In July 2011, the Equality and Human Rights Commission published its shadow report to the Committee for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD).
A report by UN Women shows that in many countries of the world, the rule of law still rules women out.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission website provides details of the UN conventions that EHRC is responsible for monitoring and a ‘UN treaty monitoring scorecard’.
On 17 June 2011, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a Resolution expressing grave concern about acts of violence and discrimination against individuals because of their sexual orientation and gender identity.
The Government submitted the UK’s 7th Periodic Report on implementation of the Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women (CEDAW) to the UN on 10 June 2011.
‘The Practitioners Guide on Migration and International Human Rights Law’ analyses the protection afforded to migrants by international law and the means to implement it at national and international levels.
‘Bearing the brunt, leading the response. Women and the global economic crisis’ was published by the TUC in March 2011.
‘From Rights to Action: Using International rights and mechanisms on violence against women in the UK’ was published in 2011 by Rights of Women.
The Protecting Refugees information pack is a joint initiative by the Council of Europe and the UNHCR.
In 2010, UNICEF published ‘The children left behind. A league table of inequality in child well-being in the world’s rich countries’.
