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Commission welcomes Government's commitment to disabled people's human rights
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The Commission today welcomed the Government's plans to empower disabled UK citizens to exercise their rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which the Government has pledged to ratify by Spring 2009. The Conventio ...Primary school pupils in Brighton think their MP is white, posh, and very well off
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When 26 pupils from a Brighton primary school were asked to draw what they thought an MP looked like this week, the majority thought their MP was white, posh, and very well off. Over half of the students from Middle Street Primary School in Brighton, iden ...Commission calls for radical approach to parental leave
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission is today launching proposals for a fundamental change in parental leave, to give mothers and fathers greater support in bringing up children. The three-step, carefully-costed plan will increase the take up of the p ...Formal Inquiry opened into Human Trafficking in Scotland
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission Scotland will today launch an in-depth Inquiry into human trafficking in Scotland with a particular focus on commercial sexual exploitation. The Inquiry, to be led by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, will seek to identi ...