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Institute for Workplace Studies                 Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations          Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
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16 East 34th Street, 4th floor                  Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016                      Director, IWS News Bureau
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From the European Commission > Employment and Social Affairs

Fight against discrimination: strong demand for more EU action [26 November 2004]
http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/news/2004/nov/antidiscrimination_en.html

Brussels, 26 November 2004. A vast majority of respondents (88%) responding to the Commission's Green Paper consultation on 'Equality and non-discrimination in the European Union' said that the EU should step up its efforts to combat discrimination following enlargement. One of the Commission's first steps will be to issue a Communication on anti-discrimination before the end of 2005. AND MORE....

GREEN PAPER - Equality and non-discrimination in an enlarged European Union (June 2004)
http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/fundamental_rights/greenpaper_en.htm

Five years ago, huge impetus was given to the fight against discrimination in the European Union when new powers were granted to tackle discrimination on grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, age, disability and sexual orientation.

This Green Paper sets out the European Commission's analysis of the progress that has been made so far. It seeks views about how the EU can continue and reinforce its efforts to combat discrimination and to promote equal treatment. In so doing, it responds to calls from the European Parliament and others to organise a public consultation on the future development of policy in this area.  AND MORE....

Response statistics for Green Paper on anti-discrimination and equal treatment
Status : inactive
Date open : 01/05/2004
End date : 31/08/2004
There are 1443 responses
http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/fundamental_rights/pdf/stats.pdf

Full-text of the GREEN PAPER
http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/fundamental_rights/pdf/greenpapfin_en.pdf
[full-text, 40 pages]

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