ForscherInnen aus Bochum und Dortmund haben das Ruhrgebiet als „demografisches Experimentierfeld“ markiert. „Zukunft des Alterns“, kurz ZudA, heißt das Projekt, das die Chancen einer alternden Gesellschaft ausloten will. Bald soll es einen eigenen Studiengang geben, und das Gemeinschaftsprojekt der Universitäten Bochum und Dortmund zum interdisziplinären Kompetenzzentrum für den demografischen Wandel werden.
In Hamburg müssen homosexuelle Eisenbahnfreunde ab sofort einen großen Bogen um das „Arcadia Hotel Belmondo“ machen. Die Unterkunft untersagte kürzlich der Vereinigung „Schwule Eisenbahnerfreunde“ die Nutzung eines bis dahin ihnen zur Verfügung stehenden Raumes. Vorausgegangen war ein Eigentümerwechsel des Hauses. Die neue Geschäftsführerin ließ die Gruppe des Raumes verweisen.
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.“
Two men were detained in Rome for kissing in front of the world famous Colosseum. In protest, hundreds of gay couples staged a mass kiss-in at the Colosseum to voice their continued displeasure with a reticent Italian government and society to grant them greater rights.
Most people generally imagine older citizens to be living in smaller, more rural areas, but a new study shows that big cities are increasingly harbouring retirement communities. Professor Victor G. Rodwin studied neighbourhoods in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo and found many places where almost 20 percent of the population is 65 years or […]
A report by National Savings and Investment, says that one fourth of women in the UK are expected to be the household’s breadwinner by the year 2030. For the moment, it found that women are increasingly contributing towards the household income and taking control of financial decisions, a dramatic shift from the 1950s.
Air travel will have gotten easier for disabled passengers in the EU with a passing of a new law to protect their rights. It is now categorically illegal to deny an elderly or disabled passenger to fly anywhere within the EU. Next year the law will expand to ensure passengers with reduced mobility not be […]
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.
