Speaking at an EDF event, Thomas Hammarberg, the European Commissioner for Human Rights, warned that watering down British laws ‘would send a dangerous signal to undemocratic states’.
In January 2012, the EHRC announced that it would use the first two age discrimination cases to be heard by the UK’s Supreme Court to argue for clarification of the law.
In January 2012, the Women’s Resource Centre published ‘Hidden Value: Demonstrating the extraordinary impact of women’s voluntary and community organisations’.
In Winter 2011, the Equality and Human Rights Commission published the Human Rights Measurement Framework.
The Government is commissioning a new Equality Advisory and Support Service to provide a high-quality service helping individuals in England, Scotland and Wales who have problems with discrimination.
