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• Checks and Balances: Dividing the Directorate General for Justice, Freedom and Security in two – an Interior and a Justice branch

  29 April 2008, by Lieber Hasso
  The areas of justice and the interior (home affairs) are becoming ever more important in the European Commission. In most of the EU’s member states, the ministries of justice and the interior are separate. This is not just a question of tradition; it is rather the notion of checks and balances that speaks in favour of this separation.

• The Benefits of Positive Action

  29 April 2008, by International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)
  The paper was prepared on behalf of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. It identifies strategies of positive action in employment. The paper includes case studies with examples for application of positive action strategies in the retail sector, in manufacturing and in the police, as well as third-party positive action programmes. It concludes that now positive action is widespread and it has a positive effect not only on minorities concerned but also on everyone’s working conditions.

• Human Rights and the Future of the European Union

  28 April 2008, by Alegre Susie
  Human Rights and the Future of the European Union argues that EU institutions must be governed by a clear and coherent legally binding and enforceable human rights framework. Without such a framework, the EU risks becoming a black hole for fundamental rights rather than a champion of the principles of human rights, democracy and the rule of law on which it was founded.

• After Guantanamo : The case against preventive detention

  28 April 2008, by Roth Kenneth
  The U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay has become a stain on the United States’ reputation. Shutting it down will cause new problems. Rather than hold terrorism suspects in preventive detention, the United States should turn them over to its criminal justice system.

• Our Voices Heard : Report from the Romani Women’s Rights Conference

  23 avril 2008, par Swedish Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality
  This report is based on the speeches and discussions held at the Our Voices Heard – Amare Glasura Ashunde – a Romani Women’s Rights Conference that was organized by the Swedish Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality, the Council of Europe and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in December 2007 in Sweden. The themes addressed in the report include combating social exclusion, multiple discrimination of Romani women, Romani woman’s rights, combating trafficking, equal access to public health care and respecting reproductive rights.

• German constitutional challenge on Data Retention

  22 April 2008, by Lodge Juliet
  The complaint challenging the German data retention law in front of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has become the biggest constitutional case in German history with the submission of more than 34000 signatures backing up the action. The Working Group on Data Retention has also prepared an amicus curiae brief that it wants to submit to the European Court of Justice in the case Ireland vs. the Data Retention Directive and that can be signed by other NGOs.

• Points based system for migrants introduced in UK

  22 April 2008, by UK Prime Minister
  New rules for highly skilled foreign workers are designed to attract the most talented workers to the UK ensuring the country remains a global leader in the fields of finance, business, and technological innovation.

• Le CNE : retour sur une tentative de flexicurité

  14 avril 2008, par Centre d’études pour l’emploi
  Le contrat « nouvelles embauches » (CNE), mis en place en 2005, engageait la politique de l’emploi française dans une voie radicalement nouvelle. La mesure visait à réduire les réticences des employeurs à recruter dans les petites entreprises et avait l’ambition d’introduire un nouvel équilibre entre flexibilité et sécurité.

• Flexicurité, vers un nouveau compromis salarial ?

  14 avril 2008, par Centre d’analyse stratégique
  « Flexicurité » : né aux Pays-Bas au début des années 1990, le vocable a fait florès dans le débat européen sur l’emploi, jusqu’à devenir le maître mot des axes de réforme que la Commission européenne s’apprête à soumettre en décembre au prochain Conseil des chefs d’État et de gouvernement sous la forme de « principes communs de flexicurité ». Bien qu’ils ne fassent pas l’unanimité parmi les experts, patronat et syndicats européens viennent d’en reprendre à leur compte les principes dans un rapport conjoint sur les enjeux des marchés du travail en Europe.

• Gender inequalities in the risks of poverty and social exclusion for disadvantaged groups in thirty European countries

  7 April 2008, by Expert Group on Gender
  This report is based on national reports conducted in 30 European countries. It discusses gender inequalities in the risks of poverty and social exclusion in the case of disadvantaged groups. Specifically it focuses on issues such as the intersection of gender and age in risks of social exclusion, gender differences in rates of long-term unemployment and inactivity, rural poverty and the exclusion of disabled people, the risks of social exclusion and poverty faced by lone parents, the intersection of gender and ethnicity in social exclusion in the case of Roma.

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