30 March 2010
The Commission launches its good practice guidelines to increase employment and local business opportunities created by the London 2012 Olympics.
24 March 2010
The Commission in Scotland has welcomed new laws coming into force across Scotland today that will directly address how Scotland’s courts deal with the perpetrators of hate crime. However the Commission has warned that until further action is taken to address the behaviour and rehabilitation of hate crime offenders, we will still have a long way to go before we can call a halt to the harassment and harm that continues to blight the lives of many Scots.
15 March 2010
The Commission has responded to the Joint Committee on Human Rights report of March 2010.
15 March 2010
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is to write to the police forces with the most disproportionate use of stop and search tactics to raise its concerns over possible breaches of the Race Relations Act.
13 March 2010
A Commission inquiry has uncovered widespread evidence of the mistreatment and exploitation of migrant and agency workers in the meat and poultry processing sector.
12 March 2010
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has won its enforcement case against the BNP, after a ruling today that the party’s new revised constitution is indirectly racially discriminatory. The Commission had already told the court that the BNP needed to alter its previous constitution because it was directly racially discriminatory. Both kinds of discrimination are unlawful.
02 March 2010
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) today found that the British government’s treatment of two Iraqi nationals who were held in British custody in Basra until the transfer of sovereignty to Iraq breached their human rights.
02 March 2010
Grandparents who are filling the ‘care gap’ in some of Britain’s most vulnerable families are risking hardship themselves, a new report from Grandparents Plus and the Equality and Human Rights Commission reveals.
01 March 2010
Watering down the UK’s human rights legislation would seriously damage the country’s credibility on the international stage and undermine rather than enhance our security, the Commission warned today. The warning coincides with a debate hosted by the Commission with the three main political parties on the future of human rights legislation in Britain.