30.03.2009 - Irish Times
Equality Tribunal not entitled to hear case involving Garda age limit

30.03.2009 - Sweden - The Local
In a closely watched affirmative action case, a Swedish court ruled on Monday that men should not have been offered spots in a veterinary school programme ahead of women with equivalent qualifications.
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The men received additional weight in the selection process because men were seen as an “underrepresented gender” in the veterinary school programme.

28.03.2008 - UK - Times
300-year-old argument rumbles on
Ending discrimination against women and Roman Catholics in the Royal succession should be simple, but it originates in bitter 300 year old arguments about the nature of the British state.
Guardian, 27.03.2009
Times 27.03.2008: Disestablishment Bill aimed at ending anti-Catholic bias is blocked

26.03.2009 - Serbia
Anti-discrimination bill adopted
Parliament has adopted the anti-discrimination law, and is due to vote on amendments to the bill this afternoon.
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Washington Times

24.03.2009 - EU - more
The Council of Europe's human rights body last week called on governments across Europe to fight racism in sport ahead of last Saturday's international day for the elimination of racial discrimination (21 March).

19.03.2009 - Serbia - B 92
Debate on the controversial anti-discrimination law is continuing in parliament today.

19.03.2009 - UK - Telegraph
Head teacher who suffered stress from racism accusations wins £400,000 damages
A headteacher whose health and career were ruined by false accusations of racism and religious discrimination at a primary school dominated by Muslims has won £400,000 in damages.

Erica Connor was forced into early retirement through stress after governors at New Monument School in Woking turned her into a scapegoat by claiming she was Islamophobic.

19.03.2009 - Greece - Le Courrier des Balkans
Le prêtre orthodoxe Nikodim Carknjas, l’un des plus ardents défenseurs des droits de la minorité macédonienne du nord de la Grèce, dont l’existence est toujours niée par Athènes, a récemment été condamné à six mois de prison. S’agit-il d’une nouvelle preuve du harcèlement des autorités grecques ?

18.03.2009 - Ireland - Irish Times
Insurance company Eagle Star has lost a High Court bid to stop the Equality Tribunal investigating complaints of discrimination by a woman after her income continuance policy was loaded by 100 per cent, allegedly due to the insurer’s view she was clinincally obese.

Bernadette Treanor (49) claims Eagle Star insinuated to others in 2002 her policy was loaded because she was overweight and due to “other incorrect reasons”, including an alleged imputed heart condition.

17.03.2009 - EU - EU Observer
A bill banning discrimination against people on the basis of age, disability, sexual orientation, belief or religion in the areas of education, social security, health care and goods and services including housing has been approved by the European Parliament's civil liberties committee.

13.03.2009 - NL - YNetNews
A Dutch judge has ordered four teenagers to visit the Anne Frank House museum after finding them guilty of discrimination for insulting Jews at a rally.


The boys, aged 14 to 17, must turn in a report to the Hague Police Judge about their visit the canal house in Amsterdam where Anne Frank and her family hid from Nazi occupiers during World War II.

16.03.2009 - UK - Daily Mail
A top accountant was called 'Bin' by her work colleagues after Osama Bin Laden, an employment tribunal heard.

Vijyante Bashir, who is known as Bindi by her friends, was given the nickname on a whiteboard outside her office after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York.

06.03.2009 - UK - Guardian
A Berkshire tribunal this week heard from two rather unusual plaintiffs. Judges Jeremy Varcoe and Stuart Southgate are more familiar with ruling on arguments made by others than making a case of their own, but after being shunted out when they reached 70 they launched a discrimination case of their own. Their case seems peculiar, and yet they are merely two of 25,000 workers aged 65-plus who are consigned to the scrap heap annually on grounds of age alone.

04.03.2009 - Austria - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
OSCE participating States need to do more to address intolerance and discrimination against Christians, the first OSCE meeting focusing specifically on the topic concluded today.

"What came out clearly from this meeting is that intolerance and discrimination against Christians is manifested in various forms across the OSCE area," said Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), which organized the meeting.

16.03.2009 - UK - Daily Mail
New Shoesmith row as Baby P boss makes £1m sex bias claim... while report Ed Balls refused to make public is leaked

The council chief sacked over her handling of the Baby P child abuse case is claiming she was the victim of sex discrimination, it emerged today.

Sharon Shoesmith, 55, stands to win more than £1million if successful in her claim she was dismissed from Haringey Council because she is a woman.

15.03.2009 - Cyprus - Cyprus Mail
KISA, the Action for Equality, Support, Anti-racism group and the left-wing trade union PEO are joining hands to honour migrant women in Cyprus and the socio-economic contribution they make to the island, in an event called ‘Working Women in Cyprus in the Fight Against Discrimination and Racism’ this Sunday.

13.03.2009 - UK - Telegraph
Daily Mail
A female teacher who claims she flew over 12,000 miles for a 13-minute job interview is suing the Ministry of Defence for £150,000 for sex discrimination.

12.03.2009 - Sweden - The Local
Radio Sweden

Foreign-born graduates of Swedish universities have less chance of finding a job that equates to their qualifications than their Sweden-born counterparts. Those that do find work are often over qualified and have to work harder to find it.

11.03.2009 - Serbia - Beta News Agency
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg has said that despite progress in implementing human rights standards in Serbia, many obstacles still remain, and called for the urgent passage of the Anti-discrimination Bill.

In a report on the state of human rights in Serbia presented on March 11, Hammarberg said that Serbia has enhanced its legal and institutional framework for the protection of human rights, but added that its enforcement is still weak.

10.03.2009 - UK - Dash
White police officer subjected black PCSOs to a 'campaign of racial taunts'

A white police officer did ape impressions and used stereotypical West Indian accents and street slang to mock two black Community Support Officers, it was alleged today.

09.03.2009 - UK - Daily Mail
A Muslim police officer claims he was forced out of his job by colleagues who made fun of his beard and called him a 'f***ing Paki'.

PC Javid Iqbal, 38, said white officers openly discussed in front of him how they were ' better' than their ethnic-minority colleagues.

09.03.2009 - Serbia - Blic

The anti-discrimination law was withdrawn from parliamentary procedure at the last minute only to show the bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) that Bishop Irinej Bulovic enjoys the largest confidence of the State leadership, in the first place Serbia President Boris Tadic.

05.03.2009 - UK - BBC

A head of department at a Northern Ireland grammar school has won a sex discrimination case against the school.
Mrs McMullan claimed that she was engaged in the same or broadly similar work to three other heads of department in the school and that she was paid less than them on the grounds of her sex.

The Tribunal concluded that her "work as Head of the Food Technology Department is of the same or of a broadly similar nature to that of the three male heads of department".

06.03.2009 - UK - Yorkshire Post
A BARMAID yesterday won a sexual harrassment claim after a tribunal heard her boss had repeatedly pestered her at work after a £3,500 breast operation.

05.03.2009 - Ireland - Irish Times
Eagle Star has asked the High Court to prevent the Equality Tribunal dealing with complaints of discrimination and victimisation by a senior civil servant over the 100 per cent loading of her income continuance policy.

Bernadette Treanor, herself an equality officer, has claimed the insurer had insinuated to others in 2002 that her policy had been loaded because she was overweight and due to “other incorrect reasons”.

18.03.2009: Eagle Star loses bid to halt discrimination inquiry

05.03.2009 - Ireland - BreakingNews

The Royal School Dungannon has been found guilty of sex discrimination against one of its senior women teachers, it was announced today.

A woman head of department took the leading grammar school to an industrial tribunal because it paid her less than other male heads of department, and she claimed it was because she was a woman.

05.03.2009 - UN - World News
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem (Navi) Pillay (file)U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay says discrimination against women, indigenous people, minorities and other vulnerable people is on the rise. In her annual address to the U.N. Human Rights Council, Pillay urges nations to make it a priority to combat racism and all forms of discrimination.

05.03.2009 - UK - Telegraph
European judges have backed Britain's compulsory retirement age of 65.

The verdict in Luxembourg amounts to a defeat for Age Concern's legal battle to banish enforced retirement at 65, but the final decision still rests with the UK High Court.

05.03.2009 - UK - Times

Both the Government and companies across Britain can breathe a temporary sigh of relief with this morning's ruling that employees have no automatic right to work beyond the age of 65.

The ruling by the European Court of Justice came in a landmark challenge to the UK's national retirement age of 65, which gives employers the right to insist that people stop working when they reach that age, even if they want to carry on.
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The judges did say that the Government will have to justify why forced retirement was a legitimate aim and that its justification must be based on social or labour market needs, not employers' interests.

04.03.2009 - Ireland - RTE News
Belfast Telegraph
A life assurance company is trying to prevent the Equality Authority dealing with a complaint by a policyholder who is claiming discrimination due to her weight.

04.03.2009 - UK - Daily Mail
Muslim policeman suing Scotland Yard 'sacked after boasting he beat up vagrant' says white officers framed him

04.03.2009 - Poland - National Radio Company of Ukraine
About 250 delegates from the European football associations, clubs, leagues, NGOs and politicians are participating in the UEFA 'Unite Against Racism' conference in Warsaw. The main objective of the conference includes raising awareness of the problems of racism, intolerance and discrimination in football.

25.02.2009 - Lithuania - Baltic Times
About one-fifth of Lithuania’s ethnic minorities suffer from workplace discrimination, according to a survey released Feb. 23 by Lithuania’s Department of Ethnic Minorities and Lithuanians Living Abroad. The survey showed that 23 percent of Russians, 19 percent of Poles and 29 percent of members of other ethnic groups in Lithuania have encountered discrimination while on the job.