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Browse our own reports and guidance for good practice in human rights delivery:
- New!! Human rights at home: Guidance for social housing providers
- Human Rights Inquiry report
- Making rights a reality: Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Equal Opportunities and Human Rights - The first decade of devolution in Wales
- Ours to own - understanding human rights
- The United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities - What does it mean for you?
- Human rights toolkit for advocates
- An employer's guide to... Creating an inclusive workplace
Featured guidance
Human rights at home: Guidance for social housing providers
In May 2011 we published this new guidance developed in consultation with practitioners in the housing sector. Find out more and read an online summary.
This guidance is intended to be a practical tool, to help those who work in social housing to comply with the Human Rights Act.
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A Human Rights Inquiry report
Human Rights Inquiry - full report
Report on our research into the Human Rights Act's first ten years which makes a number of recommendations to help embed human rights in the public sector.
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Human Rights Inquiry report - Executive summary
Summary version of the Human Rights Inquiry report setting out the Inquiry's findings and the Commission's recommendations.
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Easy Read: Human Rights Inquiry report
Easy Read report about human rights, what we found out throught our inquiry and what else we think should be done.
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Making rights a reality: Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Booklet explaining the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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Equal Opportunities and Human Rights - The first decade of devolution in Wales
Written on the tenth anniversary of the creation of the National Assembly, the purpose of this report is to critically evaluate how equality and human rights have fared under devolution.
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Ours to own - understanding human rights
This guide looks at what human rights mean in the context of everyday life, how they have affected real people and why they are therefore so important.
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Easy Read: Ours to own
An Easy Read booklet about human rights and what they mean for you.
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities - What does it mean for you?
This new guide will help disabled people know what their rights are and how to use them. It will also help people to challenge injustices and improve services and help organisations understand their responsibilities.
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Easy Read: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities - What does it mean for you?
Easy Read guide to the Convention which will help disabled people know what their rights are and how to use them.
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Guidance from Action for Advocacy - Human rights toolkit for advocates
Action for Advocacy, the independent advocacy organisation developed a toolkit based on an initial series of Commission-funded training days to advocates across England and Wales. The toolkit is a resource to promote further thinking and better use of resources that can support advocates to use human rights in their advocacy work.
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An employer's guide to... Creating an inclusive workplace
This guide contains a range of ideas to help you use human rights principles to create an inclusive workplace.
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Resources
Other human rights publications from the Commission:
- A Lever for Change: Using the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- From local voices to global audience: Engaging with the International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (pdf)
- Human rights and the public sector: Deconstructing the myths (Guardian Public supplement)