Over 10 years ago a major and unprecedented evolution occurred in the European Union with the adoption in 2000 of two pieces of EU legislation in the field of anti-discrimination: the Racial Equality Directive (2000/43/EC) and the Employment Equality Directive (2000/78/EC). The transposition and...

This is a guide for European small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) managers wishing to improve the competitiveness and the social and economic performance of their business by building on the diversity of their workforce. The publication contains basic information for all SMEs to use,...

From 2004 to date, 13 national Diversity Charters have been established across Europe aiming at encouraging companies to implement and develop diversity policies. The charter is a short document voluntarily signed by companies which outlines the commitment of the undersigning organization to...

Over 10 years ago a major and unprecedented evolution occurred in the European Union with the adoption in 2000 of two pieces of EU legislation in the field of anti-discrimination: the Racial Equality Directive (2000/43/EC) and the Employment Equality Directive (2000/78/EC). The transposition and...

The objective of this report is to compare and contrast anti-discrimination law in the 28 EU Member States and EU candidate countries (namely the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey), as comprehensively described in the annually updated country reports written by...

Mit "Unterstützter Beschäftigung" ist im Jahr 2008 ein Instrument in das SGB IX aufgenommen worden, das die Eingliederung behinderter Menschen mit besonderem Unterstützungsbedarf in sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschäftigung fördert. Obwohl dieses Instrument, mit dem das Prinzip "Erst...

This paper describes how the corona pandemic has changed the life situations of specific groups of people along the life span: Children and adolescents in precarious life situations, adults with "intellectual disabilities" and persons in the "third age". Based on these situation descriptions,...

Die Studie untersucht den derzeitigen Umsetzungsstand der UN-BRK im Bereich schulische Inklusion in den deutschen Bundesländern. Sie liefert damit eine umfassende Strukturanalyse in diesem Bereich. Art. 24 der Konvention verpflichtet die Vertragsstaaten zur Gewährleistung eines inklusiven...