France

The main French trade unions have challenged the admissibility of the candidacy to the professional elections of the National Corsican Trade Union because it promotes the ‘corsicanisation’ of hiring in Corsica 

The Conformity to the prohibition of discrimination based on origin of the constitution of police controls based on orders of the public prosecutor to control illegal immigrants 

Various provisions relating to the promotion of equality and improvement of the overall legal regime of protection against discrimination

Liability of the State for practices of racial profiling

Various reforms of the justice system including the unification of the legal protection against discrimination on all grounds covered by French law and the creation of a class action in matters of discrimination

Legality of Municipal bylaws forbidding Islamic swimwear on the beach

Introduction of the possibility to limit expression of religious freedom by way of the employer’s in-house regulation

Creation of a new ground of prohibited discrimination based on social precariousness

Statutory discrimination on the ground of nationality, i.e. indirect discrimination on the ground of origin, throughout plaintiffs’ career

Whether District school authorities can exclude mothers wearing an exterior religious sign such as an Islamic Veil from school activities

Air transport carriers obligation to provide access to air transport to disabled persons with reduced mobility and the scope of opposable safety requirements

Liability of the State for practices of racial profiling

Extend the protection against discrimination to anti-poor exclusion

Enforce the many decision of the Conseil d’Etat and the UN Human rights Committee declaring the legal regime applicable to Traveller

Creation of a class action specific to anti-discrimination legal actions

Scope of the obligation of neutrality and applicability towards mothers on school field trips