APPG meeting on Parliament’s role in the current review of ICESCR – 18 March 2014
On the 18 March 2014 the APPG on Equalities held a meeting in the House of Commons on Parliament’s role in the current review of the International
On the 18 March 2014 the APPG on Equalities held a meeting in the House of Commons on Parliament’s role in the current review of the International
On Saturday 8 March 2014, as we celebrated International Women’s Day, Janet Veitch from End Violence Against Women asked ‘Is there really anything to celebrate?’
On 26 February 2014, the EHRC announced that the Disability Committee will end as a formal statutory committee in 2017.
On Saturday 8 March 2014, to coincide with International Women’s Day, the government published an updated violence against women and girls action plan.

A report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) presents results from the world’s biggest-ever survey on violence against women, revealing the extent of abuse suffered by women at home, work, in public and online.
‘The Stephen Lawrence independent review. Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case’ was published by the Government on 6 March 2014.
‘Scottish Government Equality Outcomes: Ethnicity Evidence Review’ was published on 7 March 2014.
This report ‘paints a stark picture of Wales. One that shows women are largely missing from the decision-making tables across most areas of our daily life’.
On the occasion of the 2014 European Equal Pay Day, the European Commission published a brochure ‘Tackling the gender pay gap in the European Union’.

A report to the Government Equalities Office examining behaviour change insights to improve equalities policy outcomes was published in February 2014.