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• Inquiry warns ‘inexcusable and unacceptable’ variation in progress for women on boards in FTSE companies

  Last updated: Array 23 Mar 2016

  A major inquiry reveals that the headline progress of achieving 25% women across the boards of Britain’s biggest companies is masking a reality in which more than 60% of individual FTSE 350 companies (213) failed to meet the target. Fewer than half (47%) ...

• Three in four working mothers say they’ve experienced pregnancy and maternity discrimination

  Last updated: Array 22 Mar 2016

  The Equality and Human Rights Commission is today calling for the Government to take urgent action as new research suggests more than three quarters of pregnant women and new mothers, the equivalent of 390,000 women, experience negative and potentially di ...

• New report reveals hundreds still dying in detention

  Last updated: Array 18 Mar 2016

  An ongoing culture of secrecy, poor access to specialist mental health services and a lack of high quality independent investigations has contributed to hundreds of non-natural deaths in detention, according to a new report by the Equality and Human Right ...

• New report reveals society’s most disadvantaged people fall further behind

  Last updated: Array 09 Mar 2016

  England's most disadvantaged groups have fallen further behind the rest of the population and risk being increasingly locked out of opportunities, according to a major new report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Is England Fairer is an i ...

• EHRC Scotland welcomes action on pregnancy and maternity discrimination

  Last updated: Array 25 Feb 2016

  The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) welcomes today’s announcement by the Scottish Government of a number of commitments which will help to tackle the problem of discrimination faced by pregnant women and new mothers every year. These commitmen ...

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