Lynne Featherstone to reform Equality and Human Rights Commission
The Guardian reported on Tuesday that Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone is to reform the Equality and Human Rights Commission, cutting its budget and removing some of its responsibilities, most...
View ArticleLDVideo: Jo Swinson MP on new body image report
Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson has today launched Reflections on Body Image, a report of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image, which suggests that children as young as five years old can be...
View ArticleJo Swinson MP writes…Equality is about more than ticking boxes
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) would never have become a valued and respected national institution if it was allowed to continue on the path it was on. Labour’s tired old way of...
View ArticleEric Avebury writes … Caste discrimination in the UK
When the Equality Bill was going through the Lords in 2010, I moved an amendment with LibDem support, giving the Government power to add caste to the list of ‘protected characteristics’, making it...
View ArticleBaroness Meral Hussein-Ece writes…
On Monday 4 March, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, a renowned and respected disability rights campaigner, tabled an amendment, to which I included my name and support, opposing the Government’s proposal...
View ArticleEric Avebury writes … Let’s outlaw caste discrimination
Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill – Lords Amendment 37 Ping Pong stage, April 16, 2013 On March 4, the House of Lords voted by a majority of 103 for a cross-party amendment to make caste a...
View ArticleOpinion: The ERR Bill….time for some masterly inactivity
On Tuesday April 16 the ping-pong stage of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill will commence in the Commons. As readers of LDV will be aware the majority of Lib Dem peers supported Baroness Jane...
View ArticleOpinion: A letter to Nick Clegg on the General Equality Duty
Dear Nick, I am writing on behalf of the Social Liberal Forum to urge that Lib Dem MPs vote tomorrow to uphold the decision of the Upper House to support the retention of Section 3 of the 2006...
View ArticleOpinion: Welsh Liberal Democrat Conference supports retention of Section 3 of...
At the Welsh Liberal Democrat conference in Cardiff yesterday, a comfortable majority of representatives carried a motion urging that Lib Dem peers be allowed to vote with their consciences on...
View ArticleEqualities – how the ‘General Duty’ was saved
It was fitting that, on the 20th anniversary of the death of Stephen Lawrence, the government decided to listen to campaigners and save a key element of our equalities laws. Ethnic Minority Liberal...
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