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LGBTIQ Index: The Headhunter and UN Women award winners in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Headhunter and UN Women award companies for inclusion and equality in employment

The LGBTIQ Employment Equality Index Award ceremony, organized by The Headhunter and UN Women, was held last night in Sarajevo. Dm-drogerie markt and British Council won the Gold awards, Center for Investigative Journalism a Silver award, and the Bronze award was given to Klix.ba.

The ceremony was attended by representatives of domestic and foreign organizations, private companies, as well as representatives of the international community. The awards were given out by David Saunders, UN Women's Representative in BiH, British Ambassador - Edwards Ferguson, German Ambassador - Christiane Hohmann, and the CEO of the Headhunter Group Elton Ilirjani.

"The Index is prepared by the private sector for the private sector. It assesses the degree to which companies and institutions address discrimination and promote equality within the workplace. As a Workplace Equality Index it is only natural for UN Women to partner with a human resources and recruitment company to support establishing the Index.", said UN Women's Representative in BiH David Saunders.

Saunders added, "I have no doubt that next year we will see new companies joining Index, and, most importantly, I trust we will see improved steps by companies to promote genuine equality, and protect the rights, and dignity of LGBTIQ employees and candidates.“

"Although Headhunter Group successfully implemented the Index for several years in the region, this is the first year we are doing it in BiH. We are very satisfied with the support of partners from the international community who recognized the importance of this topic as well as domestic and foreign companies that have agreed to participate this year. It means a lot to us when the UN, the EU delegation or German, British, Japanese and the representatives of other embassies support us publicly. Our goal is to double the number of participating companies next year, and see positive developments in the internal practices of the companies we will be working with next year," said Headhunter Group CEO Elton Ilirjani.

The LGBTIQ Employment Equality Index is the project of The Headhunter Group, implemented in BiH with the UN Women's Office. The purpose of implementing the Index is to raise awareness of the discrimination LGBTIQ population faces in the workplace, as well as to increase equality, diversity and other positive practices in relation to candidates and employees.

 

 

Published : 11:35 (GMT+1), 13 December 2017