Past Workshops

A total of five workshops have being organised with national key actors in order to exchange different approaches and methodologies and inform participants about the obligations deriving from the Directive and from Protocol 12.

Each workshop is attended by representatives from 5 countries and include persons from government departments, NGOs, the judiciary, and lawyers. On 15-18 November 2001 the first workshop was hosted by the Open Society Foundation Romania in Sinaia, Romania for participants from Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania and Slovakia

The second took place in Prague on on 25-28 April 2002. The workshop was hosted by the Czech Commission for Human Rights and welcomed participants from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Spain and the United Kingdom.

The third workshop took place on 28-30 November 2002 in Brussels with participants from Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Portugal.

The fourth workshop was held in March 2003 in Evia, Greece, which currently holds the Presidency of the European Union. The countries involved this time were Germany, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania and Slovenia.

The final workshop in the series took place in Istanbul, Turkey, on 6-8 May 2004. The countries represented were Austria, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Norway, Sweden and Turkey.

Downloadable files

Workshop Program 1 (84kb)
Workshop Program 2 (183kb)
Workshop Program 5 (151kb)
Workshop Program 4 (157kb)
Workshop 5 Genuine and Determining Occupational Requirements and Positive Action, (170kb)
Workshop 5 Proving Discrimination - burden of proof, statistics, situation testing (139kb)
Workshop 5 Bodies for the Promotion of Equal Treatment (370kb)
Workshop 5 Lessons from sex discrimination case law (305kb)
Workshop 5 Implementing Anti-discrimination Law in the National Courts (159kb)

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