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Learning and Training to 18
A Fairer Future for All
Do you have an interest in issues affecting young people? Do you work for an education or training provider? If so, we'd like to invite you to join us at the Tate Modern on t...
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June 2 at 4:22am
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Commission welcomes UN Report on UK’s record on human rights
28 May 2009 The Commission today welcomed a UN report which finds that despite some improvements, some groups in the UK continue to experience significant inequality in wages, access to health and housing and other social services...
June 1 at 8:40am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission Police photographic surveillance of a peaceful protester was ruled unlawful under the Human Rights Act yesterday

Surveillance of protesters ruled illegal | UK news | The Guardian
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Photographing and storing images of campaigner Andrew Wood breached his human rights
May 22 at 9:33am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission Daily Mail reports that older mothers and immigrants are creating a new ‘baby boom’

Baby boom: Nearly quarter of babies are born to mothers from outside the UK as birth rate hits all-t
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
More than 15 per cent of all babies have both a mother and father born outside the UK. And in London, more than half of all children are born to foreign-born mothers.
May 22 at 8:21am
Ilham
Ilham at 9:18am May 22
keep it up!
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Equality and Human Rights Commission In the news - Baby-boomers pose an economic threat, economist George Magnus says in a new book featured in The Times

George Magnus: Britain is growing old and we’re not ready - Times Online
Source: business.timesonline.co.uk
Until 2005 George Magnus carried out the usual tasks of an investment bank’s chief economist: analysing retail sales figures, employment data and other issues affecting the market in which his employer, UBS, operated. ...
May 22 at 5:31am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission In the news - Telegraph says that churches will be banned from turning down gay job applicants under the Equality Bill

Law 'will force churches to employ gay staff'
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Christian organisations fear that the tightened legislation, which is due to come into force next year, will undermine the integrity of churches and dilute their moral message.
May 21 at 5:53am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission The Daily Express reports that older workers are more at risk of losing their jobs because employers are using the recession as an excuse to sack them.

Daily Express | UK News :: Older workers face job threat
Source: www.express.co.uk
Bosses are increasingly planning to get rid of mature staff even though most people believe they should have the right to work beyond 65, according to a new study.
May 20 at 9:06am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission BBC reports that the full reforms called for by an independent inquiry into contaminated blood scandal won't be carried out

BBC NEWS | Health | Tainted blood compensation upped
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Thousands of people in the UK using blood products, mainly those with haemophilia, were infected with HIV and hepatitis C during the 1970s and 1980s.
May 20 at 6:38am
Ilham
Ilham at 12:21pm May 20
this is shocking!
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Equality and Human Rights Commission Daily Mail: 70% of Britons want 'big' immigration cuts http://cli.gs/Y4UzRq BBC: More Eastern Europeans leaving UK http://cli.gs/Z5d1YP

70% of Britons want big cuts in the rate of immigration | Mail Online
Source: cli.gs
The YouGov survey found that just one person in 20 supports the current record levels, which have boosted Britain's population by 300,000 a year over the past five years.
May 20 at 5:13am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission In the news - Telegraph reports that all Gurkha veterans will be given the same right to settle in the UK

Victory for Joanna Lumley as all Gurkhas to be given right to settle in Britain
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
All Gurkha veterans will be given the same right to settle in Britain, ministers will announce on Thursday.
May 20 at 3:35am
Rachael
Rachael at 3:36am May 20
fantastic news
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Equality and Human Rights Commission A city worker is demanding £70,000 in compensation after she was allegedly told that having a child meant she could not be 'truly committed' to her job.

The £50,000-a-year City worker 'fired for being a mother' | Mail Online
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
Miss Weekes, who has an eight-year-old son, Nathan, says she was unfairly sacked from her £50,000-a-year post as an audit manager for Lloyds TSB after complaining about the comments.
May 19 at 10:04am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission New report suggests migrant workers were more likely to be killed in workplace accidents than UK employees.

Migrants twice as likely to die at work - The Scotsman
Source: thescotsman.scotsman.com
Research by the Centre for Corporate Accountability showed that migrant construction workers were at least twice as likely to die at work than those from the UK.
May 19 at 10:03am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission In the news - the Financial Times calls for 'women to make a decisive breakthrough in corporate boardrooms' and 'rebuild trust'

FT.com / Comment / Editorial - How to build diversity on boards
Source: www.ft.com
If there is ever a time for women to make a decisive breakthrough in corporate boardrooms, it is surely now. Many boards, especially in financial services, are in flux after the testosterone-fuelled excesses that led to financial disaster. There is a desperate need to rebuild trust, more easily achi...
May 19 at 5:43am
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Soldiers win human rights protection as Commission intervenes in landmark case
18 May 2009 The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will have to provide proper protection to soldiers serving overseas and more information to bereaved families, following today’s landmark human rights judgment in a Court of Appeal hearing...
May 18 at 7:13am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission The British Association for Adoption and Fostering has withdrawn its remark that critics of gay adoption were "retarded homophobes"

Adoption charity apologises for use of word 'retarded' | Society | guardian.co.uk
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Guide for gay adopters cited parent who condemned 'retarded homophobes'
May 15 at 10:25am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission Cambridge University students get option to say a non-religious grace at dinner. Mirror http://cli.gs/ErmEXb Guardian http://cli.gs/nhD4WG

Cambridge college axes refs to God and Jesus in grace - mirror.co.uk
Source: cli.gs
References to God and Jesus have been axed from the prayer at Cambridge's Newnham. Instead, it gives thanks for food and peace.
May 15 at 6:03am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission In the news - Protests as the Isle of Lewis ferry ends its Sabbath shutdown. Herald: http://cli.gs/6h65vJ BBC: http://cli.gs/L4ZQnM

Human Rights Laws Set To Force Sabbath Sailings (from The Herald )
Source: cli.gs
Human rights legislation is likely to force Sunday ferry services to be timetabled for the last great bastion of the Presbyterian Sabbath, Stornoway on Lewis.
May 15 at 3:54am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission Home Office figures show 1 in 8 terror arrests ends with a guilty verdict. Independent http://cli.gs/ZUpeyE Express http://cli.gs/7vMMAQ

Just one in eight terror arrests ends with guilty verdict, admits Home Office - Home News, UK - The
Source: cli.gs
Seven out of eight people arrested under Britain's terror laws since the al-Qa'ida attacks on America in 2001 were not convicted of a terrorism offence, figures released yesterday show.
May 14 at 9:28am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission The Daily Mail reports on a guide from British Association for Adopting & Fostering that 'slurs' critics of gay parenting

Slurred by the adoption Nazis: Critics of gay parenting are branded 'retarded homophobes' | Mail Onl
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
People who have concerns about the adoption of children by gay couples are 'retarded homophobes', the state-funded national adoption agency said yesterday.
May 14 at 7:03am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission In the news - Sir Michael Parkinson’s speech at the Royal College of Nursing calls on society to end "neglect" of elderly, reported in the Express

Daily Express | UK News :: Treat elderly with more respect, says Parky
Source: www.express.co.uk
UK News :: Treat elderly with more respect, says Parky - Breaking news from around the UK
May 14 at 4:23am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission A Scottish clergyman has likened the campaign against gay ministers to the war against the Nazis, reports The Times

Anti-gay minister the Rev Ian Watson in ‘Nazi battle’ outrage - Times Online
Source: timesonline.co.uk
The Church of Scotland is moving towards a schism after one of its ministers compared an increasingly determined campaign against gay clergymen to the war against the Nazis.
May 13 at 6:02am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission The Guardian reports on a study by the Fawcett Society which found discrimination against women pervades the criminal justice system in England and Wales.

Justice system a 'sexist operation', study finds | Politics | The Guardian
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Investigation by the Fawcett Society found that discrimination against women pervades the system at all levels
May 13 at 4:38am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission In the news - Daily Mirror claims that the Conservatives plans to use the Human Rights Act to allow an opt-out of the minimum wage

Tories bid to wreck minimum wage - mirror.co.uk
Source: www.mirror.co.uk
Union leaders and Labour MPs were last night furious at proposals to let workers opt out of the system put in place to stop their exploitation.
May 13 at 3:21am
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Commission in Scotland calls time on consensus that threatens Scotland's future
The Commission in Scotland has today issued a warning that the Scotland of 2030 will not be economically or socially fit for purpose unless Scots stop talking a good game on how fair and welcoming we are as a nation and start taking steps to realise our self image.Speaking ahead of a specially...
May 12 at 4:17pm
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Equality and Human Rights Commission David Green writing in the Telegraph argues that the Equality Bill will entrench social antagonism, not social cohesion

The Equality Bill will hinder not help
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Not only does the Equality Bill justify preferential treatment for groups, it also undermines one of the bedrock principles of British justice: the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, writes David Green.
May 12 at 7:54am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission Times Education Supplement reports on a project for teenagers in Aberdeenshire which explores respect and fairness

Rap gets down on the farm - Secondary - TES
Source: www.tes.co.uk
It’s all happening on an eight-week pilot project exploring respect and fairness
May 12 at 5:26am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission The Independent on Sunday is supporting Equalities Minister Harriet Harman's call for more women in the boardroom

Margareta Pagano: Harman's call for more women at the top is bang-on - Margareta Pagano , Business C
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Sometimes the best ideas come from the oddest places. Usually I find Harriet Harman's views on gender batty, but her latest call for more females on the boards of our nationalised banks – and other financial institutions – is not daft at all.
May 11 at 9:57am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission 'Dramatic moment' reported as migrants try to get to UK through lorries stuck in a traffic jam http://cli.gs/qbBq8E Child traffickers are targeting the UK because of the ease with which they can move victims through British ports and local authority care homes http://cli.gs/geG0p2

May 11 at 7:18am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission Women 'can’t depend on liberals for equality' says Guardian citing falling numbers of top female judges, MPs and editors

Women can't depend on liberals for equality. We need radical action now | Jenni Russell | Comment is
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Jenni Russell: Gender quotas in politics and the boardroom are the best way to shake our powerful men out of their cosy assumptions
May 11 at 5:47am
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Equality and Human Rights Commission In the news - Disabled victims of crime being failed by the system, says the Guardian following two cases in which the Crown Prosecution Service and the police were forced to apologise for not offences seriously enough

Police and prosecutors apologise to disabled victims of crime | Politics | The Guardian
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Teenager with learning difficulties receives £70,000 payout after police fail to give case adequate investigation
May 11 at 3:58am