Today, the Equal Rights Trust and Transparency International launch a new global study, Defying Exclusion: Stories and Insights on the Links between Discrimination and Corruption, investigating the relationship between discrimination and corruption.

BLAM and ERT launch the Olive Morris Fellowship to support a legal researcher to investigate the link between the gaps in the National Curriculum and patterns of racial prejudice and discrimination in the UK. The Fellowship is part of our new initiative working in partnership to implement the UK's equality law obligations to adopt measures in its educational system to combat prejudices which lead to racial discrimination.

The Equal Rights Trust's Bob Hepple Equality Law Fellowship seeks to support the professional development of researchers on equality law. Participants have until 15 October 2020 (4pm BST) to enter our essay competition. Click to find out more!

Protecting Minority Rights: A Practical Guide on Developing Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Legislation is due to be published in 2021. Click to learn more about how we support equality defenders in their efforts to secure the adoption of comprehensive equality laws.

The Equal Rights Trust has brought together an unprecedented coalition of 12 leading global equality organisations to express our grave concern that “while COVID-19 is indiscriminate, the impacts of State responses to it are not.” Click to read the call to action.

An Equal Rights Approach to Sustainable Development: Why is it important? See our new animation!

We are proud to launch our new strategy, in which we espouse our vision for an equal world. Our strategy puts equality defenders at its heart, as we commit to working in partnership to use the law to advance equality and combat discrimination.

Our report illustrates how equality law can and should be used to address the problem of out-of-school children.