May 28, 2021
The Swedish Equality Ombudsman has secured a major win in an important case concerning discrimination in healthcare services. The ruling followed a six day trial in […]
May 19, 2021
The Equinet Freedom of Movement Cluster was created in 2018 to build the capacity of equality bodies to exercise their new mandate and assist them in realizing their full potential. Based on a needs assessment, recently carried out with […]
May 17, 2021
On November 2020, the European Commission adopted its first-ever LGBTIQ Strategy. This ambitious policy document is a major landmark for the protection of LGBTIQ people all over […]
April 27, 2021
The Ombudsperson Institution of Kosovo* has published its annual report for the year 2020 as the fulfillment of the constitutional liability of submitting an Annual Report […]
April 20, 2021
The past few months saw a major breakthrough in the recognition of and standards for equality bodies, with the EU’s anti-racism action plan raising the possibility of proposing EU-level legislation to […]
April 7, 2021
During the last year, the spread of COVID-19 has put all of Europe to a stress test. The measures taken by governments to tackle the crisis […]
March 5, 2021
On #WorldHearingDay, 3 March 2021, the European Commission published the EU Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030. This is the second strategy of […]
February 24, 2021
The corona crisis that is gripping our country has fuelled mutual distrust among citizens. “We notice that there is a strong tendency to look for culprits […]
February 5, 2021
On 1 – 2 March, Equinet organized an online workshop in cooperation with the European Youth Forum (YFJ), building on the outcomes of our seminar in […]