Opinion Of The European Union Agency For Fundamental Rights On The Situation Of Equality In The European Union 10 Years On From Initial Implementation Of The Equality Directives

Author : European Union. Agency for Fundamental Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Discrimination
ISBN : 9292392859

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Opinion of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights on the Situation of Equality in the European Union 10 Years on from Initial Implementation of the Equality Directives by European Union. Agency for Fundamental Rights Pdf

The European Union (EU) adopted two prominent pieces of legislation in 2000 aimed at efficiently fighting discrimination. The Racial Equality Directive and the Employment Equality Directive together create a well-developed anti-discrimination framework. Their wide-ranging scope, precedence over and direct effect on national systems resulted in a robust legislative package that left no doubt of the EU's legal commitment to protect those living in its territory from discrimination. Despite this decisive and influential step and the resulting progress made in many EU Member States' legal systems, evidence gathered by FRA shows that discrimination remains part of the daily experience of too many Europeans. Looking into the reasons for the divide between the law on the books and the situation on the ground, FRA has identified various factors that prevent more effective implementation of legal provisions and other mechanisms designed to improve protection against discrimination. To address the shortcomings identified, the following five opinions could be taken into account. -- EU Bookshop.

Author : Emma Lantschner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192843371

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Reflexive Governance in EU Equality Law by Emma Lantschner Pdf

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed how far we as a European society still are from the proclaimed Union of Equality. The book explores how the promise of equal treatment can become a reality and compliance with the EU acquis relating to equality and non-discrimination can be improved. It studies enforcement and promotion aspects of the two watershed directives of 2000, the Racial Equality Directive 2000/43/EC and the Employment Equality Directive 2000/78/EC, through the lens of reflexive governance. This governance approach is proposed as having great potential in enhancing the likelihood of sustainability (or continuation) of reforms in the current candidate countries and EU Member States through its emphasis on reflexive learning processes and the cooperation between EU institutions, national authorities, and civil society actors. In order to deploy this potential, there is, however, a need for more consistent and transparent monitoring, both with regard to candidate countries as well as old and new Member States, and a reconsideration of the understanding of monitoring as such. It should be seen as helping to deconstruct own preference-formations and as a possibility to learn from successes and failures in a cooperative and recursive process. To work on these lacunae and improve learning and monitoring processes, this book identifies indicators, that are deduced from the comparative review of the implementation practice of the member states. This book is thus a contribution to the existing literature in the fields of Europeanization, governance, and the right to equality and non-discrimination.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Adult child abuse victims
ISBN : UCSD:31822038879961

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Violence Against Women by Anonim Pdf

"Violence against women undermines women's core fundamental rights such as dignity, access to justice and gender equality. For example, one in three women has experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15; one in five women has experienced stalking; every second woman has been confronted with one or more forms of sexual harassment. What emerges is a picture of extensive abuse that affects many women's lives but is systematically underreported to the authorities. The scale of violence against women is therefore not reflected by official data. This FRA survey is the first of its kind on violence against women across the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU). It is based on interviews with 42,000 women across the EU, who were asked about their experiences of physical, sexual and psychological violence, including incidents of intimate partner violence ('domestic violence'). The survey also included questions on stalking, sexual harassment, and the role played by new technologies in women's experiences of abuse. In addition, it asked about their experiences of violence in childhood. Based on the detailed findings, FRA suggests courses of action in different areas that are touched by violence against women and go beyond the narrow confines of criminal law, ranging from employment and health to the medium of new technologies."--Editor.

Author : Dagmar Rita Myslinska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781003853213

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Law, Migration, and the Construction of Whiteness by Dagmar Rita Myslinska Pdf

This book addresses the hidden dynamics of race within the European Union. Brexit supporters’ frequent targeting of European Union (EU) movers, especially those from Central and Eastern Europe, has been popularly assumed as at odds with the EU project’s foundations based on equality and inclusion. This book dispels that notion. By interrogating the history, wording, omissions, assumptions and applications of laws, policies and discourses pertinent to mobility and equality, the argument developed throughout the book is that the parameters of CEE nationals’ status within the EU have been closely circumscribed, in line with the entrenched historical positioning of the west as superior to the east. Engaging current legal, economic, political and moral issues--against the backdrop of Brexit and contestations over EU integration and globalisation--this work opens avenues of thought to better understand law’s role in producing and sustaining social stratifications. Europe is a postcolonial space, as this book demonstrates. By addressing fractures within the construct of whiteness that are based on ethnicity, class and migrant status, the book also provides a theoretically nuanced, and politically useful, understanding of contemporary European racisms. This book will appeal to scholars, students and others interested in migration, EU integration and EU citizenship, equality law, race and ethnicity, social policy, and postcolonialism.

Author : Delia Ferri,Andrea Broderick
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788976428

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Research Handbook on EU Disability Law by Delia Ferri,Andrea Broderick Pdf

This Research Handbook comes at an opportune time, and provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging exploration of relevant developments concerning disability rights at EU level. It also looks beyond the EU, focusing on how disability has been relevant in EU external relations. In addition, the Research Handbook considers the interface between EU disability law and Council of Europe law.

Author : European Union. European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:858816445

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EU LGBT Survay by European Union. European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights Pdf

Author : Rosemary Byrne,Han Entzinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429588655

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Human Rights Law and Evidence-Based Policy by Rosemary Byrne,Han Entzinger Pdf

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) was established to provide evidence-based policy advice to EU institutions and Member States. By blending social science research with traditional normative work, it aims to influence human rights policy processes through new ways of framing empirical realities. The contributors to this volume critically examine the experience of the Agency in its first decade, exploring FRA’s historical, political and legal foundations and its evolving record across major strands of EU fundamental rights. Central themes arising from these chapters include consideration of how the Agency manages the tension between a mandate to advise and the more traditional approach of human rights bodies to ‘monitor’, and how its research impacts the delicate equilibrium between these two contesting roles. FRA's experience as the first ‘embedded’ human rights agency is also highlighted, suggesting a role for alternative and less oppositional orientations for human rights research. While authors observe the benefits of the technocratic approach to human rights research that is a hallmark of FRA’s evidence-based policy advice, they also note its constraints. FRA’s policy work requires a continued awareness of political realities in Brussels, Member States, and civil society. Consequently, the complex process of determining the Agency’s research agenda reflects the strategic priorities of key actors. This is an important factor in the Agency’s role in the EU human rights landscape. This pioneering position of the Agency should invite reflection on new forms of institutionalized human rights research for the future.

Author : Paul Craig,Gráinne De Búrca
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1375 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198714927

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EU Law by Paul Craig,Gráinne De Búrca Pdf

This work provides a clear and insightful analysis of European law accompanied by carefully chosen extracts from a range of materials.

Author : Francesco Orbitello
Publisher : Youcanprint
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788827814468

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The prohibitions on worker discrimination according to the EU Treaties by Francesco Orbitello Pdf

This book aims to explain how anti-discrimination and equal opportunities law flows into a broader set of interventions and actions aimed at achieving equality. Fair treatment is a basic straightforward of the European Union. Discrimination by gender, age, disability, ethnic or racial origin, religion, beliefs or sexual orientation is illegal.

Author : European Commission. Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities. Unit G.4
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Age discrimination
ISBN : UVA:X030375209

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Tackling Multiple Discrimination by European Commission. Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities. Unit G.4 Pdf

Methodological approach to the study -- Literature review -- Exploring multiple discrimination from a legal perspective -- Exploring multiple discrimination -- Good practice -- Recommendations and suggestions.

Author : F. Von Prondzynski (Dr),Commission of the European Communities
Publisher : Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Affirmative action programs
ISBN : UCSD:31822007040769

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Implementation of the Equality Directives by F. Von Prondzynski (Dr),Commission of the European Communities Pdf

Author : Pascal Fontaine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9279715623

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Europe in 12 Lessons by Pascal Fontaine Pdf

What purpose does the EU serve? Why and how was it set up? How does it work? What has it already achieved for its citizens, and what new challenges does it face today? In a globalised world, can the EU compete successfully with other major economies while maintaining its social standards? How can immigration be managed? What will Europe’s role be on the world stage in the years ahead? Where will the EU’s boundaries be drawn? And what future is there for the euro? These are just some of the questions explored by EU expert Pascal Fontaine in this 2017 edition of his popular booklet Europe in 12 lessons. Pascal Fontaine is a former assistant to Jean Monnet and former professor at the Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris.

Author : Margarida Lima Rego,Birgit Kuschke
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030827045

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Insurance and Human Rights by Margarida Lima Rego,Birgit Kuschke Pdf

This volume examines the impact of and interplay between human rights and insurance. National, supranational and international legal instruments regulating the taking-up and pursuit of the business of insurance and reinsurance, (re)insurance distribution and the insurance contract often refer to or impact on human or fundamental rights. Courts are often faced with the sometimes seemingly impossible task of reconciling insurance core principles, practices and mind-sets with the principles and values stemming from human rights protection. In some cases, such as that of discrimination in insurance, this discussion has been going on for decades. Some deal with hot topics which have more recently emerged in light of developments stemming from technologic innovations (‘InsurTech’). The first part of the book focuses on insurance and the right to equal treatment. Discrimination on the basis of factors such as gender or age is tackled, from the perspectives of the European Union, Canada and South Africa. The second part of the book highlights the very relevant role played by insurance in the upholding of the right to health, covering the United States of America, Africa and Brazil. The third part of the book explores InsurTech's manifold challenges upon the right to privacy, focusing on European Union. The fourth part tackles the threat posed by insurance on the right to life in general, but with a particular focus on the United Kingdom. Written by legal scholars and practitioners, the book offers international, comparative and regional or national perspectives, aiming to contribute to a more thorough and systematic understanding of the interactions between these two very different fields of law, providing the industry as well as the scientific community with insights from both sides of this seemingly difficult to transpose divide.

Author : Council of Europe,European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287198495

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Handbook on European data protection law by Council of Europe,European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights Pdf

The rapid development of information technology has exacerbated the need for robust personal data protection, the right to which is safeguarded by both European Union (EU) and Council of Europe (CoE) instruments. Safeguarding this important right entails new and significant challenges as technological advances expand the frontiers of areas such as surveillance, communication interception and data storage. This handbook is designed to familiarise legal practitioners not specialised in data protection with this emerging area of the law. It provides an overview of the EU’s and the CoE’s applicable legal frameworks. It also explains key case law, summarising major rulings of both the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights. In addition, it presents hypothetical scenarios that serve as practical illustrations of the diverse issues encountered in this ever-evolving field.

Author : Cristina Izquierdo-Sans,Carmen Martínez-Capdevila,Magdalena Nogueira-Guastavino
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030727987

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Fundamental Rights Challenges by Cristina Izquierdo-Sans,Carmen Martínez-Capdevila,Magdalena Nogueira-Guastavino Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive review of fundamental rights issues that are currently in the spotlight. The first part explores why the question of whether or not fundamental rights have horizontal effect is a topic of endless debate. The second part focuses on human rights and the rule of law. It begins by arguing that the hitherto valid model of the rule of law is now outdated, and then goes on to outline the importance of the judicial dimension in countering threats to the independence of the judiciary. Lastly, the third part addresses a classic issue in the field of human rights: states’ margin of appreciation, highlighting two aspects: (i) the elements used by the ECJ to determine the scope of the margin of appreciation, which varies depending on the subject matter, the nature of the right in question, as well as the severity and the purpose of the interference; and (ii) the margin of appreciation enjoyed by national courts when interpreting the law. Exploring current issues concerning a topic of eternal interest, the book will appeal to scholars and practitioners alike. Written by formidable intellectual talents, committed to the study of fundamental rights, it rigorously analyses the most recent judgments of both the ECJ and the ECHR.