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The Employment Equality Directive introduced in 2000 requires all Member States to protect against discrimination on grounds of religion and belief in employment, occupation and vocational training. This report provides an overview of the provisions on religion and belief and examines the approach taken to implementation by Member States. The report also identifies some of the problematic legal issues which are likely to arise, and considers what should be the proper scope of protection against discrimination on grounds of religion and belief.

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These background research reports were prepared to serve as a basis for the EUMAP monitoring project Muslims in the EU: Cities Reports. This new monitoring project will result in the publication of a new series of reports in late 2008.

Although they do not contain original research, these background reports are made public because the wealth of information they contain can be useful to any person doing research on the situation of Muslims in these countries.

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“The Rules of the Game. Terrorism, Community and Human Rights” is a new report by Democratic Audit, a research organisation attached to the Human Rights Centre, at the University of Essex, for the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust. It is co-authored by Tufyal Choudhury, author of the EUMAP report Muslims in the UK: Policies for Engaged Citizens.

This report is largely focused on the response to what is now known as ‘home-grown’ terrorism…

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Since the Iranian revolution of 1978-79, the issue of Islam and its supposed challenge to the West has become a matter of enduring international preoccupation, which politicians within western European states, as well as a number of Islamic leaders, have chosen to highlight.

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The “European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia” published the study “Muslims in the European Union, Discrimination and Islamophobia” in the end of the year 2006. The first part tries to put into context the data and information on manifestations of Islamophobia.