EHRC re-accredited as an ‘A status’ National Human Rights Institution

[ResisterRex]

Tweet and link:

twitter.com/ehrc/status/1580927984604962818?s=46&t=puNnkWzkNi3jWyQOxXDfFg

"We have been re-accredited as an ‘A status’ National Human Rights Institution, following a routine re-accreditation process with @ Ganhri1.

We are delighted that our vital work in defending human rights has been recognised internationally again.

More: www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/our-work/news/equality-and-human-rights-commission-re-accredited-%E2%80%98-status%E2%80%99-organisation"

Background from February

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-60331962

Excellent news!

Oh dear the TRAs aren't happy about this 🤣🤣🤣

Excellent news and that fact that TRAs aren't happy makes it even better.

Yes - TRAs seem to be struggling (yet again) with the concept that there are eight other protected characteristics...

Gosh that's a lot of screeching and foot-stamping.

They look ridiculous.

Good news thanks OP

Absolute scenes on Twitter.
Less “Scarlet for yer ma” & more 400–480THz for people’s entire family trees back to Eve 🤦‍♀️

Amazing how when things don't go TRAs way it the process that is is wrong not them, the accreditation body already dumped the Stonewall attempt to have EHRC's status removed, they really can't bear people saying 'No' to them.

Saw a very familiar name popping up on that thread. Won’t say it in case it’s like beetlegeuse but it’s bundled in there somewhere 😂

Great news.

Couple of familiar names on that EHRC Twitter thread. I didn't realise that The Good Law Project were 'supporting' Stonewall's attempt to get the EHRC status removed, their losses sure are mounting up.

The politicisation of the UK's human rights body has placed trans people in the firing line, but this attempt to create a hierarchy of human rights in the UK is a very real threat to everyone, particularly those of us protected by the Equality Act

The absolute irony of that statement in the BBC article from Nancy Kelley.

Good job they didn’t call themselves the good at law project lol. That’d be false advertising 😀

Have not good at law actually ever won anything?

Accredited by whom?

www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/our-work/news/equality-and-human-rights-commission-re-accredited-%E2%80%98-status%E2%80%99-organisation scroll down for deets about GANHRI.

Twitter tantrums are epic.

'evil' 😂

Why on earth are some people expending so much energy fighting the body that is there to support and protect their rights? Is it because said body is also protecting women's rights? That's just not acceptable, I presume.

Well no @ArabellaScott only one group should have their rights protected 😂. We can’t have the body set up to protect everyone’s rights actually protecting everyones rights. They’re only supposed to protect the rights of those people ‘on the right side of history’

Human rights groups are fighting conversion therapy for homosexuality in Iran where the treatment includes sex change treatment, and is the reason why Iran carries out the second most sex change surgeries in the world (as it sees that as a cure for homosexuality).

In the UK trans rights campaigners are trying to get human rights organisations to lose their status as the EHRC are worried about many homosexual individuals being led down a path of changing their sex so that they become heterosexual members of the opposite sex.

Is there an expectation the EHRC will forget the single sex exemptions exist?

Are they trying to remove these exemptions altogether?

TBH it might be clearer for everyone if they were gone.

Currently, we have the ghost of so-called exemptions that are in practise never, ever used when they are needed. But useful cover for, say, the Scotgov, to point to them and say 'look, women can have their spaces if they want', while conveniently forgetting that even in one of the examples given (rape survivors group) where it would be appropriate to have a single sex exemption, we have a male (without a GRC, no less) in a position that had been reserved for women.

We'd be better off without that figleaf pretending to protect women.

Better be honest and say 'there are no single sex spaces', and there are no women's rights anymore.

No, the TRA are upset because the EHRC confirmed single sex exemptions exist and can be used legally. How would women be better off @ArabellaScott ?

Because the Scotgov's explicit reasoning for continuing with self ID was that we have the single sex exemptions. It's being used as handy get out clause - oh, we have these exceptions. See, women are fine!

We're not fine. We've lost all the rights that we had under the EA. The Scotgov ignore the law as it pleases them or at their convenience (see the census and the recent FWS court case).

Either the EHRC needs to properly uphold the protections - hold organisations to account, provide far more robust guidance and explain clearly why women are entitled and need and deserve them - or scrap the pretence that women have them.