On the occasion of its 10th anniversary and as celebrations will take place during the European Year of Equal Opportunities 2007, the European Disability Forum (EDF) is launching an EU wide 1 million signatures campaign “1million4disability” in favour of a EU legislation to combat discrimination towards persons with disabilities.
A Danish art group has put up old Nazi propaganda posters in Berlin — sort of. The posters are altered to suggest Germany get rid of the states where support for neo-Nazis is strongest. The Danish art group “Surrend” has launched a new campaign to protest against the election success of the far-right National Democratic […]
Employers have again been warned to tighten their Diversity practices after it emerged that Microsoft UK stopped using a supplier due to its poor policy on the issue. Dave Gartenberg, HR director at Microsoft UK, said that the global IT firm was increasingly looking at its suppliers’ Diversity policies. “In one case, we changed provider […]
Mental ill health costs the UK economy ÂŁ10bn a year, claims a report by a leading disability insurer. A study by UnumProvident, in collaboration with analysts Oxford Economics, estimated that 10 million working days were lost due to stress, depression and anxiety in 2005/06.
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.
The Polish governmentâs proposed legislation to censor all discussion of homosexuality in schools and other academic institutions would violate freedom of speech and impede free access to information. On March 13, the deputy minister of education, Miroslaw Orzechowski, said that the government is developing legislation to âpunish anyone who promotes homosexualityâ in schools and education […]
The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions enter ed into force on 18 March. To date, 52 States have ratified the Convention. In an unprecedented event, the European Union adhered to the convention as a regional organization of economic integration.
Hundreds of thousands of men face salary cuts of up to ÂŁ15,000 to fund increases for women staff. Equal pay claims for up to 1.5 million public sector workers could cost the taxpayer more than ÂŁ10 billion and mean that hundreds of thousands of men will lose up to 40 per cent of their salary.
A large number of business leaders will only appoint a woman into a very senior post in times of crisis and poor performance, according to a new report. Women face a âhidden form of discriminationâ, which sees them more readily appointed to tough jobs where they are more likely to fail, according to Women in […]
Employers are failing to understand the genuine business benefits of diversity, with âold schoolâ attitudes still outweighing genuine understanding of the issues. Thatâs the verdict of a study from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) which suggests many businesses are missing out on the benefits that good practice could deliver. The report
