The Arab Spring: A Litmus Test for the EU’s Women’s Rights Policy in the Euro-Mediterranean Area? Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Paper 1/2013

The promotion of women’s rights is described as a priority within the external action of the European Union (EU). As a result of the Arab Spring uprisings which have been ongoing since 2011, democracy and human rights have been pushed to the forefront of European policy towards the Euro-Mediterranean region. The EU could capitalise on these transformations to help positively reshape gender relations or it could fail to adapt. Thus, the Arab Spring can be seen to serve as a litmus test for the EU’s women’s rights policy. This paper examines how and to what extent the EU diffuses women’s rights in this region, by using Ian Manners’ ‘Normative Power Europe’ as the conceptual framework. It argues that while the EU tries to behave as a normative force for women’s empowerment by way of ‘informational diffusion’, ‘transference’ ‘procedural diffusion’ and ‘overt diffusion’; its efforts could, and should, be strengthened. There are reservations over the EU’s credibility, choice of engagement and its commitment in the face of security and ideological concerns. Moreover, it seems that the EU focuses more intently on women’s political rights than on their social and economic freedoms.

A success story for the EU and seasonal workers’ rights without reinventing the wheel. EPC Policy Brief, 28 March 2014

Despite the economic crisis with resulting high unemployment, EU economies face vacancies across the skill spectrum. At the low end there is a structural need when it comes to seasonal work. The Seasonal Workers Directive was launched at the same time as the Inter-Corporate Transferees (ICTs) Directive in 2010 – as part of the Commission’s 2005 Policy Plan on Legal Migration – and initially appeared to be more troublesome, with the stigma of ‘migrants stealing local jobs’ haunting it. However, without the provisions for intra-EU mobility that have plagued the ICTs Directive, the Seasonal Workers Directive became less problematic despite the fact that seasonal workers are more numerous than intra-corporate transferees. This Policy Brief looks at how negotiating parties ensured a focus not only on the needs of the European labour market, but also saw an opportunity to bring added value to seasonal workers’ rights, through equal treatment to EU nationals. It assesses the final outcome of three and a half years of intra-EU negotiation, looking at the rights gained for seasonal migrants, the level of harmonization achieved, and the future of migration policy with the strategic guidelines for the area of freedom, security and justice in mind.

A Progressive Promoter of Women’s Rights? Comparing EU Policy towards the ACP and the EMP Countries. Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Paper #3.2015

The paper offers an analysis of the degree to which two different external policy frameworks of the European Union (EU) have institutionalised and operationalised the EU’s commitment to women’s rights and gender equality. It compares the EU’s relations with the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries with the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP), using Senegal and Morocco as case studies. Although the comparison shows some resemblances between the two cases, as a whole women’s rights seem more deeply embedded in the institutional framework of EU-ACP relations than that of Euro-Mediterranean relations, and this together with the EU’s approach towards implementation has enabled its women’s rights policy to be slightly more influential on the ground in Senegal than in Morocco. However, both EU-ACP and EMP frameworks have their limits, reflecting the more general problem of inconsistency between the EU’s declaratory objectives and its actual promotion of human rights.

Toward equal educational opportunity : affirmative admissions programs at law and medical schools.

Includes bibliographical references.

Equal opportunities for Spanish-speaking people : Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, first session ... /

"Serial no. 32."

A generation deprived : Los Angeles school desegregation : a report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

On cover: Equal education.

Equal educational opportunity for Puerto Rican children : hearings before the Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity of the United States Senate, Ninety-first Congress, second session, on equal educational opportunity, Washington, D.C., November 23, 24, and 25, 1970.

Reprint of the 1970 ed. published by the U.S. Govt. Print. Off., Washington, which was issued as pt. 8 of Equal educational opportunity.

Affirmative action and equal employment : a guidebook for employers /

Includes bibliographical references.

Equal employment opportunity : women and minority aerospace managers and professionals, 1979-86 : report to congressional requestors /

"B-228734"--p.1.

Health and Human Services : Hispanic representation and equal employment practices in Region VIII : report to the Honorable Timothy E. Wirth, U.S. Senate /

"November 1990."

Equal employment opportunity in Tacoma area local government : a report /

Mode of access: Internet.

A paper commitment : equal employment opportunity in the Kentucky Bureau of State Police.

July 1978.

Statehood for Hawaii : hearing before the Subcommittee on Territories and Insular Affairs of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, first session, on S. 49, a bill to enable the people of Hawaii to form a constitution and state government and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states and S. 51, a bill to enable the people of Hawaii to form a constitution and state government and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states.

Guy Cordon, chairman of subcommittee.

Guide for investigations and compliance reviews in equal employment opportunity.

Cover title.

The American dream--equal opportunity ; report on the Community Leaders' Conference /

Mode of access: Internet.