Social inequality

BELGRADE - Despite the fact that Serbian regulations are in line with international standards and prohibit discrimination, Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic notes that there is room to improve further the practice of curbing discrimination, the obmudsman's office said in a statement on Friday.

BELGRADE- The Serbian parliamentary committee on human and minority rights and gender equality discussed on Thursday with Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks the position of Roma and disabled persons and the fight against discrimination and violence against women.

President Klaus Iohannis has promulgated on Friday several laws, among which the one stipulating the Day of Equal Opportunities between women and men, to be on May 8.

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The pressure resulting from rising consumer prices has increased significantly on Turkey's lowest income group over the last six years, causing the gap between the country's rich and poor to reach record highs, according to an economy note issued by Bahçe?ehir University's Center for Economic and Social Research (BETAM) on March 2.

Wealth accumulated by the richest one percent will exceed that of the other 99 percent in 2016, the Oxfam charity said Jan. 19, ahead of the annual meeting of the world's most powerful at Davos, Switzerland.
      

The Environment Ministry has announced a one-year extension for property owners who want to declare illegally constructed buildings or building additions in order to be granted immunity from demolition until February 8, 2016.

 Acclaimed French economist warns of risks if eurozone countries do not demonstrate that they want to stay together

By Xenia Kounalaki

The plight of an eight-year-old Chinese boy with HIV, reportedly ordered to leave his village by 200 petitioners, sparked intense online soul-searching Dec. 18 in a country where discrimination against sufferers remains rife.
      

There is only one problem in the Turkish education system; all other problems are sub-titles of this single problem: Inequality.

Education is the place where all the nationwide inequalities experienced in every walk of life start, and where they are reproduced every year.

The gap between the rich and poor in a range of countries has reached its widest in 30 years and the trend has harmed growth, the OECD said Dec. 9.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said in a new report that most of its 34 member countries had seen a growing widening in the inequality gap.