Council of Europe initiative to promote older people’s human rights
4 April 2012
The Council of Europe has created a new drafting group to develop an instrument for promoting older people’s human rights.
The Council of Europe has created a new drafting group to develop an instrument for promoting older people’s human rights.
In March 2012, the Government published a new planning policy for traveller sites and the final equality impact assessment for the new policy.
In March 2012, the EHRC announced that it is no longer able to proceed with plans for further statutory codes of practice on the Public Sector Equality Duty.
In March 2012, the Government announced that it has decided to delay a decision on implementation of its proposed ban on age discrimination in the provision of services.
On 21 February 2012, the Department for Communities and Local Government published a strategy paper entitled ‘Creating the conditions for integration’.
In 2011, the EDF Research Network and EDF produced a dossier of evidence and research relating to equality to inform the Government’s evaluation of the Equality Act 2010.
A briefing on ‘Human rights and the Commission on a Bill of Rights’ was published in October 2011 to inform the work of equality and human rights NGOs
A Court of Appeal ruling means that disabled passengers are not covered by UK law and the European Regulation on air travel.
In January 2012, a jury in Derby found three men guilty of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation in the first criminal conviction in Britain for this offence.
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.