Legal developments
New laws to prevent and dismantle ghettos and parallel societies in Denmark
Evidence of racial profiling in identity controls by police
The ruling of the Constitutional Court in the field of migration lays the foundation for the recognition of the rights of same-sex couples and explicitly adds the grounds of sexual orientation as an integral part of the Constitutional Equality clause
Higher roof for payments during maternity/paternity leave
Sexual harassment
New Danish Act requires individuals to shake hands with a Danish official to obtain citizenship
Discrimination in the field of Employment and Pensions
The independent mechanism for the implementation of the CRPD delivers two conflicting decisions on complaints for disability discrimination in education
Rejection of applicant wearing a headscarf
Government proposal to reform the article of the Spanish Constitution, regarding the rights of persons with disabilities
Project of a general reform of antidiscrimination legislation in Spain and the creation of an independent “Authority for equal treatment and non-discrimination”
Judgment by the Council of State on discrimination of a pregnant woman who applied for a research grant
Equal pay certification
The ban on dismissal on grounds of marriage does not apply to male workers.
The judgment of the National Court of 19 November 2018 annulled the statutes of a sex workers’ union arguing that prostitution cannot be considered a job and that, therefore, whoever exercises it cannot rely on the freedom of association to create a union
Positive Discrimination
Denial of reasonable accommodation in nursery school for a pupil with Down's Syndrome
Discriminatory Denial of Fair Trial
Law No. 60/2018 of 21 August 2018 for the promotion of equal pay of men and women
Code of Practice for the prevention of sexual harassment and harassment in employment & Code of Practice for combating of sexual harassment and harassment in employment in public sector
Improving the coordination between the right to leave for the care of disabled people and the right to compulsory maternity leave
Police charged the harasser EUR 96
Proposals for legal amendments
Draft law amending the Gender Equality Act and related legal acts
Legality of the decision to remove alternative meals in school on the ground of secularity of the public service
Improve regulation and repression of parking of Travellers
Politicians declare intention to close down NCCD
Risk of shutting down of NGOs providing services to vulnerable groups due to restrictive anti-money laundering provisions
Discrimination based on the ethos of a religious organisation
Discrimination in the field of access to goods and services
Court finds that Courts in the Republic of Cyprus have no jurisdiction to try disputes between members of the Turkish Community
Law of 10 August 2018 opens the gender marker change process by a declaration of intimate and stable conviction
Gender quotas on company boards
Publication of manuals for politicians, judges, and local and regional gender equality commissions in the field of gender mainstreaming and promotion of gender equality
The new law on higher education provides that female and male scientists are subjected to general provisions on the differentiation of retirement age, meaning that women shall retire at the age of 60, while men retire at the age of 65.
Preparation of the new National Gender Equality Policy
Different levels of benefit for maternity and adoption leave
Extension of paternity leave
Law 6/2018, of 3 July 2018 (Final Disposition 38) has extended the paternity leave from four weeks to five weeks and has allowed the possibility to take the paternity leave in two parts.
New bills to prevent and dismantle ghettos and parallel societies in Denmark
Royal Decree 950/2018, of 27 July 2018, has applied the judgment of the CJEU of 9 November 2017, C-98/15 (Espadas Recio Case) and has, accordingly, modified the social security legislation so part-time workers have the right to the unemployment benefit taking into consideration the days that they have contributed to the social security system, and not only the days that they have effectively worked.
Change of legal gender
Fixed-term contracts for the young unemployed
Indirect discrimination / Obligations of public prosecutor offices when assessing discriminatory impact of municipal binding regulations
On 30 August, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination published Concluding Observations on the combined report by Latvia. The observations pay special attention to the collection of statistics, NHRI, anti-discrimination legislation and its enforcement, hate crimes and hate speech, access to justice, non-citizens and the situation of Roma
2017 Annual Report of the Ombudsperson for Gender Equality discussed and approved in the Croatian Parliament
Ratification of the Istanbul Convention
Unclear impact of the changes on equal treatment of men and women in social security
Liechtenstein’s Administrative Court applied to the Constitutional Court for annulment of a legal provision in the granting of a residence permit to the de facto civil partner on the grounds that this provision violates the principle of constitutional equality and is not compatible with Article 8 ECHR in conjunction with the prohibition of discrimination under Article 14 ECHR
Adoption of anti-discrimination legislation
