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Commission comments on rise in hate crime

Last updated: 13 October 2016

Equality and Human Rights Commission Chair, David Isaac, comments on the latest Home Office statistics on hate crime.

Commission comments on the findings of the Parker Review

Last updated: 2 November 2016

Commission Chair David Isaac comments on the findings of the Parker Review on board diversity.

Letter from Jack Dromey: plea to the Equality & Human Rights Commission Board: Act now - save the EHRC

Last updated: 8 September 2016

Dear David

Plea to the Equality and Human Rights Commission Board: act now - save the EHRC

Congratulations on your appointment as Chair of the...

Letter from David Isaac in reponse to Jack Dromey MP

Last updated: 15 June 2016

Dear Jack

Re: Plea to the Equality and Human Rights Commission Board

Thank you for your letter of 8 September.

I very much welcome and appreciate...

Equality body responds to publication of landmark human rights report

Last updated: 12 March 2021

Response to National Taskforce on Human Rights Leadership report on incorporating international human rights treaties into Scots law.

The war in Ukraine and issues for local authorities: our letters to local government

Last updated: 26 April 2022

We have written to local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales about the war in Ukraine and their obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and Public Sector Equality Duty.

Protecting people from sex and gender reassignment discrimination

Last updated: 4 April 2022

As the regulator charged with upholding equality and human rights laws and standards, we protect all people in Britain against discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics.

EHRC urges fresh start with critics after the SCA rejects requests to review its status

Last updated: 1 April 2022

We have encouraged critics to reset relations after the Sub-Committee on Accreditation, which assesses national human rights institutions, rejected a request by campaigners to review our international accreditation.

Joint statement welcoming intention to retain the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in Scots law

Last updated: 26 March 2018

A joint statement in response to the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Scottish Human Rights Commission, the Human Rights Consortium Scotland, the Scottish Council for Voluntary

Our response to the LGBT Consortium's open letter

Last updated: 28 May 2021

Our Chair, Baroness Kishwer Falkner, has responded to the LGBT Consortium's open letter to us about our work on LGBT+ rights.