ABSTRACT
Joint Committee on Human Rights: Sixth Report (2002-03) HL Paper 67-I, HC 489-I:
Options for the Institutional Arrangements for Equality and Human Rights
189. The Government has announced that it has come to a settled view on the establishment of a single equality body. We take that as our starting point, without expressing any view on whether that was the correct decision. In that context, we have concentrated upon four main options for equality and human rights institutional architecture-— an Equality Commission confined to tackling unjustifiable discrimination
and promoting equality of opportunity and no human rights commission; — an Equality Commission that also has regard to other human rights relevant
to its work in tackling unjustifiable discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity, but no separate human rights commission;
— two separate Equality and a Human Rights Commissions, however configured in relation to the two models for an equality body outlined above; and
— a single Human Rights and Equality Commission.
