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Premier Craig Cannonier is today urging parliamentarians to approve changes to the Human Rights Act which would prohibit age discrimination in all areas except the workplace and ban sexual orientation discrimination altogether. The Premier, who is of...

Government has been applauded for responding to concerns over its planned changes to the Human Rights Act. A Bill amending the law to include sexual orientation as one of the grounds on which discrimination is unlawful was tabled in the House of Asse...

Government is to withdraw a provision within proposed amendments to the Human Rights Act which critics claimed would enable the police to harass people. The amendment expands the grounds on which discrimination is unlawful to include sexual orientati...

More than 100 people have signed a petition circulated by the Centre for Justice calling for change to proposed amendments to the Human Rights Act. Those signatures came in the space of less than 24 hours. The advocacy group’s concerns are now being ...

Anti-racism advocacy group Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda has thrown its support behind a call to withdraw a section of a proposed amendment which would expand the definition of harassment in the Human Rights Act. CURB says that the section wou...

Government is taking another look at a proposed change to the Human Rights Act intended to expand the definition of harassment after an advocacy group said it would allow the police to harass people. The Centre for Justice has launched a petition dri...

The new chairman of the Human Rights Commission says the impact of having independent commissioners will be “huge” for Bermuda and should eliminate the “constant fear” of bias felt by those complaining about discrimination. Michael Hanson, who was a...