Rights and equality
Women in Power
Friday 08 March 2019 |
Milena Hassenkamp Marcel Pauly
| Spiegel Online
Sweden does it without a law, France does it with one. The proportion of women in European parliaments and cabinets is determined by a number of different factors. A comparison.
The gender gap at EU elections
Tuesday 19 March 2019 |
Nikolaj Nielsen | EUobserver
Women across Europe don't tend to vote as much in European elections, compared with men. That fact poses questions on the growing gender gap in both politics and representation in the European Parliament.
Europe still digitally divided
Friday 29 September 2017 |
VoxEurop Europeans are more and more connected to internet, but there still are huge gaps between regions and countries
Citizens' rights: where EU and UK differ
in depth
Thursday 31 August 2017 |
Eszter Zalan | EUobserver
The rights of EU citizens living in the UK and those of the UK nationals living in EU countries is a key issue of the Brexit negotiations
Sweatshops on wheels
Tuesday 16 October 2018 |
OBC Transeuropa To observe the working conditions of truck drivers in Europe makes it possible to notice some crucial limits of the current state of European integration.
Parenting in Europe: who’s staying at home with the kids?
in depth
Thursday 08 November 2018 |
Laura Filios | OBC Transeuropa
Too many fathers delegating childcare to their partner; mothers staying too long outside the workforce; an uneven range of rights and guarantees: how and why parental leave is changing in Europe.
Croatia, where the streets have no (women's) names
Tuesday 11 December 2018 |
Ana Kuzmanić Ivana Perić
| H-Alter
The visualisations of urban public space are an important part of the process of creating collective memory and imagining (a different) future. In the toponymy of Croatian cities there is almost no trace of women. In 55 out of the 64 cities included in our analysis, the percentage of streets named after women is lower than 5 percent.
How widespread is anti-Roma prejudice?
Thursday 02 August 2018 |
Marzia Bona | OBC Transeuropa
The controversial eviction of a camping near Rome has once again brought attention to the Roma presence in Italy, which remains small in proportion to many European countries but is nevertheless the target of intense discrimination.
Human Rights Data and Dataviz
Sunday 29 April 2018 |
OBC Transeuropa Based in New Zealand, the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) has launched its first set of data tracking the human rights performance of countries around the world.
Nationalists’ hostility over religious minorities on the rise in Europe
Saturday 23 June 2018 |
Gian-Paolo Accardo | VoxEurop
According to a recent study by Pew Research Center, “2016 saw an uptick in nationalist activities around the globe”, and especially in Europe.
