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Saturday 2 June 2007

Malta clashes with Council of Europe over 'gender inequality'


The Maltese government has clashed with the Council of Europe by shortlisting three male judges for European Court nominations even though the Council said one must be a woman.

Member states of the Council, a pan-European organisation that aims to protect human rights, nominate three people, one of whom is chosen to sit at the European Court.

Malta's present judge, a man, just turned 70 and will retire.

Last month a legal affairs committee of the Council of Europe proposed that one-gender short lists may be accepted in exceptional circumstances, but an Equal Opportunities Committee rejected the proposal.

Source: Daily Mail


Out of the rucksack perhaps ... but it is interesting how Malta makes the news amid current world events?


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Original photograph by Matthew James