The Equality Authority Annual Report 2007 2008-07-24 · Ireland Equality Authority The Equality Authority has a mandate to promote equality of opportunity and to combat discrimination. This report, which overviews the cases filed on grounds of violating equality, asserts that during 2007 the Equality Authority responded to 10,993 queries under five different pieces of legislation. It is reported that the emergence of the age ground as the highest area of casefiles under the Employment Equality Acts underpined the urgency in tackling the ageism. Another area that ...

Eurobarometer Survey 296 on Discrimination in the European Union - Perceptions, Experiences and Attitudes 2008-07 · European Commission In anticipation of 2007, the Year of Equal Opportunities for All, the European Commission DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities commissioned a survey about discrimination and inequality in Europe, conducted in the summer of 2006. This report represents a follow-up to this survey, tracking how perceptions and opinion with regard to discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age and sexual orientation have changed in the intervening year. Several ...

Report of Activities in Ireland under the European Year of Equal Opportunities for All 2007 2008-05 · Ireland Equality Authority This report details the wide ranging activities that took place during the European Year of Equal Opportunities for All 2007 in Ireland. The report asserts that the European Year in Ireland witnessed a broad involvement of organizations from a diversity of sectors. The Equality Authority points out to the broad mobilisation of organizations in the public sector, the private sector, the trade union sector, the local authority sector, the community and voluntary sector and the ...

Deinstitutionalisation and Community Living – Outcomes and Costs Country Reports 2008-01-29 · European Commission This is the third volume of the final report from the European Union Project "Deinstitutionalisation and community living – outcomes and costs: report of a European Study". This project, led by the University of Kent's Tizard Centre in cooperation with other institutions, aimed to bring together the available information on the number of disabled people living in residential institutions in 28 European countries, and to identify successful strategies for replacing institutions with community-based services. This ...

Deinstitutionalisation and Community Living – Outcomes and Costs 2008-01-29 · European Commission This study, financed by the European Commission and carried out by the University of Kent (Tizard Centre) and the London School of Economics, confirms that that institutional care is often of unacceptably poor quality. Indeed, sometimes the conditions in institutional care may represent serious breaches of internationally accepted human rights standards. It recommends a wider use of quality, community-based services, which offer better quality of life to people with disabilities, without necessarily costing more.