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To mark the launch of the advertising campaign, the Stop Discrimination homepage has been redesigned to make it clearer and easier to find information on discrimination and your rights – the most frequently visited pages on this site. If you’re an employer, you’ll also quickly find details and resources on how diversity could help your business.
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The ‘For Diversity. Against Discrimination.’ campaign has launched a series of six adverts in April 2012 to draw attention to rising discrimination at work.
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At the request of the European Commission, the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (FRA) is launching an online survey of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) that aims to uncover their experiences of hate crime and discrimination, as well as their level of awareness of their rights.
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The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination commemorates that day in 1960 when police opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration against the apartheid "pass laws" in Sharpeville, South Africa. The Day came into being in 1966 when the United Nations (UN) General Assembly called on the international community to redouble its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination. It aims to remind people around the world of their collective responsibility for promoting and protecting the ideal set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”.
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The European Commission is organising a special meeting of the European Platform for Roma inclusion on 22 March in Brussels to provide stakeholders with an opportunity to express their views on the ongoing work at national level to design national Roma integration strategies.
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Europeans are living longer and staying healthier than ever before. This presents a challenge as well as a great opportunity for society as action is needed to improve opportunities for active ageing and living independently, and in areas as diverse as employment, health care, social services, adult learning, volunteering, housing, IT services or transport.
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The Winter 2011 edition of the Stop Discrimination Newsletter is now online in English, French, German and Polish.
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The "For Diversity. Against Discrimination." campaign works to raise awareness of discrimination based on disability, as well as racial and ethnic origin, religion or belief, age and sexual orientation.
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The ‘For Diversity. Against Discrimination.’ campaign works to promote the benefits that a diverse workforce can bring to employers, especially small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) that make up the vast majority of European companies. The campaign has produced a guide for SME managers that provides information on how employees from diverse backgrounds can strengthen a business, as well as practical advice, for example, on how to recruit from a wider pool of talent.
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The ‘For Diversity. Against Discrimination.’ campaign works to raise awareness of discrimination based on different grounds including age, which can affect both young and older people.
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