UN’s Human Rights Council: Rights to a Healthy Environment is a Human Right
The right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment now globally recognized as a human right In its session held on 8 October 2021 the Human Rights Council…
“Europe Floor Wage” – Fair Wages are Possible
Compared with the concept of the minimum wage as a means to prevent poverty, fair wages would enable the workers to cover not only the food and rent…
Joint statement in support of the Office of the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights
Global and European human rights networks and organizations issued a statement on May 14 2021 in support of the Office of the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights. The…
What does the pandemic have to do with human rights?
Coronavirus epidemic is a test of societies, of governments, of communities and of individuals as it can only be suppressed by our joint efforts, responsibility, solidarity and cooperation….
Time to adopt the Equal Treatment Directive
Ten years ago, on 2 July 2008, the European Commission proposed a new anti-discrimination directive known as the Equal Treatment Directive or Horizontal Directive. But ten years late,…
Poverty and discrimination: two sides of the same coin
Equinet – European Network of Equality Bodies and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission hosted the conference Poverty and discrimination: two sides of the same coin on…