Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Discrimination" produced 148 items.
| 1. Different views on equality | November 18, 2010 |
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EU agency says more needs to be done to achieve equality. A decade after the European Union passed a law against racial discrimination in the workplace, equal treatment is... |
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| 2. Reding to unveil plan to tackle discrimination | November 4, 2010 |
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Strategy would bring EU into line with the UN, but campaigners call for tough monitoring. The European Commission is to set out a ten-year plan aimed at tackling... |
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| 3. I miss the EU already | September 9, 2010 |
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A Romanian Roma reflects on France's deportation of Romani. The sudden collapse of the European Union in the summer months of 2010 took many by surprise. Although the... |
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| 4. The fight for equality | June 17, 2010 |
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Michaël Privot on how conversion to Islam led him to lobbying the EU. “Anti-racism is not trendy any more,” says Michaël Privot, the new director of the... | |
| 5. Profiling is not up to this challenge | January 7, 2010 |
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The profiling of air travellers is unlikely to counter terrorism. To date, the policy responses to the foiled terrorist attack over Detroit have been marked more by bravado... |
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| 6. A guardian against discrimination stops fighting? | November 19, 2009 |
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Why are member states discriminating against the anti-discrimination directive? Eurobarometer recently published a survey that once again showed that there is a serious... | |
| 7. Doing a disservice to ethnic minorities | November 5, 2009 |
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Just because prejudice is not rational, does not make it any less real. By suggesting that “It is time to abolish the concept of ethnic minorities” (29 October- 4... | |
| 8. It all looks so much simpler from across the Channel | October 22, 2009 |
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Unoccupied Britain would do well to reflect on occupied Britain before talking about others' wartime history. Tweak history a bit. Imagine that in 1940 Hitler and Stalin... | |
| 9. An abridged women's agenda for the Parliament | July 2, 2009 |
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The new European Parliament can make women in Europe safer, wealthier and healthier. The European Parliament's new members will soon be in place, some of them without a... | |
| 10. Smart ways to use data | May 28, 2009 |
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Stopping ethnic profiling and helping prevent terrorism. One of the writers of this letter has recently been detained at two airports – Paris-Charles De Gaulle and... |
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| 11. Report calls for ban on ethnic profiling | May 26, 2009 |
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Ethnic or religious profiling has increased sharply since 2001 but has failed to lead to any conviction for terrorism. The EU should outlaw the police practice of stopping... | |
| 12. Council of Europe highlights xenophobia in Belgium | May 26, 2009 |
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Europe's top watchdog flags up persistence of far-right violence, police abuse and language-based discrimination.
The activities of neo-Nazi groups in Belgium are... | |
| 13. So what did the EU ever do for gender equality? | February 13, 2009 |
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Jennifer Rankin considers a study of gender politics in the EU's new member states. Equality between men and women was part of the European project from the beginning, with... |
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| 14. Older people count the costs of discrimination | October 23, 2008 |
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Europe's older generations feel discriminated against – from the workplace to more expensive insurance policies. A Commission proposal attempts to address some of these... |
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| 15. An agency in need of greater powers | July 31, 2008 |
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Agency ‘not competitive' to the Council of Europe; new boss plans biggest survey of racism victims. It took a long campaign by human rights activists, strongly supported... |
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| 16. EU executive outlines anti-discrimination plans | July 2, 2008 |
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Anti-discrimination legislation proposed by the European Commission more wide-ranging than expected.
A long-awaited proposal for a directive against discrimination... | |
| 17. Watering down the EU's anti-discrimination effort | June 26, 2008 |
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The European Commission will present its long awaited proposal for a ‘horizontal' directive against discrimination on Wednesday (2 July), but it is unlikely that those... | |
| 18. News in brief | June 20, 2008 |
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| 19. Estonia and Finland warned on gender equality | June 6, 2008 |
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European Commission is assessing the incorporation of equality guidelines into the law codes of another 20 EU states.
The European Commission has sent a first letter of... | |
| 20. European children feel knowledge of rights is sketchy | May 27, 2008 |
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New survey finds that violence and sexual exploitation are key concerns among girls, discrimination and drugs among boys.
Most teenagers in the EU say they are aware... | |
