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The training for the National Communication Officers is just over, and I came back to Strasbourg with renewed enthusiasm and energy (working all the day behind a computer screen is quite an alienating experience for somebody with a background in non formal education...).

Today I was checking the statistics of the website, and I just realised that - for some reason I don't know - during April we had a change in the distribution of the visitors of the website.

An increasing number of French women find the distinction of title between married and single women annoying. In French, Madame is used when speaking to a married woman, while Mademoiselle is used for single women. The reason why some women are irritated by this is that you have to specify your marital status for the most random things, ranging from buying a train ticket online to opening a bank account or filling in official documents. Why women have to state their marital status when men don't have to bother? (Monsieur conviniently works for both married men and bachelors). There's a petition circulating on the web in order to abrogate the mandatory use of 'mademoiselle', which is regarded by a many as a sign that France is still very much a patriarcal society...

The following article describes how homosexuals in Greece have been prevented from joining the army and doing their military service.

This is from the online edition of the Nouvel Observateur

Grèce : les homosexuels interdits d'armée

NOUVELOBS.COM | 28.03.06 | 17:53

L'état-major annonce que les homosexuels n'ont plus le droit d'effectuer leur service national.

You might have guessed what this post is all about if you followed the adventures of Andrea. Finally we made our way up to the top of Google!! As from today, when you type "All Different All Equal" into Google (international version), we are the first result to be displayed (the second one if you type "Diversity, Human Rights, Participation").

Still in the line of Google doesn't love us yet...

Checking the statistics of the portal (more specifically, finding out how people find our website on Google) I found out some very interesting search keys (the words used for a search):

• "Why all equal when all different?" - I suppose this could be a good topic for the forums!
• "island of zamunda" - So, I assume our message got off coast Guinea!
• "We are all different slogans" - ...when a motto becomes an identity!
• "Are we all equal?" - ...at least in dignity, I would say!
• "Responsible for Flanders pillar 2 Romania 2006" - Quite mysterious!

But the award winner, in the search keys in Google (we are the #1 in the list of results!!) is...

    "hadise condom"

So, dear campaigners, don't forget to link your site to ours as described in Google doesn't love us yet as you can see it really helps in being reached!!

Peace and Love!
Mac.