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Ecuador Earthquake: What lawyers can do

25 April 2016
On Saturday 16 of April an earthquake struck Ecuador. At 7.8 on the Richter scale, it levelled various towns of the province of Manabí, in particular Pedernales, Manta and Portoviejo. At current estimates, it has killed more than 500 persons. Many of them died a slow death, after days of being...
by:
- G.M. Arosemena Solorzano
in Law
What next?

25 April 2016
What is the meaning of 'as soon as possible'? That question is now topical on the Ukraine referendum. This article is only available in Dutch.
by:
- A.W. Heringa
in Law
EU Equality Law: headscarves at the workplace and segregation of Roma children in schools

3 September 2015

Two prominent issues on the agenda of European equality lawyers have so far largely (although see recently CJ C-83/14 Nikolova) remained outside scrutiny of the Court of Justice of the European Union: discrimination on grounds of religion or belief and segregation of Roma. Recent developments may...