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is regarded a powerful and negative overlap of gender-related stereotypes with the stereo- types from other criteria, leading to a specific disadvantage for certain women communities. Gender-related stereotypes and religion-related stereotypes are at play in islamophobia.

The discussions were moderated and reviewed by Tena Simonovic Einwalter from the Cro- atian Ombudsman Office, Niall Crowley from Ireland, Jessica Machacova and Tamas Kadar from the Equinet Secretariat (Belgium).

The October meeting of the Equinet Policy-Formation Working Group took place in Brussels. The discussions were moderated and reviewed by Tena Simonovic Einwalter from the Croatian Ombudsman Office, Niall Crowley from Ireland, Jessica Machacova and Tamas Kadar from the Equinet Secretariat (Belgium) and attended by 11 representatives from the institutions (Sweden, Malta, Belgium, Poland, Romania, Austria, Serbia, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Greece, France).

Among the new facts presented by the participants, what stood out was that France included a new criterion for discrimination, namely the economic vulnerability.

The final version of the report on intersectionality and the need for each institution to em- brace it was submitted for discussions. Only six countries from the Western Europe worked on this dimension. Among the East-European ex-communist countries, only the Czech Republic and Poland conducted intersectional investigations about old women and women with disabilities, old people suffering from dementia, the sterilization of Roma women and Roma children school enrolment.

Each participant presented the particularities of young people discrimination in their countries. We showed that in Romania young people are facing the lack of jobs and lack of representation. According to the latest European survey, over 90% of the Romanian population have religious beliefs, with zero doubts (the category “I don’t know” is not represented), which can lead to young generations not finding their place. Among the best practices, the practices in France and Poland stood out - the Group/Council of young people against discrimination - with the equality promoting bodies prepare the students, every six months, to visit schools and talk to children about their rights and about non-discrimination. We presented Romania’s program - Non-discrimination in schools - and the results after 9 years of the program implementation.

EQUINET 2017 Plan was presented and discussed, in which the topics approached by the group would be LGBTI and migration - including the preparation of the Conference on asy- lum and migration.

The Working Group for enforcement of laws

In the month of March, the representative of the Legal Department attended the meeting on: “Affordability and Reasonable accommodation” of the legislation enforcement working group, which was organized by Equinet and took place in Brussels.

The purpose of the meeting was to introduce a research paper on the positive tasks and equality in Europe, with the requirement to show, in the research, that positive tasks go beyond the

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