Equal Rights Trust

🚨 OPPORTUNITY: RESEARCH AND COLLABORATION COORDINATOR 🚨 The Equal Rights Trust is looking for a Research and Collaboration Coordinator to help us as we work to support those working on the frontlines of the fight against discrimination. 📅 Position: Permanent; Full-time (37.5-hour work week) 💲 Salary: £27,500 📌 Location: Hybrid / remote At the Equal Rights Trust, we fight discrimination. We do this through the law. We work in partnership to support the development, adoption, implementation and use of equality laws. Our new Research and Collaboration Coordinator will play a central role in delivering our mission to support those on the frontlines of the fight against discrimination around the world. You will help us develop and strengthen our partnerships, respond to the needs and demands of our partners and support the development and delivery of a diverse range of research projects and initiatives. If you have: ➡ A degree in law (or another relevant discipline) ➡ Knowledge of international human rights and / or equality law; ➡ Experience of working with equality activists or human rights defender Then click the link for more information and details on how to apply: https://lnkd.in/dXA56_9n

REPORT LAUNCH: “A Promise Not Realised: The Right to Non-Discrimination in Work and Employment” May 21, 2024 | 9:00 AM Washington, DC time | 2:00 PM UK time | 6:30pm IST On May 21, together with the Solidarity Center ILAW Network, we’re launching our new report "A Promise Not Realised: The Right to Non-Discrimination in Work and Employment". Combining legal research and analysis with more than 100 stakeholder interviews across 6 jurisdictions, the report seeks to answer the question: why does discrimination in the workplace persist despite the widespread adoption of laws and regulations that prohibit it? With evidence from Brazil, Colombia, India, South Africa, Tunisia and the UK, the report underlines the need for states to provide effective protection for informal workers, and to enact comprehensive anti-discrimination law, but also goes further, calling for a greater focus on proactive, preventative measures.   The online launch event will feature the Trust’s Director, Jim Fitzgerald, alongside Nalini Nayak, General Secretary of the Self Employed Women's Association, Kerala, India; Leonardo Cardoso de Magalhães the Federal Public Defender General at Defensoria Pública da União in Brazil; and Melanie Field, former Chief Strategy and Policy Officer at the Equality and Human Rights Commission. To register please click the link below: https://lnkd.in/eqyEceK2

El miércoles 15 de mayo lanzaremos la edición en español de la Guía práctica de la ONU para desarrollar una legislación integral contra la discriminación, en colaboración con United Nations Human Rights y Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos Corte IDH El evento será retransmitido en directo en https://lnkd.in/eV4SwQT7. --- On Wednesday 15 May, we will launch the Spanish edition of the UN Practical Guide to Developing Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Legislation, in collaboration with United Nations Human Rights and the Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos Corte IDH. The event will be livestreamed on https://lnkd.in/eV4SwQT7. 

NEW: Our Director, Jim Fitzgerald has written for the Alliance for Universal Digital Rights (AUDRi) about our work on #AlgorithmicDiscrimination - our report #DiscriminatorybyDefault and the Principles on #EqualitybyDesign which we published last year. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/di4v5hZK Together with our partners in this work, Mary Kay Global, we're now launching a new collaborative effort to work with businesses to develop practical guidance on equality by design for those commissioning or using algorithmic systems. Thanks to Mary Kay for their partnership. And we'll soon be announcing a series of briefings for equality activists on what equality by design is, and how to engage national and international institutions on integrating this approach into regulatory frameworks. Please contact algorithmicdiscrimination@equalrightstrust.org for more info. ... and to read our report "Discriminatory by Default: Case studies on the discriminatory impacts of algorithmic decision making systems" or the Principles on Equality by Design in Algorithmic Systems, click here: https://lnkd.in/d9hHSxgy  

To mark the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Equal Rights Trust brought together a group of national equality organisations and coalitions from across the globe to issue a call for a "decade of action on equality and non-discrimination". The Trust and ten national equality organisations called on states to prioritise the enactment of comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation. The call to action was developed in response to the “push for pledges” launched by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, seeking pledges from states, civil society and other stakeholders making concrete commitments to advancing human rights to mark the 75th anniversary of the Declaration. It is signed by equality organisations and coalitions in 10 countries which are actively working to promote the adoption of comprehensive anti-discrimination laws in their respective countries - Federación Argentina LGBT+, Argentina; Non-Discrimination and Equality Coalition, Armenia; Nagorik Uddyog, Bangladesh; Defensoria Pública da União, Brazil; Alliance of Iraqi Minorities Network, Iraq; International Movement Against all forms of Discrimination and Racism, Japan; Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, Kazakhstan; South Korean Coalition for Anti-discrimination Legislation, Republic of Korea; Coalition for Equality, Kyrgyzstan and Stop the Discrimination Coalition, the Philippines. The pledge notes that 75 years on from the adoption of the Universal Declaration “more than half of the countries in the world do not have laws which provide effective and comprehensive protection from all forms of discrimination, on all grounds and in all areas of life”. It goes on to call on “all states which have yet to develop comprehensive anti-discrimination laws to do so”. In addition to calling on states to prioritise anti-discrimination law reform, the signatories pledge to work for the adoption of new laws in their own states. The pledge notes that the United Nations Practical Guide to Developing Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Legislation, developed in partnership with the Equal Rights Trust, states, unequivocally, that countries must enact and implement comprehensive anti-discrimination laws, and sets out the necessary elements of such laws. On Human Rights Day 2022, the High Commissioner for Human Rights called on states to use this Guide to “renew and reinforce their commitments to the equal enjoyment of human rights through enacting, enforcing and implementing comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation”.