Together with the Hungarian Equality Authority, the campaign, “For Diversity. Against Discrimination,” organised a workshop to help fight discrimination in the country. In a full day training course, participants from NGOs were taught new methods for auditing recruitment practices of Hungarian companies.
A London Metropolitan University professor is developing a test intended to reveal negative associations that potential employees could have toward ethnic groups. In the test, applicants have to put images of black and white faces into positive and negative categories by quickly using the arrow keys on the keyboard.
The European Stability Initiative (ESI) launched a report on gender equality in Turkey last week. The report, “Sex and power in Turkey” claims that gender equality in Turkey is largely a popular myth. The country scores poorly in global league tables on gender equality.
The Danish economy is losing steam because of a lack of manpower. With this period full employment, gains have become increasingly difficult to attain; figures released this month point to GNP growth rate of just 1.8 percent for the year.
If the Czech parliament passes a new anti-discrimination bill, the country will see its first anti-discrimination law in effect by January 2008. The bill, introduced by government this month, should have been adopted by the country with its EU entry in 2004. But many Czechs feel its necessity does not only derive out of the […]
While equality between genders is increasing in the gulf, some countries are recording setbacks. Last month legislation in the United Arab Emirates was paving the way for flexible working, precisely to allow women to pursue careers and retain their traditionally family roles.
An increasing number of German companies and organisations are signing their names to the Diversity Charter initiated by DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche BP and Deutsche Telekom with Minister of State Maria Böhmer in December.
The Law of Equality passed last year is not the sole motivator towards the trend of flexible working. An increasing amount of Spanish companies value this tool as a means of holding on to valuable staff. The list of initiatives is growing and they are becoming more sophisticated, from physiotherapy to gym memberships to help […]
This project is addressed to artists, confectioners, bakers, chefs and creatives, who are interested in the realisation of an artistic project which aims to promote the meeting and dialogue among cultures, through the distribution of new sweet recipes around the Mediterranean countries, made by the Love Difference confectioneries.
From this year on Norwegian law requires publicly listed corporations to have at least 40 percent women on their boards of directors. The legislation was actually introduced in 2003, but gave companies five years to bring more women onto their boards with a January 1, 2008 deadline. According to the law, companies that failed to […]
