YES to new EU anti-discrimination law
After years of calling for new EU law to expand legal protection against different forms of discrimination, the European Commission finally proposed a new anti-discrimination directive on 2 July 2008.
This proposed anti-discrimination directive would prohibit discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, sexual orientation and religion or belief in the areas of social protection, including social security and health care, education and access to and supply of goods and services which are commercially available to the public, including housing.
In order to become EU law, this proposed directive needs to be adopted unanimously by all EU Member States.
We therefore need your support to campaign national governments to make sure they will all support the directive.
For more information about the campaign for a new European anti-discrimination directive, contact evelyne@ilga-europe.org
The full text of the proposed directive can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/fundamental_rights/pdf/pubst/poldoc/propdir426_08_en.pdf
What is the campaign about?
On 2 July 2008 the European Commission proposed a single anti-discrimination directive which ensures that there is guaranteed equal protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation, age, disability, religion and belief in relation to access to social protection, goods and services, health care and education at the European level.
This campaign is to call on ALL Member States to support this proposal and ensure that the Commission’s proposal becomes EU law.
What can you do to contribute to this campaign?
The proposed directive adopted by the European Commission on 2 July 2008 was sent to the European Council which needs to approve it if the directive is to become EU legislation. This means that the proposed text is now up for negotiations by national governments.
Background - Process leading to Commission's proposal
The road to the adoption of a proposed directive by the European Commission on 2 July 2008 started a couple of years ago.
