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Submission to CEDAW

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) recalls that the Northern Ireland Act 1998 took steps to merge the four statutory bodies in Northern Ireland already established by anti-discrimination legislation. Hence, the Equal Opportunities
Commission for Northern Ireland, the Fair Employment Commission for Northern Ireland, the Commission for Racial Equality for Northern Ireland and the Northern
Ireland Disability Council are being amalgamated to form a single Equality Commission.
The NIHRC is aware of concerns that the government failed during this process of amalgamation to remedy what are perceived to be disparities between the powers of the existing anti-discrimination bodies. It is therefore disappointed that the UK’s report failed to mention that the protection against political and religious discrimination in Northern Ireland is of a superior standard to that against sex discrimination.

submission-to-cedaw-june-1999.pdf