Managing diversity in the workplace brings many benefits but is not without efforts. Acknowledgment of other forms of discrimination are being added to long-recognized patterns such as those based on sex, race and religion. There is increasing awareness of unfair treatment of both young and older persons, people with disabilities, and LGBTI, sexual and life style choices. In this workshop...
Numerous research shows that EU Structural Funds investments offer huge potential for gender equality, for innovative gender equality initiatives, for true gender mainstreaming. The EU funded projects often have a broader impact on the societies, thus it is essential that the gender dimension within them is well developed. For this to happen, the civil servants behind the programming process and...
The Global Interfaith and Secular Alliance: Working for Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (GISA) is a group of faith-based and secular organizations working to counter religious extremist forces that seek to curtail global progress on reproductive and sexual rights.
The conference Gender Equality Pays Off is a launching event of the project Towards Equalising Power Relations between Women and Men, funded under the Norwegian Financial Mechanism Programme 2009-2014 for Slovenia. Objective of the project is to increase understanding of (un)equal power relations between women and men in order to identify adequate responses to gender imbalances and inequalities that persist...
MEPs Mikael Gustafsson, Chairman of Women's Right Committee (SV), Willy Meyer ES, Ines Zuber (PT) and Marie Christine Vergiat (FR), Kindly Invite you to a press conference New abortion law in Spain: Women's rights under fire in Europe! Wednesday 15/01/14, 14:00, EP press room Strasbourg With the participation of : Ascensión de las Heras, MP Izquierda Unida and spokesperson for...
On 4 December 2000, the UN General Assembly, taking into account the large and increasing number of migrants in the world, proclaimed 18 December as International Migrants Day. On 18 December 1990, the General Assembly had adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. UN Member States and intergovernmental...
Gender history, as well as history of knowledge and science, has been part of the established repertoire of the wide array of historical and cultural research studies in recent years. Yet primarily national perspectives and the focus on either gender or knowledge/science remains predominant. At its annual meeting, the Leibniz Graduate School for Cultures of Knowledge in Central European Transnational...
UNFPA and CRR mark the anniversary of the World Conference on Human Rights in 1993 and the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994.
EIGE invites you to submit a bid following the indications and procedures laid down in Invitation. The subject of the Contract is: Identification of gaps in data collection on topics as requested Collection and mapping of information and data on specified areas, including legislation, policies, actors, practices, trends, problems Collection of data, information, and in-depth views from competent authorities (governmental...
Jobs take their toll: understanding the impact of ageing, gender and occupational hazards on workers " Employers and most European governments tell us we will all have to work for longer. But how can workers in backbreaking jobs do that? As it is, many never manage to work out a full career due to physical or mental burnout. When asked...
'Jobs take their toll: Understanding the impact of ageing, gender and occupational hazards on workers' The debate on increasing the retirement age is meaningful only if it includes working conditions, particularly unequal exposure to hazardous substances and the gender impact on the quality of working life. Researchers, public officials, trade unionists and other social stakeholders will be exploring these critical...
