Es ist eine simple Rechnung: Allein die Frauen könnten bei der kommenden Bundestagswahl die absolute Mehrheit erzielen. Nähmen sie von den Männern noch die hinzu, die nicht ‚Mainstream’ sind, könnten sie gemeinsam die Verfassung ändern – und zwar selbst dann, wenn es viele sogenannte Abweichler gäbe. Abweichler – das ist einer jener Begriffe, die sehr […]
The “Disability Matters Europe” conference was held in Paris from 12th till 13th of June. The conference, organised by Springboard Consulting, features experts from corporations, academia, government and non-profit sector who share best practices with regard to successfully embarking on the special needs workforce.
When the Human Rights Watch published their World Report 2013 drawing on events from the end of 2011 through November 2012, they detected great injustice and violent procedures, that were still undermining people’s rights. Improving fundamental rights and living conditions of ethnic and religious minorities is still an issue, for instance in Somalia or Iraq […]
Einfach „bunt“ – auf diese griffige Formel brachte Moderatorin Dunja Hayali die Beschreibung dessen, was Diversity für sie im Kern ausmacht. Deutlich mehr punktete sie beim Publikum der Verleihung des Deutschen Diversity Preises in Berlin mit ihrer Selbstbeschreibung eines „Migrationsvordergrundes“. Gekonnte Zuspitzung wie es sich für einen solchen Anlass gehört. Ein Anlass, der wohl vor […]
The introduction of the digital TV led to problems for partially sighted and blind people as this technical revolution made watching TV impossible for them: While in the past a combination of hearing, residual sight, and audio description (AD) was used to describe what was shown on-screen, this information nowadays is written on the screen […]
IBM, SFR, Sodexo, Dell and Renault were announced to be the 2013 European Disability Matters honourees. The announcement was made in the run-up to the Disability Matter Award which annually honours forward-thinking companies committed to successfully mainstreaming disability in the areas of marketplace, workforce and workplace. This year’s winners will be
Do Diversity programmes survive economic downturn? This is one interesting question that also leads to the question what happens to diversity target groups when times get tough? Current analysis show that economic crisis have a significant, negative impact on discrimination in the workplace ‘due to performance effects’. According to reports in the French newspaper ‘Le […]
Wir können viel erzählen: Über Vielfalt, Aufgeschlossenheit und Einbeziehung. Aber was bedeuten diese Konzepte schon im Alltag? In unserem Alltag? Im Arbeitsalltag unserer Zielgruppen? Und wichtiger noch: Sind wir in der Lage, unsere Anliegen so zu vermitteln, dass Kollegen, Kunden und kritische Investoren etwas damit anfangen können?
Young people that are disabled or are having health problems have been unnoticed by both employment policy and practices. This is a key result of a current report from the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (‘Eurofound’) discussing the active inclusion of these youngsters. The main aim of the research was […]
‘Broad and inclusive’ – experts nowadays agree that the concept of Diversity embraces many if not numerous or even all kinds of differences. But when it comes to concrete implementation and active promotion of distinct dimensions, more or less rigorous choices are being made. A couple of years ago, those choices were made regarding what […]
