Equality and Human Rights workshop will be the first jointly-partnered collaborative venture between the Human Rights Consortium and the AHRC
The ‘Equality and Human Rights Commission of Great Britain: challenges and opportunities’ one-day roundtable workshop is conceived as a forum for practitioners, policymakers and academics from across disciplines and sectors to engage in a constructive sharing of perspectives and insights related to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
The workshop represents the first jointly-partnered collaborative venture between the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Human Rights Consortium. It will be held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and will involve individuals from the EHRC, researchers from universities of Bristol, Liverpool, London, Nottingham and Oxford and a range of policy experts from the public and third sector.
It will offer a constructive policy-oriented appraisal of the EHRC at a time of growing domestic and international interest in the role of this institution in advancing domestic equality and human rights standards. The meeting is intended to feed into current policy discussions around equality and human rights compliance in the UK and specifically the role of the EHRC in this field. The workshop reflects earlier discussion identifying significant gaps in existing knowledge on the activity and significance of the EHRC.
The workshop offers an invaluable opportunity to:
•Deepen understanding of the eventful experience of the EHRC over the past four years
•Feed into current policy discussions around equality and human rights compliance in the UK
•Discuss the future prospects for the EHRC with international experts in the field
•Evaluate the impact of significant budgetary reductions on the EHRC as well as possible reform of the EHRC’s remit and powers in the context of the Public Bodies Bill
•Assist in the development of a network of practitioners, policymakers, and researchers brought together by a professional and/or scholarly interest in the EHRC
•Develop collaboration with partners within the academic, policy and legal world
Further information about the workshop
Human Rights Consortium website
