This is a Government of the United Kingdom White Paper setting out the Government’s vision for the implementation of a new Commission for Equality and Human Rights in Britain.
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Country: United Kingdom
Document type: Policy Documents
Topic: Positive Action, Unified Human Rights Framework on Equality
Document date: 12 May 2004
"Legislating for Equality in Colombia: Constitutional Jurisprudence, Tutelas, and Social Reform" is an Equal Rights Review (vol. 1) article written by Patrick Delaney.
Country: Colombia
Document type: Articles and Commentary
Topic: Remedies and Enforcement
Document date: 28 Mar 2008
On 30 April 2008 The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) wrote to Jose Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission, regarding the Commission’s plan to draft a non-discrimination directive on the basis of Article 13 of the Amsterdam Treaty.
Document type: Policy Documents
Topic: Multiple Discrimination, Positive Action, Unified Human Rights Framework on Equality
Document date: 30 Apr 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
"Slums, the Right to Adequate Housing and the Ban on Discrimination", is an Equal Rights Review (vol.1) article, written by Claude Cahn.
Country: Slovakia
Document type: Articles and Commentary
Topic: Development and Equal Rights, Race and Ethnicity
Document date: 28 Mar 2008
"Testimony of an “erased” stateless person from Slovenia, taken by Donatella Fregonese" appears in The Equal Rights Review (vol.1).
Country: Slovenia
Document type: Equal Rights Trust Other
Topic: Other Status, Citizenship
Document date: 28 Mar 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
"Interview: Replacing the Patchwork – a New Cloth for Equality? ERT talks with Barbara Cohen and John Wadham about recent developments in British equality law" appears in The Equal Rights Review (vol.1).
Country: United Kingdom
Document type: Equal Rights Trust Other
Topic: Unified Human Rights Framework on Equality, Multiple Discrimination, Positive Action, Remedies and Enforcement
Document date: 28 Mar 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
Ivan Fiser, ERT Advocacy and Research Director, sets out ERT's advocacy work from June 2007 to January 2008 in The Equal Rights Review (vol.1).
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Document date: 28 Mar 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
Current Projects of The Equal Rights Trust as of 28 March 2008.
Document type: Equal Rights Trust Other
Document date: 28 Mar 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
ERT Work Itinerary: January 2007 - January 2008
Document type: Equal Rights Trust Other
Document date: 28 Mar 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
This paper was delivered by Gilberto Rincon Gallardo, President of the National Council for the prevention of Discrimination in Mexico, at ERT Conference “Principles on Equality” on 4 April 2008.
Country: Mexico
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Topic: Positive Action, Race and Ethnicity, Gender Identity, Remedies and Enforcement
Document date: 04 Apr 2008
This is the programme for the ERT conference "Principles on Equality and the Development of Legal Standards on Equality"
Document type: Equal Rights Trust Other
Document date: 02 Apr 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
This is the list of participants for the ERT conference "Principles on Equality".
Document type: Equal Rights Trust Other
Document date: 03 Apr 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
This is the report of The Equal Rights Trust conference "Principles on Equality and the Development of Legal Standards on Equality".
Document type: Reports
Document date: 02 May 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
On 30th April 2008 The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) wrote to Jose Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission, regarding the Commission’s plan to draft a non-discrimination directive on the basis of Article 13 of the Amsterdam Treaty.
In a...
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Document date: 30 Apr 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
On Thursday 3 April 2008, Ecuador became the twentieth country to ratify the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This ratification means that the Convention along with its Optional Protocol, permitting individual...
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Topic: Disability
Document date: 09 Apr 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
On the 28th of March 2008 The Equal Rights Trust published the first issue of The Equal Rights Review (ERR), an interdisciplinary biannual intended as a forum for the exchange of legal, philosophical, sociological and other ideas and practical insights from...
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Document date: 28 Mar 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
On 4 March 2008 the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held that Romania had violated Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) of the European Convention on Human Rights in conjunction with Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment). The...
Country: Romania
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Topic: Race and Ethnicity
Document date: 10 Mar 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
On 26 February 2008, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that articles 2(1) and 5(1) of Council Directive 76/207/EEC preclude the dismissal of a female worker who is at an advanced stage of in vitro fertilisation treatment, where it can be established that...
Country: Austria
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Topic: Direct Discrimination, Gender Identity
Document date: 06 Mar 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
On 26 February 2008, The Equal Rights Trust again urged Abdullah bin Ahmad Badawi, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, to ensure that the police does not abuse its powers to discriminate against certain civil society groups and opposition party activists. ERT has...
Country: Malaysia
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Topic: Race and Ethnicity, Harassment
Document date: 27 Feb 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
The Equal Rights Trust urges Turkish authorities to consider the two newly adopted constitutional amendments that will ease restrictions on the freedom to wear the Islamic headscarf in public higher education institutions, as a first step to putting in place a...
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Topic: Gender Identity, Religion
Document date: 13 Feb 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
On 22 January 2008 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held that France violated Article 14 (right to non-discrimination) in conjunction with Article 8 (right to private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in refusing the...
Country: France
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Topic: Sexual Orientation
Document date: 24 Jan 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
On 21 December 2007 the Supreme Court of Nepal issued directive orders to the Government of Nepal to end discrimination against people of different sexual orientation or gender identity. The Equal Rights Trust considers the decision of the court to be a...
Country: Nepal
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Topic: Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation
Document date: 16 Jan 2008
Source: Equal Rights Trust
On 14th of December 2007 The Equal Rights Trust urged Abdullah bin Ahmad Badawi, the Prime Minister of Malaysia , to immediately release from detention P. Uthayakumar, M. Manoharan, R. Kenghadharan, V. Ganabatirau and T. Vasanthakumar; and to ensure that...
Country: Malaysia
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Topic: Race and Ethnicity
Document date: 14 Dec 2007
Source: Equal Rights Trust
In support of the Global Day of Action to protest against the state of emergency in Pakistan, on 15th November 2007 The Equal Rights Trust urged President Musarraf to order the immediate release of all those arbitrarily arrested and detained, following the...
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Document date: 15 Nov 2007
Source: Equal Rights Trust
On November 13, 2007, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, overturning the Chamber judgment of 7 February 2006, found that the right to non-discrimination guaranteed by Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated...
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Topic: Indirect Discrimination, Race and Ethnicity, Remedies and Enforcement
Document date: 14 Nov 2007
Source: Equal Rights Trust
On 2nd November 2007 Amnesty International and The Equal Rights Trust called on the Slovenian government to withdraw the draft Constitutional Law, presented to parliament on 30 October, which is intended to resolve the status of the “erased” – people unlawfully...
Country: Slovenia
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Topic: Other Status
Document date: 02 Nov 2007
Source: Equal Rights Trust
Makuc and Others v. Slovenia (Application No. 26828/06)
WRITTEN COMMENTS OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS TRUST
Country: Slovenia
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Topic: Other Status, Multiple Discrimination, Positive Action
Document date: 15 Oct 2007
Source: Equal Rights Trust
Equal Rights Trust and International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights: Joint statement to the OSCE 2007 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting.
Country: Kazakhstan
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Document date: 10 Oct 2007
Source: Equal Rights Trust
The Equal Rights Trust welcomes the establishment of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights.
Country: United Kingdom
Document type: Advocacy Statements
Topic: Unified Human Rights Framework on Equality
Document date: 10 Oct 2007
Source: Equal Rights Trust
This is the text of the Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act 2008, enacted by the United States of America. It was adopted by the United States' President on 21 May 2008 and entered into force on this date.
Country: USA
Document type: National Legislation
Topic: Other Status
Document date: 21 May 2008
