27.05.2009 - EU - EurActiv
Citing the ongoing recession, EU employers' group BusinessEurope has called on the European Union to withdraw a directive aimed at fighting discrimination, causing outcry among social NGOs.

26.05.2009 - Austria - ORF
Die Menschenrechtsorganisation Amnesty International (AI) kritisiert in ihrem jüngsten Rassismusbericht rassistische Diskriminierungen im Polizei- und Justizsystem.

26.05.2009 - Belgium - European Voice
Europe's top watchdog flags up persistence of far-right violence, police abuse and language-based discrimination.

The activities of neo-Nazi groups in Belgium are contributing to a climate of xenophobia, leading to a “persistence of incidents of racist violence”, the Council of Europe, Europe's top human-rights body, concludes in a report published today.

25.05.009 - UK - BBC
A former Tory party high-flyer facing claims of sexual discrimination allegedly told a colleague that "all women should be sterilised", an employment tribunal heard yesterday.

25.05.2009 - CH - NZZ
Der Ständerat will bei Einbürgerungen nicht auch eine Namensänderung der Neubürger ermöglichen. Ein Vorstoss wollte auf diese Weise Diskriminierungen auf Grund eines ausländisch klingenden Namens zu verhindern.

22.05.2009 - UK - BBC
A Muslim chef who accused the Metropolitan Police of religious discrimination when told he must handle pork has lost his tribunal case.

22.05.2009 - EU - ISN
While EU enlargement enshrined minority rights into law and brought the plight of the Roma to the forefront, they continue to face discrimination, Shana Goldberg comments for ISN Security Watch.

20.05.2009 - UK - BBC
A homeless charity did not break anti-discrimination laws when it refused to employ two former republican prisoners, law lords in London have ruled.

19.05.2009 -Cyprus - Cyprus Mail
THE MOVEMENT of Refugee Mothers will be taking their fight to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) seeking redress for discrimination against them by the Republic of Cyprus.

“We are not begging for anything. We are not second-class citizens…we want equal treatment for our children,” Markella Isaiah, head of the movement, told newsmen yesterday.

18.05.2009 - Switzerland - Irish Times
The court held unanimously that there had been a violation of Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination), taken in conjunction with Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life), of the European Convention on Human Rights as regards the obligation for the applicant to pay a tax to be exempted from military service on medical grounds, despite having been willing to perform his service.

Under Article 41 (just satisfaction) of the Convention, the court awarded the applicant €3,650 for costs and expenses. (The judgment is available only in French.)

17.05.2009 - Cyprus - Cyprus Mail
Exclusion of female staff deemed indirect discrimination

THE exclusion of 14 cleaning ladies from a special training course at the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) has been deemed as indirect gender discrimination by the Ombudswoman.

14.05.2009 - UK - Telegraph
A Muslim doctor claims discrimination over Friday prayers
A Muslim doctor who was dismissed from her job claims she was discriminated against because she wanted to attend a mosque for prayers every Friday, a tribunal has heard.

13.05.2009 - France - Earth Times
More than one of four French workers in the private sector says that he or she has been the victim of discrimination at the workplace, according to a survey published Wednesday in the daily La Tribune. In the survey, which was carried out in March by the government's anti-racism authority Halde and the International Labour Organization, 28 per cent of responding private-sector employees said they had been discriminated against in getting a promotion, a pay rise or some other professional benefit.

That is up from 25 per cent in the same poll last year. The figure for public-sector employees, who were polled for the first time, was 22 per cent.

13.05.2009 - UK - Whitehall Pages
New anti-discrimination treaty for disabled people on track for June
A major UN treaty that will enshrine the human rights of disabled people will soon be ratified by the UK, Jonathan Shaw, Minister for Disabled People, announced today.

12.05.2009 - UK - Economic Times
A draft bill designed to promote social equality must also try and erase caste-based discrimination that is rampant among South Asians in Britain, an Indian-born MP says.

11.05.2009 - UK - Telegraph
Muslim catering manager claims discrimination in row over handling pork
Muslim catering manager Hasanali Khoja refused to cook sausages and bacon because it was against his religion, a tribunal has heard

11.05.2009 - EU - 7th Space
Today the Commission adopted a proposal for a Directive on aviation security charges in Europe. The proposal follows a recent report on the financing of aviation security. The aims are to ensure transparency, non-discrimination and consultation of airlines when fixing the level of charges, as well as the cost-relatedness of security charges.

10.05.2009 - Serbia - B 92
An Assembly of the Islamic Community in Serbia led by chief mufti Muamer Zukorlić has asked the state to "stop the discrimination of this community".

07.05.2009 - Ireland - BBC
There may have been no-one as Irish as Barack Obama in the run up to the US elections, but a survey has indicated people with non-Irish names are being discriminated against in the Irish job market.

07.05.2009 - UK - Daily Mail
I'll put women in charge of banks: Harriet Harman's plans to use equality laws to challenge macho City culture
Harriet Harman wants to use controversial new equality laws to pack the boards of nationalised banks with women.

03.05.2009 - UK - Observer
MoD under fire for all-male toy soldiers promotional campaign
The Ministry of Defence is embroiled in a discrimination row after backing a range of "HM Armed Forces" model soldiers that ignores women and whose promotional campaign snubs black and Asian troops.

02.05.2009 - Ireland - Irish Times
FOURTEEN WOMEN employed as civilian clerical officers in Garda stations have brought a test High Court action alleging gender discrimination because they are being paid less than gardaí doing the same work.

02.05.2009 - UK - Wales online
Biggest group are white, but discrimination affects significant number
The overwhelming ethnic group in Wales remains classified as “white British” (95.2%). A further 1.4% of people are neither British nor Irish but white, and 0.7% are Indian. The next largest group trace their ethnic origin to Pakistan (0.5%).
Around one in 10 people said they had experienced discrimination, harassment or victimisation in the last five years. this was true for 15.8% of 16 to 29-year-olds but only 4.6% of those aged 70 and over. 62.6% agreed strongly or tended to agree that people with limiting disabilities face barriers or problems when seeking work.