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The European Union has been active in the field of women in science for 10 years now. Since the beginning, we have … concentrated on collecting information on the situation of women in European science, and on funding measures that encourage and … retain women in science and technology careers. We have had good results in these areas, but a lot has still to be done. . …
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This background paper has been drafted to coincide with the hearing of the European Parliament's Committee on Women …'s Rights and Gender Equality (November 21st 2007, Brussels) on Women and Violence at work in the European Union. The European …
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The FRA delivered an opinion on 31 May on the proposed EU law on the property consequences of registered international partnerships, following a request from European Parliament on 25 April 2012. The proposed regulation (COM(2011) 127 final) does not offer civil partners the same choice as...
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The Human Rights Act 1998 incorporates into the UK law most of the rights in the European Convention on Human Rights and its Protocols , and authorizes UK courts to enforce these “Convention rights.” None of the existing legislation expressly prohibits sexual orientation discrimintation in...
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This study aims to provide an analysis of the situation of women living on EU islands focusing on the situation of … women in fifteen island regions belonging to six member States (Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal and Finland) and on … the situation of women living on islands is more difficult than that of women living on the mainland or than that of men …
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The purpose of this report is to set out in brief form the law across the EU Member States, Bulgaria and Romania relating to discrimination on grounds of sex, sexual orientation, disability, religion and belief and age (the u0093relevant groundsu0094), to the extent that such discrimination...
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Sexual orientation as a concept is so far not recognised by Greek Law, which implicitly but systematically recognises, accepts, protects and institutionalises human sexuality that is confined within the limits of the traditional married heterosexual couple. Other forms of sexuality are either:...
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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.The present report was completed on March 1st, 2007, prior to the adoption of four legislative bills proposed...
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