In January 2012, the Prime Minister David Cameron gave a speech stressing the UK’s commitment to human rights but proposing reforms to the European Court of Human Rights.
From February 2012, the EHRC will be assessing the information published by relevant public authorities as part of EHRC’s monitoring and enforcement work on the equality duty.
In January 2012, a jury in Derby found three men guilty of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation in the first criminal conviction in Britain for this offence.
On 25 January 2012, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published ‘The Racial Equality Directive: application and challenges’.
In January 2012, the Equality and Diversity Forum made a submission to the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee.
In January 2012, the Equality and Diversity Forum (EDF) submitted a response to the Office for National Statistics consultation looking at alternatives to the Census.
In January 2012, the Equality and Diversity Forum (EDF) held a Public Sector Equality Duty training event.
Asylum Aid’s new research report ‘I feel like as a woman I’m not welcome’ was published in January 2012.
On 24 January 2012, End Violence Against Women, Object, Equality Now and Eaves gave oral evidence to the Leveson Inquiry about the media’s biased and prejudicial treatment of women.
In January 2012, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation published ‘Serving deprived communities in a time of recession’.
