The European Disability Forum (EDF) celebrates its tenth birthday with an ambitious project: unter the slogan “1Million4Disability – Make disability discrimination history”, the association starts a campaign that aims at the adoption of a EU equality directive. The EDF counted more than 50 million disabled people in the EU and demands the right to equal […]
International fast food chain McDonalds, being the target of criticism concerning the restaurant’s working conditions for years, has launched a career and lifestyle website for its 67,000 employees in the UK to support their future development.
Five multinational companies have been added to the AARP’s “National Employer Team”. Companies like Staples (office supplier), Home Depot (home improvement retailer) or ClientLogic (business process outsourcing services), who operate branches in Europe, Middle East and Asia, are now part of AARP’s list of companies that promote work for older people.
According to UNICEF’s “State of the World’s Children 2007 report”, inequality at home between men and women leads to poorer health for the children and greater poverty for the family. UNICEF surveyed family decision-making in 30 countries around the world and found that where women are excluded from family decision-making processes, children are more likely […]
In the last couple of years we have seen a further division of diversity, whereas the opposite should have taken place: globalization and international alliances should lead to consistency and connectivity. How can that be?
More than 180 countries around the world issue paper banknotes. Nearly all of them use specifications such as different sizes, different positions of a metallic strip or intaglio printing in order to make it easier for disabled people to distinguish between the different denomination. Yet, there is one country that doesn’t give disabled people the […]
Felix Wittig, head of communications at Ungleich Besser Diversity Consulting, is experiencing the world’s diversity for himself during a six-month around-the-world sabbatical. Every month, he shares his experiences with EMEA Diversity readers.
Al Jazeera, a well-known Arabic-language news network operating from Doha (Quatar), has started an English-speaking programme in mid-November. The news channel first gained international attention after the September 11 terrorist attacks because they broadcasted videos of Osama bin Laden.
According to a recent study by The World Economic Forum, men and women are less equal in Switzerland, France and Italy than in countries like Jamaica, Sri Lanka or South Africa. Focussing on female chances in economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, political empowerment and health, the WEF ranked Switzerland 25th, France 70th and Italy […]
After former British foreign secretary Jack Straw revealed that he asked female constituents to remove the niqab during interviews with him, a heated debate was started in Great Britain about a possible ban of the veil in public – a similar law has been created by the Dutch Government before.
