A Jewish food entrepreneur from Manchester designed an advent-style calendar for this month Ramadan, which has started on the 13th September and will last until 12th October. Under each of the 30 wickets, lies a halal chocolate and a question on the Islam. 15% from the sale will go to Islamic Relief. Mr. Finlay, the […]
The International Center for Black Women’s Perspectives (AFRA) is taking the European Year for Equal Opportunities for All as a challenge to organise the 1. Black European Women’s Congress from September 27-29 2007 in Vienna Austria.
Argentina will be the host country of the 2007 Lesbian-Gay World Soccer Championship from September 23rd until September 30th . Gay and lesbian teams began to pop up almost three decades ago and the International Gay and Lesbian Football Association was formed to act as a governing body for the sport.
According to the latest Best Value Performance Indicators (BVPIs) from the Audit Commission, the number of minority ethnic workers in the highest earning positions has risen for the first time since 2003. English councils reported that the number of minority ethnic workers rose from 2.6 per cent to 3.3 per cent in the top five […]
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.
The retail group METRO presented awards for their competition „Together.“ All Berlin-based employees had been asked to contribute ideas on how to better address customers‘ international diversity. Dr. Hans-Joachim Körber, CEO of the Metro Group, presented the awards to the winning teams. „More than 15 million people in Germany have an immigrant background. That is […]
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 […]
For the first time in history, the group of people over 65 (almost 500 million) outnumbers the number of children under the age of five. The report, Why Population Aging Matters: A Global Perspective, predicts: “Societal aging may affect economic growth, the sustainability of families, the ability of states and communities to provide resources for […]
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.
