Saturday, January 28, 2006

No justice without equality / IRR, 25 Jan 2006

http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/january/ha000017.html
Herman Ouseley
"The real concern about the CEHR is whether it will make any difference in challenging racism, other forms of prejudice and helping individuals who are the victims of discrimination. When the Bill was first mooted in a White Paper a few years ago, the government stated that the proposed CEHR would have 'a light touch' with the private sector. In other words, there will be 'strong' anti-discrimination legislation but not much enforcement. The lack of enforcement of anti- discrimination legislation is already reflected in the low level of support for individual cases across all the existing Commissions and there is no evidence to suggest that the government wants to upset employers who discriminate."