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 Issue at stake: Parental leaves allowance, cut in contribution for working mothers, measures counteracting gender violence

Law 4/2024, of 15 January amended the text of Article 240 of the Portuguese Criminal Code to broaden up the scope of the offences related to discrimination and incitement to hatred, and violence

Law 3/2024, of 15 January, that creates the Commission for Equality and Against Racial Discrimination and amends Law no. 93/2017, of 23 August

Unobstructed, safe and equal treatment of all citizens in Public Transport without discrimination against persons with disabilities

Publication date: 26 February 2024. Topics

Survey on Living Conditions, Origins, and Trajectories of Resident Population in Portugal 2023

Mandatory additional admission points envisaged for persons with disabilities and multiply disadvantaged persons applying to higher education abolished along with reasonable accommodation duties for applicants with disabilities in the course of higher education admission exams

When does an employer have to raise defence against claim of discrimination for it to be considered in the court procedure

Publication date: 26 February 2024. Topics

School records and disability

Publication date: 26 February 2024. Topics

Issue at stake: The Committee of the Parties to the IC Recommendation on the implementation of the IC by Greece, following GREVIO’s first Baseline Evaluation Report.

Publication date: 26 February 2024. Topics

Issue at stake: open positions in equality body to be filled after a controversial process, one person announced resignation

Issue at stake: the 2023-2027 Action Plan on the implementation of Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security

Publication date: 19 February 2024. Topics

Issue at stake: new parental leave (called “birth” leave, congé de naissance)

Publication date: 12 February 2024. Topics

Issue at stake: gender equality and hate speech in the published 2022 Annual Report of Albanian Commissioner for Protection from Discrimination

Publication date: 1 February 2024. Topics

Issue at stake: gender equality in the new Crosscutting Strategy for Decentralization and Local Governance 2023-2030

Publication date: 1 February 2024. Topics

Issue at stake: carers leave

Publication date: 1 February 2024. Topics

Issue at stake: protection from redundancy for pregnant women and those returning from maternity leave

Publication date: 1 February 2024. Topics

The new legislation introduces changes whereby a person experiencing domestic violence can also obtain protection from the perpetrator of the violence outside the place of residence

Publication date: 1 February 2024. Topics

Issue at stake: introduction of penalisation female genital mutilation in the Istanbul Convention into the Polish legal system has led to an unequivocal ban on contraceptive sterilization of women

Publication date: 1 February 2024. Topics

Issue at stake: Directive 2019/1158/EU – transposition in the private sector

Issue at stake: counteracting gender-based and domestic violence

Publication date: 1 February 2024. Topics

Issue at stake: counteracting gender-based and domestic violence

Publication date: 1 February 2024. Topics

Issue at stake: the right to flexible working. 

Publication date: 16 January 2024. Topics

Issue at stake: New laws regarding sexual harassment. 

Publication date: 16 January 2024. Topics

Issue at stake: Proposed amendments to the Criminal Act which could introduce the special criminal offence of femicide. 

Issue at stake: equal treatment. Government ends Danish National Church’ exception from the Equal Treatment Act.

Making improper use of computer and telecommunication equipment to incite hatred and mock persons with disability.

Publication date: 14 December 2023. Topics

Modification of the three Federal acts fighting against discrimination.

Publication date: 14 December 2023. Topics

The imposition of an upper age limit for appointment of notaries as a possible violation of the principle of equal treatment.

Publication date: 14 December 2023. Topics

Group action to request that measures be taken to put an end to racial profiling in Police identity controls.

Legality of Ministerial instruction forbidding abayas and qamis in public school as constituting ostentatious religious signs.

National Bar Council regulation imposing a neutrality dress code to lawyers’ formal dress when acting before the courts or in official capacity.

Registration of legal sex change, recognition of transgender identity.

Publication date: 7 November 2023. Topics

For the first time since its establishment in 1985, the term ‘gender equality’ has slipped down the title of the General Secretariat competent for gender equality.

Publication date: 19 October 2023. Topics

Blanket exclusion of all managers in the public sector from the right to telework in breach of work-life balance and gender equality EU law.

Report of the Pay Structure Committee relating to equal pay. 

Publication date: 19 October 2023. Topics

A court decision triggered a legislative initiative to explicitly address the gender status of the beneficiaries of a pension scheme for women. 

Publication date: 19 October 2023. Topics

Right of persons with disability to represent themselves in judicial proceedings

Publication date: 27 September 2023. Topics

Pardon of penalties and amnesty for offences committed by young persons

Publication date: 27 September 2023. Topics

Danish Institute for Human Rights criticises the National Roma Strategy for not living up to EU standards

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