New Zealand. We reach a country ‘on the other side of the earth’ (seen from our home country) after eleven hours onboard a plane from South America. Friendly and helpful people walk around the streets of Auckland in their ‘flip flops’. Everything in the largest city of New Zealand looks ‘very British’. The appearance of […]
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has officially been adopted by the UN General Assembly. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities represents a historical moment for the European disability movement.
A December Eurobarometer survey shows attitudes towards homosexuality vary widely across EU Member States. An average of 44% of EU citizens believe that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. Acceptance levels range from 82% in The Netherlands to 12% in Latvia. Marriage – or a similar legal union – is currently possible in the […]
Die einstige Bundeshauptstadt Bonn ist eine internationale Gemeinde, in der Menschen aus 173 Na-tionen zusammenleben. 22,4 % der Bonnerinnen und Bonner haben einen Migrationshintergrund. Diesem Umstand trägt die Bonner Stadtverwaltung jetzt mit einem umfangreichen Integrationskon-zept Rechnung. „Unsere Gesellschaft könne es sich nicht erlauben, den jungen Menschen mit Mi-grationshintergrund, die in einigen Bonner Stadtteilen bereits die […]
The European Disability Forum (EDF) celebrates its tenth birthday with an ambitious project: unter the slogan „1Million4Disability – Make disability discrimination history“, the association starts a campaign that aims at the adoption of a EU equality directive. The EDF counted more than 50 million disabled people in the EU and demands the right to equal […]
International fast food chain McDonalds, being the target of criticism concerning the restaurant’s working conditions for years, has launched a career and lifestyle website for its 67,000 employees in the UK to support their future development.
Five multinational companies have been added to the AARP’s „National Employer Team“. Companies like Staples (office supplier), Home Depot (home improvement retailer) or ClientLogic (business process outsourcing services), who operate branches in Europe, Middle East and Asia, are now part of AARP’s list of companies that promote work for older people.
According to UNICEF’s „State of the World’s Children 2007 report“, inequality at home between men and women leads to poorer health for the children and greater poverty for the family. UNICEF surveyed family decision-making in 30 countries around the world and found that where women are excluded from family decision-making processes, children are more likely […]
In the last couple of years we have seen a further division of diversity, whereas the opposite should have taken place: globalization and international alliances should lead to consistency and connectivity. How can that be?
More than 180 countries around the world issue paper banknotes. Nearly all of them use specifications such as different sizes, different positions of a metallic strip or intaglio printing in order to make it easier for disabled people to distinguish between the different denomination. Yet, there is one country that doesn’t give disabled people the […]
