A Good Name in the Public Square: Reframing Human Rights
7 August 2018
A blog by Kathryn Quinton, Communictions Director, Equality and Diversity Forum
A blog by Kathryn Quinton, Communictions Director, Equality and Diversity Forum
Just like the 2008 financial crisis, Brexit could be an opportunity to re-assert the centrality of core values such as equality and diversity. And yet, neither the UK government nor the EU have acknowledged their respective role in ensuring socio-economic rights in a post-Brexit settlement.
This is from our second contributor, Professor Roberta Guerrina at the University of Surrey who questions the exclusion of feminist voices from the Brexit negotiations.
41% of Britons think everyone in Britain enjoys the same basic human rights, whereas 35% disagree. This is according to research on human rights by
A key consideration of the EU negotiations should be the lived experiences of younger generations living in the UK. The July 2018 report by Common
The Department for Work and Pensions published statistical information on the policy that provides support for a maximum of 2 children in Child Tax Credit
Liberty, Business Disability Forum, the Equality and Diversity Forum along with other disability and human rights organisations have written a letter, dated 13 July 2018 to Trade Secretary Liam Fox to warn him that ministerial powers in the Trade Bill could be used to remove disabled people’s rights.
47% of Britons think that immigration has a “good” impact on the economy – 14% higher than two years earlier The 35th edition of the
The Brexit negotiations remind us that gender, racial and class inequality in the top echelons of policymaking remains alive and kicking. At the start of
Post-Brexit, we will be the only country in Europe where politicians will be free to remove and diminish hard-won rights, especially for women and minority
‘Women in the UK and gender experts have been distinctly under-represented both in the Brexit referendum campaign and in the ongoing negotiations for the withdrawal