On Human Rights Day 2024, the Equal Rights Trust co-convened an event with the UN Human Rights Office and Aix-Marseille University to promote the UN Practical Guide to Developing Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Legislation and to discuss efforts to enact and implement these laws, two years after the launch of the Guide.
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Between 24 and 28 November, the Trust’s Director, Jim Fitzgerald and our Chair, former Chief Executive of the Equality Commission of Northern Ireland, Professor Evelyn Collins CBE, visited to Armenia to engage with stakeholders involved in the process to enact the draft Law on Ensuring Equality. The experts were invited to Yerevan by the Non-Discrimination and Equality Coalition, a grouping of civil society organisations which has been advocating for the adoption of comprehensive equality law for more than a decade, and its partner the Democracy Development Foundation.
The Trust’s latest publication, Understanding the New EU Directives on Standards for Equality Bodies: Legal Digest, has been launched. Developed with and for Equinet – the European Network of Equality Bodies, the Digest is the first legal analysis of two European Directives on Standards for Equality Bodies which were adopted in May 2024.
On 4 July, the Equal Rights Trust’s Head of Research. Sam Barnes, presented our new research on the links between discrimination and corruption in the land sector at an event at the LANDac Conference, in Utrecht, Netherlands.
On 21 May, the Trust’s Director, Jim Fitzgerald, participated in an online event to formally launch A Promise Not Realised: The Right to Non-Discrimination in Work and Employment, a comparative research report developed by the Trust in partnership with the Solidarity Center’s International Lawyers Assisting Workers Initiative.
The Equal Rights Trust and the United Nations Human Rights Office have launched the Russian edition of the United Nations Practical Guide to Developing Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Legislation (English edition available here).
Today, the Equal Rights Trust and Transparency International launch our latest investigation into the links between discrimination and corruption. This Beautiful Land: Corruption, Discrimination and Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa explores – for the first time – the dynamics of discriminatory corruption in land governance.
The Equal Rights Trust and the United Nations Human Rights Office have launched the Russian edition of the United Nations Practical Guide to Developing Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Legislation (English edition available here).
On 26 March, the Equal Rights Trust and the UN Human Rights Office co-convened a panel discussion at the 148th annual InterParliamentary Union Assembly in Geneva, on the need for states to enact comprehensive and effective anti-discrimination laws.
The Equal Rights Trust is pleased to announce the release of our latest report, A Promise Not Realised: The Right to Non-Discrimination in Work and Employment. This report is the outcome of a global research project implemented in partnership with and for the Solidarity Center’s International Lawyers Assisting Workers Initiative.
