In May 2013, Communities Minister Huw Lewis pledged that the Welsh Government will not follow England in dropping the commitment to assess the impact that policies have on different groups.
On 5 June 2013, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published its corporate plan for 2013/14.
A European Commission report published in 2013 finds that women in Europe received pensions that were 39 per cent lower on average than those of men.
The first report of the Liberal Democrat Task Force on Race Equality recommends maintaining the wider role of the EHRC and opposing all attempts to weaken the Equality Act.
Research published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests that the better-off were initially the hardest hit by recession but now it is the poor who are feeling the squeeze.
