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- Equal Opportunities Commission - Offers advice and guidance on sex discrimination and equal pay issues for England, Scotland and Wales.
- Equality Direct - Telephone advice service and website providing advice on equality legislation and good practice.
- Commission for Racial Equality, UK - The CRE is a publicly funded, independent organisation that exists to tackle racial discrimination and promote racial equality.
- Women and Equality Unit - Responsible for co-ordinating policy on women and gender equality issues in Government
- Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities - Organisation carries out capacity building work, anti-racism training, policy work and campaigning on racial equality issues.
- Telegraph: Gays to have the rights of married couples - Francis Elliott, deputy political editor. A review led by Barbara Roche, the minister responsible for equality issues, has concluded that gay couples should be allowed to register their relationships, conferring on them the same next-of-kin, property, and inheritance rights as marriage.
- Office for Disability Issues - Government office which works with all government departments to develop and improve services for disabled people. Information about activies, and the government's commitment to disabled people.
- DCA: Human Rights - Includes law and judgements, policy statements, news and guidance.
- Disability - on the agenda - Information of the New Deal for the Disabled initiative and disability rights. There is also a section on the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative which provides detailed guidelines for web authors on making their pages accessible to all.
- Elizabeth's Gender Free Universe - Gender freedom and gender equality issues, photos, musings, and links.
Wikipedia Articles
- Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality (Sweden) - The Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality () is a ministry of the Government Offices of Sweden. Its areas of responsibility include consumer affairs, democracy issues, gender equality, human rights, integration issues, metropolitan affairs, minority issues, non-governmental organizations and youth policy.
- Minister of State (with special responsibility for Equality) - The Minister of State, who has special responsibility for Equality, is officially styled Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform (with special responsibility for Equality), and is a junior ministerial post in the Irish Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The Minister works together with the senior Minister in this department and has special responsibility for all equality issues.
- Equality Now - Equality Now is a non-governmental organization that works to protect the human rights of women around the world. The group provides an international framework for spreading awareness of issues and providing support to local grassroots groups working to address issues of concern to it.
- Sonia Shah - Sonia Shah (born 1969 in New York City, United States) is an American investigative journalist and author noted for her articles on corporate power - especially with respect to agriculture, oil and pharmaceutical industries - and on gender equality with specific reference to issues that affect developing countries.
- Female education - Female education is a catch-all term for a complex of issues and debates surrounding education (primary education, secondary education, tertiary education and health education in particular) for females. It includes areas of gender equality and access to education, and its connection to the alleviation of poverty.