PROGRESS - EU-programmet for beskæftigelse og social solidaritet 2007-2013

Sikkerheden for, at Fællesskabet for sin del kan støtte medlemsstaternes engagement i at skabe flere og bedre arbejdspladser og i at tilbyde lige muligheder for alle

Europa har brug for, at alle dets borgere spiller en aktiv rolle i samfundet. Forskelligartetheden af Europas folkeslag og regioner samt af EU-medlemsstaterne udgør en stor del af dets rigdom. Siden Unionen blev skabt, har den sammenknyttet sociale værdier med de økonomiske for at sikre en ligelig adgang til beskæftigelse og ligebehandling i livet. Alle medlemsstater deler disse værdier, idet regeringerne aktivt handler for at skabe arbejdspladser, mindske fattigdom og social udstødelse, sørge for social beskyttelse og fremme lige muligheder.

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Integrering af handicappede

Europas politik for lige muligheder

Som samfundsborgere har mennesker med  handicap lige rettigheder og er berettigede til  værdighed, ligebehandling, en uafhængig  tilværelse og fuld deltagelse i samfundet. EU’s  aktive indsats drejer sig om at  sætte handicappede i stand til at nyde godt af disse rettigheder. Følgelig er EU’s langsigtede mål for handicappede baseret på lige muligheder og på at udruste handicappede til at virkeliggøre deres potentiale og tage del i samfundet.

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EURopean Employment Services- Retsgrundlag

En samling tekster, der udgør retsgrundlaget for Eures

Lige siden lanceringen i 1993 har Eures spillet en betydningsfuld rolle som et
redskab til forbedring af mobiliteten på det europæiske arbejdsmarked.

Eures (European Employment Services) er et netværkssamarbejde mellem
arbejdsformidlingerne i medlemsstaterne, deres partnere og Kommissionen, som har til formål at udveksle oplysninger om jobtilbud og -ansøgninger, jobansøgernes CV, status over og tendenser på arbejdsmarkedet samt om leve- og arbejdsvilkår.

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Ligestilling i praksis - Hvilken rolle spiller positiv særbehandling?

2007 er det Europæiske År for Lige Muligheder for Alle. I løbet af dette år sætter EU særlig fokus på at arbejde i retning af et samfund uden forskelsbehandling, hvor alle har reelle valgmuligheder uanset køn, seksuel orientering, etnisk baggrund, religion, alder eller handicap.
Den Europæiske Union er nået langt med at skabe lovgivning, der giver enkeltpersoner ret til ikke at blive udsat for forskelsbehandling. Erfaringen har dog vist, at individuelle klager og retstvister ikke er nok til at sikre fuld ligestilling i praksis.

The social situation in the European Union 2005-2006

The Balance between Generations in an Ageing Europe

The Social Situation Report — published annually since 2000 — aims at informing the public debate on social policy by providing key data and prospective analysis. It is divided in two parts, a first part devoted to a special topic which is explored in depth and a second part consisting of statistical portraits covering the full range of social policy issues and a data appendix.

The Commission has launched a major debate through its Green Paper of March 2005 on “Confronting demographic change and a new solidarity between the generations”. The Green Paper is being followed up by a Communication on this topic.

We hope that this report will contribute to greater awareness of this issue and in particular a better understanding of its causes. The demographic challenge consists of accelerated ageing of our populations with its consequences for our social welfare systems. But the fact that Europeans can expect to live longer than ever before — and longer than people in almost every other region of the world — is a major achievement.

Local integration policies for migrants in Europe

Catalysts for Change? Equality bodies according to Directive 2000/43/EC

In the Preamble to the Equality Directive, the EU legislator considered that "[p]rotection against discrimination based on racial or ethnic origin would itself be strenghened by the existence of a body or bodies in each Member State, with competence to analyse the problems involved, to study possible solutions and to provide concrete assistance to victims." [Recital 24.] In this light the EU required all Member States to establish "bodies" to assist victims of racial and ethnic discrimination, to conduct surveys about the forms and prevalence of discrimination and to issue reports and recommendations. This report is the result of a study into the extent to which EU Member States had implemented this provision by the end of 2005.

Measuring Discrimination - Data Collection and EU Equality Law

Protection from unequal treatment was significantly strenghened throughout the EU by virtue of the adoption and national implementation of the two EU directives on equal treatment, namely the Racial Equality Directive and the Employment Equality Directive. A significant property if the to directives is that they do not just focus on individual prejudice and its consequence, but on institutional and society patterns and practises. This makes it important to have access to staistical data and to be in a position to utilise such data in a way that is relevant for these purposes.

Religion and Belief Discrimination in Employment - the EU law

The Employment Equality Directive introduced in 2000 requires all Member States to protect againts discrimination on grounds of religion and belief in employment, occupation and vocational training. This report provides an overview of the provisions on religion and belief and examines the approach taken to implementation by Member States.

Equal Rights in Practice

Spring 2007

CONTENTS: EU PROGRAMME AND POLICY DEVELOPMENTS, Taking action: a retrospective of the  Community Action Programme, Looking forward to seven years of PROGRESS, CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP, SPECIAL FOCUS: THE EUROPEAN YEAR OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES, National Implementing Bodies: the Finnish approach Working for the European Year: a business perspective NGOs and the European Yea, A view from the Committee of the Regions

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European Anti-Discrimination Law Review V

July 2007

In this issue:

Articles on systemic racial discrimination before the ECtHR, the shift in the burden of proof, MEP's reflection on 2007 EU Year of Equal Opportunities, ECJ and echr Case Law Updates, National Legal Developments, European Policy Update

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European handbook on equality data

Why and how to build to a national knowledge base on equality and discrimination on the grounds of racial and ethnic origin, religion and belief, disability, age and sexual orientation.

Eurobarometer 2007 - Discrimination in the European Union

The report presents the findings from a survey about discrimination and inequality in Europe that was carried out by TNS Opinion & Social on behalf of the European Commission DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities in the twenty-five Member States of the European Union and in the two acceding countries between 7 June and 12 July 2006.

The findings from this survey provide a good insight into the perceptions, attitudes, knowledge and awareness of discrimination and inequality in the European Union in 2006. In the report the six legally prohibited forms of discrimination in the EU are examined: discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnic origin, religion or beliefs, age, disability and sexual orientation.

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