Legal developments
Gender violence
The Constitutional Court has established that children with sufficient maturity and who are in a stable situation of transsexuality can request their change of sex and name in the civil registry.
Parental leave
Decision on the legality of a decision of local transport authorities to refuse access to special tariffs for the underprivileged to foreigners who do not hold residence permits
Integrative education policy
Unia will not remain the Inter-federal Centre for Equal Opportunities in the years to come
School principal asks a student to remove her headscarf or go home, causing an uproar in the community
Gender Pay Gap
National Action Plan for preventing intimate partner violence
National Action Plan for preventing intimate partner violence
Whether damages are payable to individual victims of educational segregation to compensate for the disadvantages they suffered as a result of the segregation
Ombudsman for the elderly for all sectors of society
Network of CSOs working on discrimination published a comprehensive report on the work of the equality body since it was founded
Transitional provisions between old and new law left the country without an equality body in operation
Monitoring of discrimination cases concerning public and private sector on behalf of the competent Equality Body
Face covering clothing
Enforcement of the right to property and the applicability of the Article 8 proportionality assessment in case of illegal occupation of land by Roma
Is the fact that the law provides that there is no difference in the lump sum damages for direct and indirect discrimination, constitutional?
The transfer of the General Secretariat for Gender Equality from the Ministry of Interior to the Ministry of Labour undermines the implementation of substantive gender equality legislation and policies
Promotion of equal opportunities, of conciliation between private and working life - tackling gender discrimination and gender violence in the Civil Service
Sexual harassment, employer’s duties to report on equality matters, strengthening of the Ombud’s authority to give guidance in cases on discrimination
New provisions of the Penal Code on domestic violence
New provisions of the Penal Code on domestic violence
Policy of University Eindhoven to appoint more women in academic positions
Work-life balance, right to work, gender discrimination
ECRI criticises the new Ombudsman for insufficient activity in the field of promoting equality and protecting vulnerable groups
Discrimination of the patient on ground of disability
Difficulties concerning the enforcement of equality body decisions
Work-life balance, right to work, gender discrimination
Whether differentiation in social benefits based on long-term illness constitutes discrimination
Whether harassing municipal practices targeting the Roma population amount to a violation of the Roma victims’ human dignity
Whether blocking access to LBGTQI-themed websites for employees constitutes discrimination
The Slovenian equality body with increased staff and budget
Abolition of punishment of activities of discriminatory provision of goods and services
First three cases dealing with discrimination because of disability adjudicated according to the new 2018 Act on the Prohibition of Discrimination due to Disability
Extension of parental leave
Different premiums for men and women for the voluntary health insurance
Violence against women
Whether a trans woman should be provided with access to women’s changing room at her workplace
The Hungarian government launched a complex set of policies aimed at increasing fertility rates
The ruling of the Supreme Court of 21 of June 2019, appeal number 396/2019, states that sexual assault in which the victim did not expressly opposed to the offenders given the intimidating situation must be qualified as rape (and not as simple sexual abuse)
New Government Programme promises amendments of gender equality law
Ireland’s national equality body has requested local government bodies to conduct a review of compliance with equality law obligations in the field of accommodation for the Traveller community
Was a policy of restricting housing to one religious community a proportionate form of positive action?
Victimisation
Civil and criminal liability of a Mayor for refusal to register Roma children in elementary school
Perceived disability
Segregation of Roma children in education
Gender equality in the business world and the labour market is still not achieved, as shown by two independent reports published in 2019
Protection against retaliation for witness of discrimination based on sex
