The human rights watchdog has struggled to explain why its major report on Britain’s “equality and human rights landscape” has ignored key breaches of disabled people’s rights by the UK government. The Equality and Human Rights Monitor report*, published today (Thursday), […]
Human Rights
Human rights watchdog fails to follow through on legal threat to government
Nearly three-quarters of calls to equality helpline relate to disability, new figures show
New figures show that nearly three-quarters of all discrimination-related enquiries to the government-funded equality helpline have come from disabled people, with this proportion rising every year. The figures, obtained by Disability News Service through a freedom of information request, show that […]