The 2009 Equality Bill will, if enacted, make age based discrimination in the provision of health care and social care illegal for the first time in the United Kingdom. In a speech in 2008, the then health secretary, Alan Johnson, said, "Old age is the new middle age. Health and social care services need to adapt to the changing needs of today’s older people . . . to promote health in old age and help older people to maintain independence and quality of life."
Artificial intelligence (AI) and face recognition technology is being used for the first time in job interviews in the UK to identify the best candidates.
Par lettre en date du 19 octobre 2012, la ministre déléguée chargée des personnes âgées et de l'autonomie a saisi la CNCDH de la question des droits fondamentaux des personnes âgées aux plans national, européen et international.
(Assemblée plénière du 27 juin 2013)
A new campaign by disability rights activists to limit the right to die launches at Westminster on Thursday. The campaign - called Not Dead Yet UK Resistance - will be asking MPs to sign a charter in support of its aims. It says that disabled and terminally ill people should enjoy the same legal protection as everyone else. Those in favour of assisted suicide argue that opposing assisted suicide will condemn terminally-ill people to suffer needlessly. The Not Dead Yet UK's charter includes a commitment to oppose any changes to existing laws which state that assisting a patient to commit suicide is illegal.
More than 60,000 Americans were sterilised, many against their will, as part of a eugenics movement that finished in 1979, aimed at keeping the poor and mentally ill from having children. Now, decades on, one state is considering compensation.
Country Reports on the impact of the Racial Equality Directive: a survey of trade unions and employers - FRA - European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Wer die richtigen Studierenden anlocken will, sollte viel Hirnschmalz in den Namen des Studiengangs investieren, meint unsere Kolumnistin Kathrin Passig. Zu weiche Bezeichnungen führen Ungeeignete womöglich aufs Glatteis, zu harte schrecken vielleicht unnötig ab.
Oxford-based visual data management start-up, Zegami, has just launched a new tool for employers that will enable them to predict which employees are most likely to resign from their jobs.
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