The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has retained its accreditation as an ‘A status’ National Human Rights Institution

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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has retained its accreditation as an ‘A status’ National Human Rights Institution.
Some civil society organisations in the UK wrote to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions’ Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) last year, asking for the EHRC’s accreditation to be reviewed.

The SCA considered the issues raised in detail through its Special Review process.

The issues considered included the EHRC’s advice to the UK government on the definition of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010; the EHRC’s work to address discrimination against trans people in the UK; the steps the EHRC has taken to strengthen cooperation with civil society organisations working on trans rights; and the EHRC’s internal investigation of complaints by staff.

The SCA has now confirmed to the EHRC that it remains fully compliant with the ‘Paris Principles’, which provide the benchmark for high-performing, independent National Human Rights Institutions.
The decision means that the EHRC retains its independent participation rights at the UN Human Rights Council and remains able to report directly to the United Nations on human rights issues.

Continues with statement from Baroness Kishwer Falkner, Chairwoman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission at https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/human-rights-regulator-retains-status-0

That’s excellent news.

Every time these groups try, and fail, to smear bodies that have returned to fact and sanity, they strengthen the reputation of those they are trying to damage, while weakening their own.

GIRFUY stonewall!! Brilliant news.

Brilliant news. I'm off over to twitter to see how it's going down with the TRAs

Excellent [rubs hands together] excellent .

Just looked at the list of organisations which called for the review of EHRC’s accreditation. Lots of the usual suspects. But also Liberty! FFS. Now that’s an organisation which has clearly forgotten what it is supposed to stand for. Astonished their members and Board supported this.

How many times have Stonewall et al tried to get the EHRC's accreditation downgraded? I hope that if they try again the SCA treat them as the vexatious irritants that they are and tell them to FO.

GIRFUY = get it right f*ing up you ?

I think we can guess....... :)

@lechiffre55

GIRFUY = get it right f*ing up you ?

Got it in one.

@lechiffre55 tumble weed from the other side, probably waiting on the "official line" that they can all parrot

Liberty is not a surprise. Just look at them (NCCL as they then were) and PIE.

You have to wonder if any of this is sinking in?
We started with a riot of childishness, and now the adults keep turning up to restore order. You have to wonder how long before the children realise the party is over and it's going home time now.

If you're surprised at Liberty's stance, take a look at the horror that the ACLU in the US has become.

Yes, I’ve seen that. Awful. I used to know several, fantastic, people who used to work at Liberty who did really great things while there. I used to be a member myself. Maybe that’s why I’m so shocked. It’s so far out of their remit.

That was such a long time ago. Lots of organisations have dubious pasts. But they had changed a lot after that. Completely different staffing, structure, Board and work. They’re supposed to be a human rights organisation now!

Liberty has lost their way for some time. Wasn't there something to do with a piece Maya wrote and Liberty or a similar organisation behaved very poorly?

https://hiyamaya.net/2020/05/17/three-human-rights-organisations-bravely-capitulate/

https://www.forstater.com/time-for-civil-debate-yet/

I misread it as an adaptation of this and was somewhat confused.

https://gettingitrightfirsttime.co.uk/

I must admit there was part of me that had been a bit (more than I liked) worried about the outcome.

Given the trans narrative in some many of their different sections, I wondered if the EHRC would get an unbiased hearing.

But what a shit show.

Talk about keeping Kishwer Falkner constantly fire fighting rather than focusing on her job.

But maybe that is what this is about.

Just constant diversions, and time consuming bureaucracy, rather than the EHRC tidying up the mess from the time when Stonewalled staff thought they were in charge.

Great news.

I left several years back over their genderist stance - and only recently found out about their historic support for PIE.

And then, as with the actions against LGB Alliance, accusations that they're failing to do anything meaningful because it's so straightforward to swim when others are forcibly attempting to drown you…

tbh if they'd been downgraded and branded as anti-trans monsters I would have seen it as a badge of pride for their impartial adherence to human rights for all

I can't see any coverage of this in the press (just guido fawkes). Given the current political fallout from similar attempts to discredit Cass, I thought it would be a moderately significant story.

It is a similar dynamic in both cases. Perfectly standard fact-based forms of enquiry (the Cass Review, the revised EHRC guidance around the Equality Act) are targeted for delegitimisation when they fail to support a particular narrative.

Just landed on thw Times site.