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21th Session of Human Rights Council, Geneva

Speaker: IHEU Representative Josephine Macintosh

In its Equality Act of 2010 the British government outlawed discrimination in the workplace and in society generally on the grounds of race, gender and for a wealth of other reasons, although discrimination on the grounds of caste was put on the back burner. The Act simply empowered the minister responsible to add caste to the types of discrimination outlawed by the Act as and when the need for such an addition became more clearly apparent. But since then and following pressure from Hindu community leaders but despite overwhelming evidence of the existence of caste discrimination among the Hindu community, the government has failed to act.
Based on information provided by the UK National Secular Society (whose hard work was instrumental in having this additional power incorporated in the 2010 Act) IHEU representative Josephine Macintosh raised this issue in the course of the triennial examination of the British governments human rights record at the Human Rights Council on 20 September 2012.

Consideration of Universal Periodic Review Report of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
A/HRC/21/9 (http://daccess-ods.un.org/TMP/1012484...)
A/HRC/21/9/Corr.1 (http://daccess-ods.un.org/TMP/5265592...)
A/HRC/21/9/Add.1(http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDO...,
22nd Plenary Meeting - 21st Regular Session of the Human Rights Council.

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