Unia collaborations at national level
Unia collaborates with many national players to combat discrimination and defend fundamental rights in Belgium. Unia has signed collaboration protocols with these associations and organisations, which provides an official structure to our work, both at local and national level.
Collaboration with other institutions with a mandate to defend human rights
Unia is part of the human rights platform, along with other organisations at all levels of authority: regional, communal, federal and inter-federal.
This human rights platform is a joint consultation forum, that enables issues to be evaluated together, good practices to be shared and cooperation between institutions to be encouraged.
Open At the regional and community level
Open At the federal level
- Data Protection Authority
- Standing Police Monitoring Committee (P Committee)
- Standing Committee on Intelligence and Security Services (R/I Committee)
- Central Prison Supervision Board
- High Council of Justice
- Federal Institute for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights
- Institute for the Equality of Women and Men
- Federal Ombudsman
- Myria
- Police Information Review Body
Collaboration with other institutions, civil society and the social partners
Unia works with numerous organisations and associations to defend fundamental rights and combat discrimination. To formalise our work, Unia has signed numerous collaboration protocols over the years.
Open Social partners
Unia has signed collaboration protocols with the FGTB/ABVV, the CSC/ACV and the CGSLB/ACLVB, which defend workers' rights.
Unia has also signed memorandums of understanding with the employers' organisations BECI, Boerenbond, FEB, UCM, UNISOC, UNIZO, UWE and VOKA in order to improve the management of diversity in the labour market through the sharing of expertise.
Open Civil society
Organisations defending the rights of people with disabilities
Unia has signed collaboration protocols with AccessAndGo, Altéo, Esenca, the National High Council for the Disabled (CSNPH/NHRPH), the Diabetes Liga, Doof Vlaanderen, Eqla and the French-speaking Federation of the Deaf in Belgium (FFSB), Hama, Handiplus, Stan, Inclusion ASBL, Inter Vlaanderen, Dito, Kom op tegen Kanker, Ligue Braille/Brailleliga, Ligue des droits de l'enfant and Conseil The Central Monitoring Board for the Prison System (CCSP/CTRG).
Federations of LGBTI+ associations
Unia is working with the Prisme, çavaria and Rainbowhouse federations to improve support for people who report discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. We also work together on information, prevention and awareness-raising campaigns.
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Open Other institutions and organisations
At local level: towns and municipalities
Unia has signed collaboration protocols with the cities of Aalst, Antwerp, Bruges, Kortrijk, Ghent, Genk, Hasselt, Leuven, Mechelen, Roeselare and Sint-Niklaas. Thanks to these agreements, Unia can help cities to manage diversity by helping them amongst other things to organise situation testing.
Partners in education
Unia works with education authorities and federations of education authorities to promote diversity at school.
- Sensoa, the Flemish expertise centre in charge of sexual health
- Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), the audiovisual media regulator in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation
- Actiris, the Brussels regional employment office
- Labour Inspectorate and its inspection service for monitoring social legislation