because of misunderstanding or […]
