Norway
Non-discrimination law | Lene Løvdal | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Gender equality law | Marte Bauge | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Legal developments
Sexual harassment, employer’s duties to report on equality matters, strengthening of the Ombud’s authority to give guidance in cases on discrimination
Attitudes in the Norwegian population regarding discrimination issues, hate speech and the instruments of equality policy
Revised anti-discrimination legislation and new structure and competencies for equality bodies
Addressing and combatting discrimination against persons with disabilities
Conference on Equality and the future employment market
Freedom of religion in employment
Employment
Effectiveness of sanctions/ lack of compensation when age-discrimination has been established in a previous Supreme Court judgment
Government White paper on the rights of people with cognitive disabilities - NOU 2016:17 På lik linje – åtte løft for å realisere grunnleggende rettigheter for personer med utviklingshemming (“On equal footing – 8 boosts to realize basic rights for people with cognitive disabilities”) sent on public hearing
Government proposal to transfer the individual complaint mechanism from the Equality Ombud to the Equality Tribunal, and to give the Equality Tribunal power to award non-monetary damage in cases concerning working life
Addressing and combatting hate speech
First court case penalising refusal of services because of religion (hijab)
Revised action plan on LGBT-rights
Political aim to split the various functions of the national equality body into separate bodies
Is the State liable for lack of implementation of the European Convention on Social Rights (ECSR - the "Social Charter")?
First court case claiming compensation because of ethnic discrimination
New proposal for the introduction of one comprehensive anti-discriminatory framework
Report assesses how Scandinavian countries treat migrants from Romania (Roma), and their consequences
Political aim to split the various functions of the national equality body into separate bodies
Age limits lower than 70 years set by employer will be invalid
Promotion of acceptance of a minority group’s culture and traditional way of life
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