Drawing on evidence gathered in its surveys and reports, FRA submits a set of opinions aimed at improving the protection against discrimination. These could be taken into account in the implementation and the eventual reform of the EU legal framework on the protection against discrimination. The...

Article 13 of the EC Treaty, introduced by the Amsterdam Treaty, aims to combat discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation. This new Article has opened new prospects for an anti-European and worldwide organisations representing...

This report intends to support and further stimulate non-discrimination mainstreaming at both Member State and European level by proposing practical mainstreaming instruments that could be utilised to promote greater consideration of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity concerns in the...

This report has been drafted as part of a study into measures to combat discrimination in the EU Member States, funded by the European Community Action Programme to combat discrimination.

This paper is about the issue of defining disability in European discrimination law context. It is based on the research and discussions which have been undertaken within the European Group of Disability Discrimination Experts. The paper reviews the definition of disability in disability...

The current study reviews and clarifies how the various provisions of the Framework Employment Directive, advance the anti-discrimination idea in the context of employment and disability. Morover, it surveys the main features of anti-discrimination law in the Member States as it relates to the...

The European Council adopted on 27 November 2000 a decision establishing, for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2006, a Community action programme to combat discrimination, aimed at promoting measures to combat any direct, indirect, single or multiple discrimination based on racial or...

This report has been drafted for the European Network of Legal Experts in the non-discrimination field (on the grounds of Race or Ethnic origin, Age, Disability, Religion or belief and Sexual Orientation),and has been drafted as part of a study into measures to combat discrimination in the EU...