Traduction de «égalité devant l'éducation » (Français → Anglais) :

– (FR) Since 2000, the European Union has continually promoted equality, and this increasingly in the broadest possible sense of the word: equality between men and women, between nationals and foreigners, between the sick and the healthy, between Catholics, Muslims, Buddhists and other religions, equality of access to education, to health, equality for one’s sexual orientation, and so on. In short, the list is evidently not exhaustive, and the European directives currently being drafted concern equal access to social services and housing.

The charter guarantees freedom of religion, expression, assembly, association, the right to vote, the right of mobility, the right to equality before the law, the right to fair treatment in the legal system, language rights and education rights.

The Constitution establishes important rights, including the ones that were covered by the court challenges program, the rights of official language minority groups to education and government services in the language of their choice or their primary language, as well as the right of everyone in Canada to equality before and under the law.

– concerning the situation of Roma minority, further efforts are needed to improve their living conditions, desegregate Roma settlements and promote equality in employment through strict implementation of non-discrimination policies in order to improve access to the labour market; specific cases of institutional violence against Roma and assault against Roma, such as police raids, which should be investigated by the competent authorities, continued to be reported months prior to accession; further efforts are also necessary to improve equal access to desegregated quality education and health care;

The Decision mentions a number of specific priority themes on which the Programme should be based: - the importance of links and partnership between education and training systems, and between public, private and voluntary sector bodies working in these fields; - the need to ensure that vocational education, training and guidance systems lead young people to obtain recognised vocational qualifications, e.g. through credit accumulation and transfer systems; - the need to improve and co-ordinate existing systems for providing young people with guidande; - the need to promote equality of opportunity for girls and young women; - 2 - - th ...[+++]e needs of disadvantaged young people, particularly those who leave full-time compulsory education with few or no qualifications; - the need to encourage crativity, enterprise and initiative among young people, particularly to foster the growth of small and medium-sized firms.

We have agreed on the need for common rules and commitments, to ensure that economic policies take account of the requirements of basic social and human rights; on respect for the conventions on forced labour, child labour, trade union rights and collective bargaining, and on non-discrimination; on fair access to productive resources (especially land, credit and education); on universal availability of public assets and services designed to forestall the causes of poverty; on promoting equal opportunities for men and women - and full participation by women must be the great challenge facing us in the 21st century; on establishing ba ...[+++]sic instruments to ensure practical solidarity in the face of life's major hazards; on aid for social mobility through the acquisition of personal resources of education and health; and on receiving and integrating economic migrants.