Many people have negative perceptions about ageing. To dispel negativity around ageing and to emphasis the positive aspects that ageing holds for older people, the positive ageing week was celebrated in Ireland at the beginning of this month. This year over 400 events took place across the country and spread even into Northern Ireland trough […]
Recent activities of far-Right groups targeting the building of mosques in the UK mirror events elsewhere in Europe. At the beginning of 2007, the European extreme Right formed a new bloc in the European parliament called Identity, Tradition and Sovereignty (ITS) to protect ‚Christian values‘ and ‚Europe’s traditional heritage‘.
Demographic change, particularly workforce ageing, will start to affect all of Europe in a substantive way and over a surprisingly short period of time. EU companies have great potential to improve their readiness to face such change by sharpening their demographic fitness according to a survey conducted by Adecco Institute.
The Orbit Group is celebrating after receiving another award for its Equality & Diversity work. The National Black and New Communities Residents Network (NBNC) have recognised the work carried out by the Orbit Group. It comes after the Group won the Diversity & Race award at this year’s National Housing Federation Neighbourhood Awards.
According to the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) Sweden is at the top of EU countries that are making a genuine effort to stimulate the integration of immigrants. The MIPEX measures policies to integrate migrants in 25 EU Member States and 3 non-EU countries.
The European Union’s executive commission argued for more linguistic diversity across Europe, stating that knowing more languages can boost cultural diversity, economic growth and intercultural understanding. Leonard Orban, EU commissioner in charge of multilingualism supported the idea to encourage the teaching of two extra languages to students from an early age at schools across the […]
Businesses in Scotland are being urged to embrace diversity to improve performance and productivity. A new initiative, Equality Matters in Business (EMB), has been jointly set up by Scottish Enterprise (SE), Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and the Scottish Government to highlight the positive benefits of employing a diverse workforce and considering diversity in service […]
This year, The Employers Forum on Age (EFA) launched a new annual awards programme. The awards ceremony, in October 2007, highlighted the innovative ways employers are tackling age discrimination in the workplace. In the six months since the award programme was launched, over 45 different policies and age initiatives were entered.
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 […]
A new report commissioned by the Trades Union Congress reveals that thousands of Polish and Lithuanian workers are being exploited at work in the UK. Over 475,000 Lithuanian and Polish workers have come to work in the UK since 2004.
