EU Disability Discrimination
Website of EU Disability Discrimination
The EU Disability Discrimination project seeks to build a framework for the implementation of the disability aspects of the EU Directive for Equal Treatment in Employment and Occupation (EU Directive 2000/78/EC) through the development and delivery of training programs for NGOs in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania and Romania. This project has brought together a group of legal trainers from the United Kingdom and other European countries, to work with disability NGOs in candidate countries on legal strategies for defending and representing the rights of disabled people in the employment sector in those countries, using EU Directive 2000/78/EC as the training framework. The project thereby acknowledges the importance of the acquis communitaire requirement that candidate countries must transpose EU Directives into their domestic laws as a condition of full EU membership.
The project is supported by the European Community Action Program to combat discrimination (2001 – 2006). This program was established to support the effective implementation of new EU anti-discrimination legislation, and it targets all stakeholders who can help shape the development of appropriate and effective anti-discrimination legislation and policies, across the EU-25, EFTA and EU candidate countries.
The project is led and managed from the Centre for Legal Research at Middlesex University Business School in London. The partners are The Lamont Centre in Cluj, The National University of Ireland Galway and the Central European University in Budapest.
Contact person: Lilla Jakobs – jakobsl@ceu.hu
