The Latvian Parliament voted to support an amendment to the country’s Labour Law to explicitly ban sexual orientation discrimination in employment. Before the decision, Latvia was, according to ILGA-Europe, the only member state of the European Union which failed to comply with provisions of the 2000 EU employment equality directive requiring EU member states to […]
HP has been developing and implementing strategies to be a leader in the advancement of women in the technology business. The programmes seem to be successful, as approximately a third of their global executives are women and they are looking to increase their numbers at all levels of the organisation.
According to a report by the European Commission, 29 per cent of those employed as researchers are women. In the business and enterprise sector, the number is a dismal 18 per cent. Moreover, women are more likely to work in firms with lower R&D expenditures.
Inspectors specialising in monitoring working conditions of immigrant workers have been visiting workplaces for the past year in Finland. They have found shortcomings in the implementation of labour regulations at about half of workplaces where foreigners are employed.
Women with dependent children are less likely than those without to be employed. Based on UK statistics, fifty-six percent of mothers with children under the age of 5 are working. The number jumps to 77 per cent when the youngest child is aged 11 to 15. Conversely, men with dependent children are more likely than […]
The Conference Board announces its annual European Work-Life & Diversity event: Productivity is not traditionally “top of mind” for Diversity, Inclusion, and Work-Life management experts. However, business leaders and practitioners of diversity, inclusion, and work-life management can make major contributions to solving issues of their companies.
Iranian women’s rights activists are initiating a wide campaign demanding an end to legal discrimination against women in Iranian law. The Campaign aims to collect one million signatures to demand changes to discriminatory laws against women and is a follow-up effort to the peaceful protest of the same aim, which took place a few weeks […]
Ten years after reaching a cooperation agreement, IOM and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, have endorsed an updated agreement to address current global challenges on migration issues. The agreement particularly focuses on promoting the human rights of migrants and on combating sexual violence, with special emphasis on migrant girls and women.
Roughly two-thirds of Czech Romanies who were rejected as job seekers see the cause in employers’ racial prejudices, according to the results of a poll conducted by the Romany civic group Dzeno. The remaining one-third feel they failed due to insufficient skills, advanced age or because they don’t have a clean criminal record.
The Pakistani parliament will consider and likely approve a bill that would ease overly strict restrictions applied under Islamic law that make it nearly impossible to prove a woman has been raped. Under the Hadood Ordinance, developed by the former dictator Gen. Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq in 1979, rape victims are convicted of adultery unless they have […]
