Annual Reports 2018

Last year, the Institute The Institute received 258 complaints, answered 42 questions in Parliament and is currently handling 31 cases in Court. The Institute saw a 63% increase in reported cases of discrimination against transgender persons between 2017 and 2018. Read more…

Unia has seen a steady increase of complaints in the last 3 years. Although ethnicity remains the most prevalent ground growing in number of complaints every year, disability has seen an increase of 50% in the last 5 years with a steep increase of almost 20% between 2017 and 2018. Read more…

Although the number of complaints received have slightly dropped in the last year, many challenges remain. Complaints on discrimination on the grounds of race and ethnicity increased, thus being the most claimed ground of discrimination. Complaints concerning disability slightly decreased, becoming second in the list. Age discrimination is the next most discriminated ground. Read more…

In 2018, an increase in victim’s complaints can be observed, reflecting the deepening inequalities and regressing fundamental rights that alarmingly affects French society. Cases concerning persons with disability remain the most prominent (22,8%) and echo the difficulty in French society to efficiently tackle this ground of discrimination. Discrimination based on ethnic origin is regularly invoked (14,9%), while sex, family situation and pregnancy represent a fair share of cases handled by the French equality body. Read more…

FADA has published its first annual report, as a way to support their comprehensive report to the Bundestag which they submit to the members of parliament in every legislative period. The Annual Report gives a brief overview of recent events at FADA, looks at the latest developments in the field of equality (focusing on racism, gender identity and acces to the labour market) and the stories, facts and figures relating to the counselling they offer. Read more…

1,711 concerns were raised by the public to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in 2018. Disability discrimination remains the highest area of contact seeing almost a third of all equality related concerns. Read more…

In 2018, the CET received 126 new complaints, and continued 24 ongoing cases from the previous year. The statistics gathered on the complaints gives an understanding of the predominant equality challenges in Luxembourg. Disability is the most common ground of discrimination with 26% of complaints, followed by gender (16%) and ethnicity (14%). Read more…

2018 reaffirmed several positive trends from previous years, such as the increased participation of women in the labour market, cross-sectoral efforts to eliminate all forms of discrimination against LGBTI individuals, stronger legislation to eliminate violence on women and formal strategies for the integration of migrants. Challenges hindering the achievement of equality in practice remain, such as the persistently low percentage of women in decision-making positions and continued discrimination on the different grounds, including religion/belief and race/ethnic origin. Read more…

After its second fully operational year as an independent national equality body, the report looks back at the process of establishing the body in accordance with the Slovenian Protection Against Discrimination Act (PADA) and the activities undertaken to address discrimination in the country. Read more…

Throughout the year we explored a number of important issues with our members: how to tackle discrimination against young people, countering ethnic profiling, dealing with work-life balance and dismissal protection and combatting hate speech, based on racism, sexism, or any other grounds of discrimination. We looked at how to engage with the UNCRPD and Article 33(2), how equality bodies carry out research and data collection and how they can best contribute to facilitating freedom of movementas Article 4 bodies under the 2014 EU Directive.

We contributed to the European equality agenda through our discussions on investing in equality and on combatting poverty by considering socio-economic status as a ground of discrimination. On the occasion of the 10^th anniversary of the proposal of the Horizontal Directive, we shone a light on the important reasons to finally adopt and implement the Directive. Read more…