25 August 2021
Grants for promoting rights, non-discrimination, equality, including gender equality, and advance gender and non-discrimination mainstreaming.
Priorities and funded actions
This strand aims to support a comprehensive and intersectional approach and specific actions to promote equality, tackle discrimination and improve responses to racism and xenophobia in the form of hate speech and hate crime, both on- and offline. It also aims to address the vulnerabilities of specific groups and communities particularly affected by discrimination, such as Roma, Jews, Muslims, migrants, people of colour and people of African descent. It will support the implementation of the EU anti-racism action plan for 2020-2025, the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025, the EU Roma strategic framework on equality, inclusion and participation, and the forthcoming EU Strategy on combating antisemitism.
Objectives
- To prevent and combat inequalities and discrimination on grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation and respecting the principle of non-discrimination on the grounds provided for in Article 21 of the EU Charter;
- To promote women’s full enjoyment of rights, gender equality, including work-life balance, women’s empowerment and gender mainstreaming;
- To combat all forms of discrimination, racism, xenophobia, afrophobia, antisemitism, anti-gypsism, anti-muslim hatred, and other forms of intolerance, including homophobia and other forms of intolerance based on gender identity both online and offline;
Priorities
- To protect and promote the rights of the child, awareness raising of children rights in judicial proceedings, capacity-building of child protection systems;
- To protect and promote the rights of persons with disabilities, for their active inclusion and full participation in society;
- To tackle the challenges related to the protection of personal data and data protection reform, as well as to support the stakeholder dialogue in this area;
- To support the efforts to enable people to exercise their rights as EU citizens and enforce free movement rights, as well as tackling the abuse of those rights
Structure
- Equality and non-discrimination
- Gender equality
- Combating racism, xenophobia and all forms of intolerance
- Rights of the child
- Rights of persons with disabilities
- EU citizenship rights
- Data protection
Among financed actions
- Training;
- Mutual learning, exchange of good practices;
- Data recording, data collection;
- Mapping;
- Meetings, working groups, seminars, events at national, regional or local levels
Contact
Salla SAASTAMOINEN
+32-229-69463
https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/justice-and-consumers_fr
Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers > Civil and commercial justice (JUST.A)
European Commission