Is childhood a 'disability'? Exploring the exclusion of children from age discrimination provisions in the Equality Act 2010

The Equality Act 2010 was enacted with the aim of simplifying existing equality legislation and included extending age discrimination protection beyond the workplace to cover the provision of goods, facilities and services. Under-18s, however, were omitted from such provisions, despite lobbying from a number of different organisations and parliamentarians. This article considers the significance of this exclusion. It both challenges the legitimacy of the decision to exclude children, and considers the difficulties that arise from including under-18s within age discrimination provisions, namely those relating to children’s autonomy, capacity and right to equal treatment. In particular, it asks whether the question of children’s capacity to make decisions, the main ground on which children are denied all the human rights enjoyed by adults, should be revisited in light of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, under which a finding of incapacity on the basis of disability constitutes discrimination. It goes on to explore other areas of convergence between childhood and disability studies, and particularly the benefits, and shortcomings, of a ‘social model’ approach to childhood.

The rebirth of an old language: issues of gender equality in Kazakhsstan

The existing language situation in Kazakhstan, while peaceful, is not without some tension. We propose to analyze here some questions we consider relevant in the frame of cultural globalization and gender equality, such as: free from Russian imperialism, could Kazakhstan become an easy prey of Turkey’s “imperialist dream”? Could these traditionally Muslim people be soon facing the end of religious tolerance and gender equality, becoming this new old language an easy instrument for the infiltration in the country of fundamentalism (it has already crossed the boarders of Uzbekistan), leading to a gradual deterioration of its rich multicultural relations? The present structure of the language is still very fragile: there are three main dialects and many academics defend the re-introduction of the Latin alphabet, thus enlarging the possibility of cultural “contamination” by making the transmission of fundamentalist ideas still easier through neighbour countries like Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan (their languages belong to the same sub-group of Common Turkic), where the Latin alphabet is already in use, and where the ground for such ideas shown itself very fruitful.

Reconceptualising public spaces of (IN)equality: sensing and creating layers of visibility

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em Geografia e Planeamento Territorial - Especialidade: Geografia Humana

Manual de Operaciones del Proyecto Bitácoras de Pesca

Examina detalladamente las actividades de las embarcaciones de la flota industrial en cada viaje de pesca, con la finalidad de determinar adecuados índices de captura y esfuerzo en pesquería pelágica, especialmente del recurso anchoveta. Adicionalmente, se brinda información sobre la interacción de la pesquería pelágica con los cetáceos, a fin de estimar la mortalidad de mamíferos marinos en la pesca industrial.

Informe del consultor para el Proyecto FAO/PER/76/022 cubriendo el trabajo de abril /mayo 1979

El proyecto se inició en mayo de 1978 y se terminó en diciembre de 1981. Sus objetivos principales con establecer las bases científicas para la administración racional de las pesquerías peruanas de aguas continentales y para su óptima utilización.

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Proyecto tutor gestión internacional evaluación cualitativa de clientes del TGI

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Proyecto de virtualización vía gubernativa

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Taller ¿Cómo vender los productos y servicios de tu empresa? : Ejercicio guía de elaboración del proyecto de ventas

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Prueba competencias para vender tu proyecto empresarial - Programa CREA

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Prepárese para presentar su proyecto : Resultados del estudio GEM 2007

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Programa de orientación vocacional y proyecto de vida "Da la Talla"

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Un decálogo de buenas prácticas: proyecto tarjeta ciudadana Bogotá Capital

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