The subject is focused on different concepts of discrimination and diversity, as well as the foundations of the prohibition of discrimination protected until now by primary and secondary legislation of the EU (race and ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation), European public policy measures regarding equal treatment and recent dimensions of the problem in the context of the legal status of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU in the post-Lisbon era. In terms of content and teaching, the focus of the lecture is on several thematic units, which include the following: international agreements on the suppression of all forms of discrimination against women; the right to equality in the European Union; discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender and gender reassignment, disability, religion, sexual orientation and age in the practice of the EU Court; policies of equal opportunities in the EU - reconciliation of work and family life, maternity and parental leave and childcare, and policies of equal opportunities in the EU regarding domestic violence, prostitution and trafficking in women. Gender diversity will also be analyzed, from gender equality to multiple forms of discrimination, problems of abuse and harassment in the workplace; Europeanization and the expansion of the influence of the European anti-discrimination policy on old and new member states, the role of regulatory bodies, legal means to combat discrimination and the implementation of the right to equality.

Understanding the various causes, sources and consequences of discrimination, as well as social policy measures and their implications at the European and national level., Critical reflection on (anti)discrimination issues, with an emphasis on connecting theoretical concepts with examples from practice., Understanding and interpretation of the complex issue of equal treatment in the European community dimension, but also in relation to the practice of the European Court of Human Rights of the Council of Europe., Interpretation, summarization and critical evaluation of the phenomenon of discrimination, socially conditioned stereotypes and prejudices in the context of legal-philosophical debates on tolerance, equality and social stratification., Independent analysis, categorization and explanation of the complexity of the phenomenon of discrimination based on gender, age, disability, sexual orientation and racial/ethnic affiliation in the European and national environment, and to create new knowledge and profile new research problems in the aforementioned area,