Osservatorio delle Libertà ed Istituzioni Religiose
Discrimination against Muslim women and its causes Public hearing on the situation of Muslim women Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality – 17 April 2008 Religion is not the source of human rights abuses, and it is patriarchal culture, not the Koran, that leads to discrimination against Muslim women, concluded a Women’s Rights Committee […]
COMECE Spring Plenary Assembly 2008: The EU of the 21st century should incarnate the Common Good The Bishops Members of COMECE met from the 5th to the 7th of March 2008 in Brussels, for the Spring Plenary Assembly, the main topic being ‘Respecting human dignity and safeguarding the creation – incarnation of the Common good […]
On 19 February a delegation of European and Slovenian churches was received by the Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa. The meeting took place upon request of the Commission of Bishops’ Conferences in the European Community (COMECE) and the Church and Society Commission of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) as part of the series of […]
Sikis New Report by the European Network of Legal Experts in the non-discrimination field. A review of the transposition of the EC Racial Equality and the Employment Equality directives in the national law of 25 EU Member States. :: Mark Bell, Isabelle Chopin and Fiona Palmer, Developing Anti-Discrimination Law in Europe (december 2007) (pdf) In […]
Sikis La Commissione si adopera per colmare le lacune esistenti in materia di parità sul lavoro (Nota di stampa del 31 gennaio 2008, in www.europa.eu) In data odierna la Commissione ha inviato a 11 Stati membri pareri motivati sollecitandoli a dare piena attuazione alle norme UE che proibiscono la discriminazione sul lavoro basata su religione […]
SLOVENIA: OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE EUROPEAN YEAR OF INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE On 08 January, the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 was officially launched in Ljubljana, Slovenia, highlighting the start of the first Slovenian EU Presidency. The festive evening was opened by the speeches of Dr Danilo Tϋrk, the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Ján […]
Autumn Plenary Assembly of the Bishops of COMECE: The external action of the EU: current challenges and perspectives Considering the desperate situation of Iraqi refugees – in particular Christians who are described as “most vulnerable” by the UNHCR – the Bishops of COMECE call upon the EU and its Member States to agree as soon […]
Il Parlamento approva la Carta dei diritti fondamentali dell’Unione e dà mandato al suo Presidente di proclamarla solennemente, prima della firma del trattato di riforma, congiuntamente al Presidente del Consiglio europeo e al Presidente della Commissione. Tale cerimonia dovrebbe aver luogo il 12 dicembre, a Strasburgo. Adottando con 534 voti favorevoli, 85 contrari e 21 […]
Sikis Adoption of the Reform Treaty: Hope for the continuation of European construction COMECE’s Secretary General Mgr Treanor greets the announcement of an agreement on the new treaty for the European Union. The agreement, reached by the 27 Heads of States and Governments at the European Council of Lisbon last night, brings an end to […]
Sikis The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) issued a new Report “on Racism and Xenophobia in the Member States of the EU”, presented at the European Parliament on 27 August 2007. Unequal treatment continues in employment, housing and education, according to data collected by the FRA. Figures for racist crime in 2005 and […]
