@EHRC have published their strategic plan for 2019-2022, which explains how they will protect and promote equality and human rights in Britain..
‘Stop counterposing race and class’, says the July 2019 report (pdf) from Runnymede Trust and CLASS. ‘We are ghosts’: race, class and institutional prejudice makes the case that the working class is not white but multi-ethnic and has always included migrants.
‘In the UK today women are, on average, more likely to enter the workforce with higher qualifications than men, but earn less per hour’ This
The Department for Education have carried out an equalities impact assessment (pdf) for the period products scheme to provide access to period products in education institutions in England.
Communities Minister Lord Bourne has launched a June 2019 national strategy to tackle entrenched inequality and improve the lives of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.
People from BAME backgrounds are more at risk of experiencing certain factors that cause loneliness and can often face greater barriers to accessing support.
‘The bottom line is that much of the glue that has held British society together since the Second World War has been deliberately removed and
‘We are very concerned about the growing evidence of structural design flaws which cause real hardship for many claimants, with those in the most vulnerable
‘The Agenda 2030 project will only succeed if we deliver the SDGs with human rights embedded within them.’ This is from the FRA report, released
There were 1,465 children in England securely detained in 2018, of whom 873 were in held in youth justice settings, 505 were in mental health wards and 87 were in secure children’s homes for their own welfare.
