Full Coverage: Europe

30.04.2007 At closer inspection, the legal protection of rights of workers in Croatia seems greatly satisfactory, even in comparison to European Union standards. Law on Labour prohibits all forms of discrimination of those working or seeking employment – from discrimination based on race and colour of skin, obligations in the family, age, sexual or even sexual orientation-based discrimination.

30.04.2007 As we write this, a group of citizens that have completed over 25 years of work and were left without any income whatsoever after their companies went bankrupt are striking in horrible conditions. These “bankruptcy” workers can’t meet the requirements to retire or receive social allowance from the Employment Bureau, demand from the Government to solve their problem by either finding them jobs, or by securing them a monthly allowance of, hopefully, 100 Euro until they meet the retirement criteria.

30.04.2007 Despite difficult postwar conditions and abnormal circumstances during most of the 1990s, Kosovo’s labor market is on its way to functioning normally. Stimulated by institutional flexibility and liberal wage determination framework, employment has rebounded to pre-war levels, but unemployment rate is still large.

30.04.2007 One of the biggest problems in the area of human rights ni Bosnia and Herzegovina is the non-observance of rights of workers, amply demonstrated by the statistical data collected by the associations for free legal assistance, which are used largely by those who fail to realize their labour and employment related rights.

30.04.2007 In Albania during ’90 years after the collapse of centralized socialist economy brought about the closing of thousands of jobs so the country was deeply immersed in labor-market crises as the main indicator of its period of transition.

30.04.2007 The biggest climate change talk-in, learn-in and plan-for-action of the year. London, 12-13 May.

30.04.2007 Ethnic groups are much more likely to be poor than white Britons, says a new report - with people of Bangladeshi origin the poorest of all.
From Joseph Rowntree Foundation

30.04.2007 European governments are dragging their heels on a key EU initiative designed to tackle illegal logging, according to a new assessment released today.

29.04.2007 The British government's Climate Change Bill - which proposes a 60 per cent in the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 - doesn't go nearly far enough, argues the chairman of Parliament's All-Party Group on Climate Change.

27.04.2007 The First Children Embassy in the World – Megjasi, under the global week for inclusion of children in education process, implements the “Join Us! Right to Education NOW” campaign, that started on April 23 and will be implemented in over 100 countries in the world.

27.04.2007 Britain's National Association of Goldsmiths has pledged its support for a campaign that is calling for an to "dirty gold".

26.04.2007 Question: What happened when Olaudah Equiano, one of the most famous slaves in history, met John Newton, British slave trader and writer of the hymn Amazing Grace? Answer: Nothing - because they didn’t meet. African Snow imagines the confrontation, and shows us what might have occurred.

26.04.2007 "Peace Caravan" was initiated in 2005 by the Regional Network “Objection for Peace”, as an activity that should provide an opportunity to all interested people to contribute to establishment of lasting peace in this war-torn region. So far, “Peace Caravan” activities have taken place in Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

26.04.2007 A group of women from six Balkan countries and Kosovo have asked for an urgent meeting with the UN Security Council, and repeated their demand that women must participate directly in talks on the future of Kosovo.

26.04.2007 The "Peace Caravan" was initiated in 2005 to provide an opportunity to all interested people to contribute to the establishment of lasting peace in the war-torn region of southeast Europe. Events will be held in at least six cities during the month of May.

25.04.2007 The MULTIMEDIA Performing Arts Centre from Skopje, together with the Museum – Stip, Stip Municipal Council, the Foundation for Local Development, “Sergej Mihajlov” Music School, and “Zaedno” (Together) NGO, will organize the “ART GENERATOR” Urban Arts Festival in Stip, April 26-29, 2007.

25.04.2007 If British politicians really want to reach voters via the Internet, argues Becky Hogge, they need to exploit the best features of the new communications environment.

24.04.2007 Despite progress in the Northern Ireland peace process, security forces are still stifling freedom of information, writes Anthony McIntyre.

23.04.2007 The MULTIMEDIA Centre of Performing Arts, under the auspices of its From Female Point of View project, organizes the first national debate on the topic “Development, Labour and Gender”. The debate will take place in the Municipal Council Hall in Stip, on April 24, 2007, starting at 12:00 hours.

23.04.2007 The way UK supermarkets do business with developing countries is locking women workers into appallingly low pay and dangerous conditions, a report claims today.