DO NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS COVER THESE ISSUES

Able Magazine talks to Sir Bert Massie on the drastic change of introducing the Commission for Equality and Human Rights.

[ClickPress, Tue Jun 12 2007] October 2007 will see the launch of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR), this will bring together the Disability Rights Commission, the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality. Its aim is to provide a central source of information on race, gender and disability equality, as well as promoting issues around religion and belief, age and sexual orientation.

Able Magazine talks to Sir Bert Massie, the first and only Chairman of the Disability Rights Commission, on being a lifelong disability rights campaigner, the various positions he has held in the past, including the Chief Executive of RADAR, and his hopes for the CEHR.

The CEHR will ensure that there are specific committees to deal with different strands of equality thereby ensuring that all are dealt with equally. There will of course be initial fears around the CEHR as its introduction and the combination of three separate equality commissions marks a dramatic change in the way all equality issues will be dealt with. However, Sir Bert Massie emphasises that everybody behind the CEHR are working towards the same thing, “a world in which there is no discrimination against anybody”.

Issues as important as these should be receiving the coverage they deserve, particularly in national newspapers as this drastic change is something that is affecting a vast majority of our country.


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