In only 9 months of time, the European Disability Forum has met the ambitious challenge launched last January: to collect one million signatures across the European Union in favour of comprehensive EU disability legislation. The President of the European Disability Forum, Yannis Vardakastanis, announced this achievement to the 118 member organisations which were actively involved […]
The Migration Policy Group will develop together with Eurocities and Ethics etc… an innovative method for best practice identification among selected European cities with a comprehensive dissemination and dialogue strategy that will reach out to the wider European integration community.
Information collected by the FRA in 2006 points to ethnic discrimination and inequalities in employment, education and housing. An increase in recorded racist crimes has been noted in 8 of the 11 EU Member States that have collected adequate criminal justice data on racist violence and crime over a period of several years.
Plans of constructing mosques trigger more tensions than any other local issue in several European cities. All over Europe, mosque-building plans are inducing conflicts, particularly in local and municipal affairs. Supporters and opponents of the mosque construction plans have recognized that this issue is far more political explosive than drains or libraries. Mosque construction plans […]
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.“
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 […]
Weil ihr das Kopftuch verboten worden war, hat eine muslimische Sozialpädagogin eine Baskenmütze getragen. Ein deutsches Gericht hat ihr nun auch diese Kopfbedeckung verboten und eine Abmahnung für rechtens erklärt. Das Düsseldorfer Arbeitsgericht urteilte, dass eine Baskenmütze durchaus als Kopftuch getragen werden könne und deshalb unter das Kopftuchverbot für Lehrkräfte falle –
Eine Bestattungskosten-Police gehört bei deutschen Versicherungen zum Standardangebot. Bisher scheinen die Versicherer allerdings noch nicht bemerkt zu haben, dass auch deutsche MitbürgerInnen mit islamischem Glauben eines Tages sterben und für ihre Bestattung vorsorgen wollen. Wer in Deutschland eine traditionell islamische Bestattung („ikinci bahar“, zu deutsch „Zweiter Frühling“) versichern will, hat derzeit nur einen Ansprechpartner, der […]
