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14 Mar Home affairs

Illegal Migrants Bill is unethical and unworkable

The Prime Minister’s recent meeting with President Emmanuel Macron represented a welcome thawing of relations between the United Kingdom and France.

22 Feb Culture

When human rights conflict, we must find an approach that centres the rights of all

In the rush to enshrine gender identity ideology in law, equality law and human rights risk being forgotten

22 Feb Culture

History has taught us that our hard-won rights can be easily eroded – an attack on one is an attack on all

History is a powerful teacher that returns again and again until we learn the lessons.

01 Feb Health

Two years on from the military coup, we must step up support for Myanmar’s persecuted health workers

Today marks the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar. Over the past 730 days, the citizens of Myanmar have faced increasing brutality at the hands of the junta.

22 Jan Foreign affairs

We must continue to impose sanctions on Iran for shamelessly bartering in human lives

It has been almost five months since Mahsa Amini was murdered by Iran’s morality police for her alleged noncompliance with the country’s repressive dress code.

04 Jan Home affairs

Protecting the right to strike has never been so important

“The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life...we take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike...”

11 Dec 2022 Foreign affairs

We owe it to the brave women of Iran to stand up against the regime’s brutality

In 2016, a desperate sounding man called my office asking for help as his wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, had been unlawfully detained in Iran while visiting her family.

Equality and human rights watchdog: human rights are not up for debate

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09 Dec 2022 Communities

Equality and human rights watchdog: human rights are not up for debate

As we mark Human Rights Day 2022, Chairwoman of the EHRC, Baroness Kishwer Falkner, writes that more should be done to ensure they remain protected today and for future generations.

22 Nov 2022 Foreign affairs

The UK must sanction Chinese officials guilty of human rights abuses

We currently live at a time when democracy is under threat in various geopolitical arenas across the globe.

16 Nov 2022 Culture

Fifa must be held accountable and compensate migrant workers suffering abuses in Qatar

When the Fifa World Cup kicks off in Qatar on 20 November, it will be one of the darkest days in the history of this amazing sport.

11 Nov 2022 Foreign affairs

Human rights abuses are plaguing Sri Lanka – the UK must step up and introduce sanctions

Thirteen years ago, a civil war on the island of Sri Lanka came to a bloody culmination. During the final months of the conflict, over a hundred thousand civilians suffered horrific human rights abuses and war crimes at the hands of the Sri Lankan government military.

09 Nov 2022 Foreign affairs

Leaders must step up solidarity for the Iranian people in their quest for ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’

Zhina Mahsa Amini’s death at the hands of the Islamic Republic’s morality police has sparked an unprecedented female-led movement embodied in the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom”.

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14 Oct 2022 Home affairs

Equality and Human Rights Commission re-accredited as ‘A status’ organisation

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been re-accredited as an ‘A status’ National Human Rights Institution (NHRI).

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01 Sep 2022 Home affairs

Equality watchdog takes action to address discrimination in use of artificial intelligence

The use of artificial intelligence by public bodies is to be monitored by Britain’s equality regulator for the first time to ensure technologies are not discriminating against people.

29 Aug 2022 Foreign affairs

Britain’s next prime minister must stand with Hong Kong

There’s something missing. The Conservative leadership contest has understandably been dominated by the candidates’ plans for addressing the cost-of-living crisis. Yet, whatever the merits of the two candidates’ approaches on this and other challenges, there’s an issue that deserves much more attention.

23 Aug 2022 History

We must not forget the horrors of the slave trade and those still subject to modern day slavery

What started with a campaign to end the slave trade, has evolved into a global movement still fighting for freedoms.

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06 Jul 2022 Home affairs

Costco and Swissport yet to report gender pay gap data

One-stop shopping giant Costco and aviation business Swissport are among 28 organisations that are yet to comply with their legal obligation and report their gender pay gap data for 2021–22, following the 30 March and 4 April deadlines.

16 Jun 2022 Home affairs

The Rwanda scheme is wrong – the British courts should strike it down completely

The government’s plan to dump asylum seekers in Rwanda is teetering on the edge of collapse.

15 Jun 2022 Brexit

The government’s threat to leave the ECHR to fulfil its Rwanda policy risks breaking the Good Friday Agreement

What a difference a day makes. In less than 24 hours Boris Johnson has gone from pretending to be a defender of the Good Friday Agreement, to threatening to remove the legal underpinnings of peace in Northern Ireland altogether.

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09 Jun 2022 Home affairs

Report finds evidence of inequality in treatment of ethnic minority ‘Covid heroes’ working in health and social care

Lower-paid health and social care workers, who played a pivotal front-line role during the Covid-19 pandemic, experienced bullying, racism and harassment at work according to their evidence to an inquiry conducted by Britain’s equality regulator, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

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26 May 2022 Home affairs

Pontins investigated over fears of racial discrimination against Gypsies and Travellers

Britain’s equality regulator has launched a formal investigation into Pontins holiday parks due to continued concerns about discrimination against Gypsies and Travellers.

17 May 2022 Home affairs

We’re in danger of losing our democracy

Last week, a young woman was arrested at her flat the day after stewarding a peaceful protest against the policies of our government.

13 May 2022 Social affairs

Will replacing the Human Rights Act make it harder to access justice?

The government is running a consultation on its proposals to revise the Human Rights Act and replace it with a Bill of Rights. Chaminda Jayanetti argues the plans do not take into account just how hard it is to access justice across the UK

05 May 2022 Health

Moves to overturn Roe v Wade shows women’s rights must never be taken for granted

Once over my disbelief, then anger, at reports indicating the United States Supreme Court is on the cusp of removing women’s right to access safe, legal abortion, I drew three lessons from the move.