The Yogyakarta Principles on the ‘Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity’ were released this month by a group of 29 international human rights experts. Groundbreaking international legal principles on sexual orientation, gender identity, and international law chart a way forward for both the United Nations and governments […]
With the support of China, Russia and Cuba, Moslem and Arab states pushed through a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Council urging a global prohibition on the public defamation of religion. The Council expresses “deep concern at attempts to identify Islam with terrorism, violence and human rights violations.
To date, flexible working law in the UK has enabled parents with a child under 6 or a disabled child under 18 to make a request for flexible working, and places a duty on employers to consider such requests seriously and only reject them for good business reasons. But as of 6 April 2007 the […]
Migration will not provide a long-term solution to Europe’s ageing crisis. Instead, policymakers must focus on getting people to have more babies while working ‘longer and better’, business leaders declared at the European Business Summit. Soon, more than half of the European population will be over 40.
Eine erste Klage gegen das Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz ist in erster Instanz gescheitert. Das Arbeitsgericht Frankfurt wies eine Beschwerde von Piloten zurück, die eine Altersgrenze von 60 Jahren als Diskriminierung empfanden. Wie die Richter feststellten, sei das Mittel der Altersgrenze ebenso wie die konkrete Begrenzung auf 60 Jahre auf den Schutz von Leib und Leben der […]
Wo hört die freie Entfaltung individueller Identität auf – und wann wirken sich gemeinsame kulturelle Werte als Verhaltensregeln oder-zwänge aus? Auf diese Grundsatz-frage musste sich die Kopftuch diskussion zuspitzen, weil sie jahrzehntelang verdrängt, ignoriert und somit nicht gelöst wurde.
Bildung bietet Chancen –solange man nicht gegen Vorurteile kämpfen muss. Der Artikel von Anne Haeming auf Spiegel Online zeigt, wie ein Kopftuch zur unangepassten Karrierebremse wird. Zum Artikel
The Nigerian National Assembly is once again attempting to pass an anti-LGBT bill that failed to go through last year because of strong condemnation from the US and Europe. Billed as an anti-gay-marriage act, it is a far-reaching assault on basic rights of association, assembly and expression. The legislation has the full and enthusiastic support […]
A white woman who claims she was racially harassed by “jokes” insulting black people has won the right to take her case to an employment tribunal. Pat Gravell, 45, says that her former employer did nothing to stamp out the racist emails and text messages.
Spain has enacted a new sex equality bill which will enforce quotas for women in companies and on electoral lists. The gender equality bill includes parity on the electoral lists and stipulates that by 2015, women should occupy 40 percent of the seats on the boards of the country’s biggest corporations.
