A Danish study, supported by the Integration Ministry, has found that many immigrants in the workplace have problems interpreting the less concrete communication forms used by their Danish colleagues. Danish workplace culture is often difficult for employees of foreign background to understand, and their unknowing failure to follow accepted behaviours can discourage them. The study […]
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.
“I want to address myself to the women,” Ségolène Royal declared a few days before the elections in France. “I need the women’s vote,” she said,“ it is time to put an end to centuries of injustice, of marginalization.” She has been much criticised by her political antagonists, as well as columnists, for addressing 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.
Indonesia. The moment we alighted in Bali, the sweet smell of incense penetrated the air and we felt ourselves in another world. In comparison to Australia, Indonesia is replete with finesse and grace: decorative temples pepper the landscape and flowery offerings to the Gods line the foot paths around the island.
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.
“One of the reasons diversity pioneers invented this concept back in the 1980s was to add a more positive and business-orientated perspective to what had been mainly a legal compliance issue. Consequently, a comprehensive approach was developed into more outward-driven programmes that aimed at supporting business results (“diversity for the bottom line”), beyond reasons of […]
New Zealand. We reach a country ‘on the other side of the earth’ (seen from our home country) after eleven hours onboard a plane from South America. Friendly and helpful people walk around the streets of Auckland in their ‘flip flops’. Everything in the largest city of New Zealand looks ‘very British’. The appearance of […]
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has officially been adopted by the UN General Assembly. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities represents a historical moment for the European disability movement.
A December Eurobarometer survey shows attitudes towards homosexuality vary widely across EU Member States. An average of 44% of EU citizens believe that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. Acceptance levels range from 82% in The Netherlands to 12% in Latvia. Marriage – or a similar legal union – is currently possible in the […]
