EHRC submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
12 May 2016
The EHRC’s submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights covers a number of equality and human rights issues.
The EHRC’s submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights covers a number of equality and human rights issues.
‘Pay and Parenthood. An analysis of wage inequality between mums and dads’ was published by the TUC in April 2016.
The first edition of the annual European Islamophobia Report (EIR) was published in May 2016. It recommends that Islamophobia be recognised as a crime and included in national statistics across Europe.
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published a report, Ensuring justice for hate crime victims: professional perspectives, in May 2016.
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights released an annual activity report for 2015 in April 2016.
The Equality and Diversity Forum produced a briefing on the European Union in April 2016, in anticipation of the referendum on the issue on 23 June 2016.
This explainer sets out Europe’s legal systems in relation to human rights and ‘helps to disentangle some of the issues relating to a complex and fragmented UK human rights framework that draws on two separate European legal systems’.
The February 2016 issue of the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice is a special issue on Equality and Human Rights guest-edited by Dr Tania Burchardt and Dr Moira Dustin.
Action on Hearing Loss produced a report Hearing Matters in 2016, presenting the latest evidence and setting out what action needs to be taken to improve the lives of people with hearing loss and to remove barriers in their way.
Maslaha and T2A have produced a report Young Muslims on Trial. The report is a scoping study on the impact of Islamophobia on criminal justice decision-making.