The Migration Policy Group will develop together with Eurocities and Ethics etc… an innovative method for best practice identification among selected European cities with a comprehensive dissemination and dialogue strategy that will reach out to the wider European integration community.
Information collected by the FRA in 2006 points to ethnic discrimination and inequalities in employment, education and housing. An increase in recorded racist crimes has been noted in 8 of the 11 EU Member States that have collected adequate criminal justice data on racist violence and crime over a period of several years.
The retail group METRO presented awards for their competition “Together.” All Berlin-based employees had been asked to contribute ideas on how to better address customers’ international diversity. Dr. Hans-Joachim Körber, CEO of the Metro Group, presented the awards to the winning teams. “More than 15 million people in Germany have an immigrant background. That is […]
As Diversity becomes more and more relevant three of the world’s largest financial institutions, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, are seeking Diversity information from their legal advisors. Legal firms who are pitching for business are expected to inform the banks on diversity statistics relating to their employees’ backgrounds.
Plans of constructing mosques trigger more tensions than any other local issue in several European cities. All over Europe, mosque-building plans are inducing conflicts, particularly in local and municipal affairs. Supporters and opponents of the mosque construction plans have recognized that this issue is far more political explosive than drains or libraries. Mosque construction plans […]
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.”
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.
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.
