On 31 May 2016, the European Commission together with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube unveiled a code of conduct that includes a series of commitments to combat the spread of illegal hate speech online in Europe.
Equinet – the European Network of Equality Bodies – published a working paper on developing standards for equality bodies in June 2016.
A paper on ‘UK Disabled People and their Families – Stronger and Safer inside the EU’ argues that the lives of UK disabled people and their families have been improved through membership of the EU.
Little or no consideration has been given to the gendered impact of “mainstream” EU policies. Roberta Guerrina discusses the gender dimension of the Brexit debate
In May 2016, the TUC published a briefing on the risks of Brexit in relation to disability rights explaining how the EU improves disability rights.
Disabled People Stronger In is a Facebook page that was set up to make the case for disabled people and their families to vote for Britain to Remain in the European Union on 23rd June 2016.
This explainer sets out Europe’s legal systems in relation to human rights and ‘helps to disentangle some of the issues relating to a complex and fragmented UK human rights framework that draws on two separate European legal systems’.
The EU “doing things for women” is not enough. Women need to be “doing things” in the EU. Charlotte O’Brien from the University of York
In March 2016, EUmatters published an article on Brexit and working women’s rights.
Voxter released a February 2016 survey on Brexit with polls suggesting that the final vote will be very close.
