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.”
Two men were detained in Rome for kissing in front of the world famous Colosseum. In protest, hundreds of gay couples staged a mass kiss-in at the Colosseum to voice their continued displeasure with a reticent Italian government and society to grant them greater rights.
Most people generally imagine older citizens to be living in smaller, more rural areas, but a new study shows that big cities are increasingly harbouring retirement communities. Professor Victor G. Rodwin studied neighbourhoods in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo and found many places where almost 20 percent of the population is 65 years or […]
A report by National Savings and Investment, says that one fourth of women in the UK are expected to be the household’s breadwinner by the year 2030. For the moment, it found that women are increasingly contributing towards the household income and taking control of financial decisions, a dramatic shift from the 1950s.
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 […]
The Flemish minister for integration, Marino Keulen, is drafting a “diversity charter” for the catering industry which asks hotels, restaurants and cafés to openly support a hospitable and diverse society. Establishments that sign the charter are then granted a logo, a label for quality.
Aviva plc (”Aviva”), the international savings, investments and insurance group, has launched its global diversity learning resource, the ”Respect Diversity Toolkit,” an extensive online resource for Aviva’s 1,000 HR managers around the world. The launch was held in association with Diverse Culture and NB Global Diversity Practice, who worked with Aviva to produce the toolkit.
The most effective campaigns to encourage ethical consumption are those that take place at a collective level rather than those that target individual behaviour, a new study finds. The research suggests that ethical consumption is best understood as a political phenomenon rather than simply a market response to consumer demand.
In a poll conducted by Monster, 62 percent of UK businesses were either not diverse or unaware if they were. According to a local Scottish government white paper, minority groups and disabled people are still missing out on job opportunities.
