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 ...

The application of Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment a 2008-06-19 · European Commission Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. In 2000, the Council adopted Directive 2000/78/EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation. Directive 2000/78/EC had to be transposed into national law by 2003 in EU-15, by 2004 in EU-10 and by 2007 in Bulgaria and Romania. The Commission had been examining all national transposition measures to ensure ...

Homophobia and Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation in the EU Member States Part I: Legal Analysis 2008-06 · European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) The report identifies differences in treatment and protection by the law for LGBT people, and a lack of full and equal enjoyment of rights in areas of EU competence particularly with regard to same sex partnerships. It also highlights that homophobic hate speech and hate crime represent obstacles to the possibility for individuals to exercise their free movement and other rights in a non-discriminatory manner. The report finds that 18 out of 27 EU Member ...

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 ...