A female Muslim teacher was suspended by a Dutch school for refusing to shake hands with men. The management at Vader Rijn College asked the Equality Commission to examine the case to confirm whether it had acted correctly. The school teaches pre-vocational secondary education.
Women with dependent children are less likely than those without to be employed. Based on UK statistics, fifty-six percent of mothers with children under the age of 5 are working. The number jumps to 77 per cent when the youngest child is aged 11 to 15. Conversely, men with dependent children are more likely than […]
Neulich beim Einkauf, zehn Leute in der Schlange, mein Blick wandert über das Förderband. An der Kasse lese ich auf einem Schild: „Um Missverständnisse mit der Kassiererin zu vermeiden, legen Sie bitte alle Waren auf das Förderband“. Mein Blick wandert über die Kasse hinweg. Dort sitzt Thorsten, 28 Jahre alt, ausgebildeter Einzelhandelskaufmann. Mann? Stand da […]
Roughly two-thirds of Czech Romanies who were rejected as job seekers see the cause in employers’ racial prejudices, according to the results of a poll conducted by the Romany civic group Dzeno. The remaining one-third feel they failed due to insufficient skills, advanced age or because they don’t have a clean criminal record.
The Pakistani parliament will consider and likely approve a bill that would ease overly strict restrictions applied under Islamic law that make it nearly impossible to prove a woman has been raped. Under the Hadood Ordinance, developed by the former dictator Gen. Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq in 1979, rape victims are convicted of adultery unless they have […]
Romano Prodi’s victory in the Italian elections a few moths ago is a positive step in the acceptance of Italian gay, lesbian, and transgender population. The Prodi-led centre-left coalition included five lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people elected as members of the Italian parliament. In this case,
Immigrants in Spain are emerging as a powerful new force in the Spanish economy, raising demand for housing, which in turn is sustaining the country’s construction boom. With the rising demand for housing, increased demand for skilled immigrant construction workers has also risen. The flow on effect of increased immigration to Spain has led to […]
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has told newspaper editors to stop publishing pictures of women as they could lead young men astray. After a meeting with editors end of May, the king was reported in the Saudi media as saying that “one needs to think if he would want his daughter, sister or wife to […]
Twenty-two year old Hayley Tudor has won £20,000 damages against a former employer who had sacked her after she had a stroke and became blind. The case was supported by the DRC, Action for Blind People and Trafford Law Centre. Hayley was dismissed from her job as an animal nursing assistant after she had a […]
Gewinner des Journalistenpreises „Für Vielfalt. Gegen Diskriminierung“ sind in diesem Jahr zwei niederländische Journalisten, die für die Zeitschrift Vrij Nederland arbeiten. Der Sieger-Beitrag, von Sander Donkers und Harm Ede Botje, setzt sich mit ethnischer und rassischer Diskriminierung vor allem junger Muslime auf dem Arbeitsmarkt auseinander – einem Problem, das zahlreiche europäi-sche Länder betrifft.
