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The Equal Rights Trust is a company limited by guarantee incorporated in England. Company number 5559173. It is also a registered charity, number 1113288.
The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) is an independent organisation whose purpose is to combat discrimination and promote equality as a fundamental
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11/11/2008 - ERT Calls for Broad Public Endorsement of the Principles on Equality via Internet
The launch of the Declaration of Principles on Equality, on 21 October 2008 in London, marked the beginning of a "Vote for Equality" campaign for its universal recognition. The Declaration should become the basis for a new covenant on equality in the 21st Century.
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21/10/2008 - Experts Urge New Era of Global Human Rights and Equality Amidst Economic Turmoil
More than 120 of the world’s leading human rights and equality experts are today calling for the most radical re-think of equal rights in two generations as global economic turmoil holds nations in its grip.
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03/09/2008 - Medical practitioners’ right to religious freedom does not override compliance with non-discrimination law, says US Court
On 18 August 2008, the Supreme Court of California, in the case of North Coast Women’s Care Medical Care Group, Inc., et al., v. San Diego County Superior Court, S 142892. Ct. App. 4/1 D045438, rejected the argument that the right to religious freedom and free speech, as guaranteed by both federal and state law, exempted a medical clinic’s physicians from complying with the prohibition against discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation set out in the California Unruh Civil Rights Act (the Act).
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