Maternity Action report and campaign to end discrimination against pregnant women in the workplace
9 December 2013
A report by Maternity Action calls on the Government to take urgent action to tackle pregnancy discrimination.
A report by Maternity Action calls on the Government to take urgent action to tackle pregnancy discrimination.
In ‘Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces’, Davina Cooper examines utopian projects as seemingly diverse as a feminist bathhouse, state equality initiatives, community trading networks, and a democratic school where students and staff collaborate in governing.
On 3 December 2013, the Ministry of Justices published a consultation paper titled ‘Court fees: Proposals for reform’. The consultation closed on 21 January 2014.
Equality Challenge Unit’s report on ‘Equality in higher education: statistical report 2013’ was published in November and identifies the equality challenges facing UK higher education.
The ‘Sharing Our Good Fortune: Understanding and Responding to Wealth Inequality’ report from the Policy Commission on the Distribution of Wealth was launched in October 2013.
In October 2013, Micro Rainbow International published a report entitled ‘Poverty, Sexual Orientation and Refugees in the UK’.
Austerity is being exploited to drive through budget cuts and reforms which are denying children their basic human rights, according to a major new report,
On 6 November 2013, the Court of Appeal upheld a legal challenge by five disabled people against the Government’s decision to close the Independent Living Fund.
A report on ‘Race Race Disproportionality in Stops and Searches; was published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission in November 2013.
In November 2013, the Government published its action plan setting out how government will take forward the recommendations of the Women’s Business Council Report.