The first prize in this year’s ‚For Diversity. Against Discrimination‘ Journalist Award has been awarded to a Portuguese journalist writing about the discrimination faced by migrant workers in the Netherlands. The European Commission honoured those journalists who helped foster, through their writing, a better understanding of the benefits of diversity and who encouraged readers to […]
In January this year Europe’s first gay nursing home opened in Berlin. The groundbreaking project culminates years of planning, fund-raising and public campaigning. Berlin’s mayor, Klaus Wowereit, has backed the project from its beginnings. The four-floor facility is built to accommodate 28 residents in its high-tech rooms with private bathrooms.
„Es taugen doch nur Männer als echte Symbole“er kann die Massen erreichen und motivieren? Wer taugt als Vorbild, oder gar als (unerreichbares) Idol? Da in Deutschland Eliten verpönt sind, hält Hilde B. aus W. Ausschau nach volksnahen Ersatzikonen.Fündig wird sie in der Volksmusik, imVolkssport, auf Volksbühnen und neuerdings in Volks-TV-Shows.
The 2008 Global Summit of Women explores two of the major forces that will impact the 21st century global marketplace – Women and the Asia-Pacific economies. What women can do to access those markets and what we can learn from the women business leaders from the region will form the frame of this global gathering.
This campaign is promoting a Europe-wide petition for a new European Directive to outlaw discrimination. The main aim of this directive is to ban discrimination in access to goods and services on grounds of disability, age, sexual orientation and religion or belief – areas not currently covered in the EU anti-discrimination directives of many EU […]
LabforCulture develops innovative approaches, tools and technologies to strengthen, stimulate and facilitate cultural collaboration across geographic, cultural and imaginative borders. The platform is an autonomous project and hosted by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) in Amsterdam. Evidence showed that information on cultural cooperation across borders was difficult to access. Research carried out by the European […]
Diversity Management – ursprünglich in der Wirtschaft entwickelt – findet zunehmend Eingang in weitere Gesellschaftsbereiche und die Politik. Die von Prof. Peter Guggemos herausgegebene, europäische Aufsatzsammlung zeigt, wie mit Diversity Management interkulturelles Lernen erfolgreich gemeistert werden kann. Das Buch greift unter anderem Gleichstellungsthemen aus dem Bereich der Arbeitsvermittlung benachteiligter Gruppen auf: Das Prager Beispiel der […]
Homosexualität ist nicht nur ein Thema für Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene. Die Familie darf bei der Aufklärungsarbeit nicht ausgeklammert werden. Besonders in Migrationsfamilien ist dies jedoch häufig noch ein Tabuthema. Genau hier setzt das Handbuch des Familien- und Sozialverein des Lesben- und Schwulenverbandes in Deutschland (LSVD) an. Der Reader ist auf die Praxis und den […]
On Saturday 5 April 2008, Al Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC) broadcasted the first live episode from Europe of its debate show “Nadhra Ala…” („a look onto…“), addressing the issue of Arab children’s integration in European countries, and their daily lives in the local communities. This special episode came as part of JCC’s commitment towards Arab […]
The approach Diversity was initially developed and used in the business context. Today, we notice the entry of Diversity into the political sphere. The book “Diversity Management. European Contributions to a Current Debate” collects experiences related to resource management and to job insertion. It presents 9 different approaches of how the idea of Diversity, to […]
