Equality and Human Rights Commission

As an official human rights body, one of the Commission’s roles is to submit evidence and reports to national, regional and international human rights committees, relating to the situation in Britain. In this section you will find details of these reports.

International human rights framework

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has the status of Great Britain’s national human rights institution, which gives us a key role in engaging with the United Nations’ human rights system. Follow this link to find out more about the UN’s international human rights committees. 

In this section:

• Economic, social and cultural rights
• Elimination of racial discrimination
• Rights of the child
• Rights of disabled people
• Elimination of discrimination against women
• Civil and political rights

You can find more information about human rights, including details of our human rights inquiry within the Human Rights section.