‘Targets to eliminate the gender pay gap must be set by all companies, Britain’s equality watchdog has suggested.’
Daily Telegraph, 14th December 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Britain’s equality watchdog has launched an inquiry into racial harassment at universities amid mounting evidence of students and staff from minority groups facing abuse.’
The Guardian, 4th December 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A Parliamentary inquiry has reported, regulator the Office for Students has threatened to fine universities that fail to uphold free speech and the Equality and Human Rights Commission is drawing up guidelines for universities.’
BBC News, 23rd October 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘If you want to legally change your gender in the UK, first a doctor has to diagnose you with a medical condition.’
BBC News, 17th October 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A catalogue of disastrous consequences has followed a reduction in the scope of legal aid, including debt from high lawyers’ fees, possible ill-informed judicial decisions, and knock-on costs for other parts of the public sector, according to new research.’
Legal Futures, 10th September 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Non-disclosure agreements about sexual harassment in the workplace should be banned, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has said.’
Daily Telegraph, 27th March 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘If you’re following our work here at RightsInfo, the chances are you’re interested in following what’s going on with your human rights. So, you probably should know about the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).’
Rights Info, 5th January 2018
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘The Equality and Human Rights Commission is running short of board members and struggling to fulfil its duties because, lawyers allege, ministers are repeatedly vetoing appointments on political grounds.’
The Guardian, 18th December 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Britain’s human rights watchdog is to launch an inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire that will examine whether the government and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea failed in their duties to protect life and provide safe housing.’
The Guardian, 9th December 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Equality pops up all the time when we talk about human rights. In fact, the very first article of the UN Convention on Human Rights states that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”’
RightsInfo, 21st November 2017
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘A buy-to-let tycoon who banned Indian and Pakistani tenants “because of the curry smell” has been ordered to ditch the policy.’
BBC News, 8th November 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Joint Committee report on high heels and dress codes at work shows that discriminatory dress codes can promote the sexualised objectification of women at work, disadvantage people with disabilities, inhibit employment prospects, impair work performance and cause long term and substantial damage to health.’
Cloisters, 26th January 2017
Source: www.cloisters.com
‘Four hundred people killed themselves shortly after being released from police custody in England and Wales in the last seven years, a report says.’
BBC News, 10th December 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal Fees Order 2013 whereby fees were payable by a claimant or appellant on the commencement of a claim or an appeal and also in advance of the final hearing unless they were entitled to a remission on account of limited means was lawful and not discriminatory.’
WLR Daily, 26th August 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The Lord Chancellor’s Exceptional Funding Guidance (Inquests) (promulgated under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012) was unlawful in that it provided a misleading impression of the law for caseworkers considering an application from relatives of a deceased for legal aid to cover representation at an inquest into a death which arose in circumstances which might have engaged article 2 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.’
WLR Daily, 20th February 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Equality and Human Rights Commission upholds right to publish Mohammed cartoons but not to teach that gay people will ‘burn in Hell’.’
Daily Telegraph, 4th February 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Metropolitan police are to face a formal investigation by the equalities watchdog into whether the force broke the law and discriminated against staff.’
The Guardian, 15th December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A government decision to close a fund that helps disabled people to live and work in the community has been ruled lawful by the High Court.’
BBC News, 8th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A woman’s refusal to move a pushchair with a sleeping baby from a bay on a bus used by wheelchair passengers – causing a disabled man to have to leave the vehicle – is at the centre of a test-case legal battle in the court of appeal.’
The Guardian, 11th November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Scotland Yard is being investigated by a human rights watchdog for deleting references to discrimination from internal reports to avoid problems at tribunals.’
The Guardian, 22nd September 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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