In Deutschland und anderswo buhlen Unternehmen um Auszeichnungen, die ihnen ein besonderes Engagement um die „Work/Life-Balance“ ihrer Mitarbeiter attestieren. Ein Preis für Familien, die ihr Privatleben und den Job besonders geschickt unter einen Hut bringen, gibt es in Deutschland bislang noch nicht. In der Schweiz dürfen sich jedoch bereits die ersten Familien über eine solche […]
Just on time for this year’s UEFA European Championships 2008 in Austria and Switzerland, FARE has launched a new website on its activities. The website is available in English, French, German and Italian and offers news and information on anti-racist initiatives in football throughout Europe.
More than half a million Roma of working age live in Spain, however the number entering the labour market remains low. 55% of Roma people report that they have experienced some sort of discrimination when being on the job search. The Spanish organisation, Fundación Secretariado Gitano, has initiated an awareness-raising campaign, featuring TV advertisements, posters […]
From May to October, 38 Allianz employees from various countries will participate in „Diversity@ Sea”, a global Diversity Initiative by the Allianz Group. The program will team them up for a week with disabled participants to sail tall ships off the coasts of Britain and France. Each week, they will share living quarters and learn […]
The European Commission awarded its Gold Prize for Learning to CEJI (“A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe”) for its Religious Diversity and Anti-Discrimination Training program. Recognising CEJI’s work on religious Diversity and intercultural education in Europe, the prize is a part of the European Awards for Lifelong Learning.
Although it is not a new book, we feel the readers of EMEA DiversityNews should know about it. Globalisation is probably one of the most important drivers of Diversity from a corporate (business) perspective. At the same time, it is a concept that is understood differently by different people, and provokes a variety of feelings […]
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 […]
Europe is becoming more culturally diverse. The enlargement of the European Union, deregulation of employment laws and globalisation have increased the multicultural character of many countries. To celebrate this diversity and to foster intercultural dialogue the EU has launched the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue (EYID) 2008”. It is supposed to encourage all those living […]
RWE npower is one of the UK’s Top 50 employers for women, according to the latest list published by Aurora – a business women’s diversity network. To make it into the Top 50 organisations have to prove themselves in five key areas, including the opportunities that they provide women; having progressive, transparent cultures and the […]
Als erster Landkreis Brandenburgs wird Dahme-Spreewald zum September dieses Jahres ein kostenloses Vorschuljahr in Kitas einführen. Darauf haben sich die Koalitionspartner CDU und SPD verständigt. Mit der Initiative könnten schon bald rund 1200 Kinder die Kita im letzten Jahr unentgeltlich besuchen, und statt wie bisher sieben Kinder würden die Erzieher nur noch sechs Kinder betreuen.
