Human Rights News
Marrakesh Treaty Extension to Guernsey
What is the Marrakesh Treaty? The Marrakesh Treaty to facilitate access to published works for persons who are blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled has been extended to Guernsey from 1st January 2021. This treaty aims to [...]
Human Rights Day plea for States to deliver on previous commitments
Statement by Deputy Peter Roffey Human Rights Day plea for States to deliver on previous commitments Thursday 10 December 2020 Today marks the United Nations Human Rights Day and the President of the Committee for Employment & Social Security [...]
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
The GDA is excited to see the extension of CRC locally The States of Guernsey media release: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child formally extended to Guernsey and Alderney Wednesday 09 December 2020 The United Nations [...]
Human Rights Day 2020
What is Human Rights Day? Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December — the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR is a milestone document [...]
Community Awards 2020
This years Guernsey Community Foundation (GCF) Community awards were held on Tuesday 17th November 2020 at St James. We were excited to have a number of short listed nominations, as well as many of our member charities and partners. [...]
Black Lives Matter
The Black Lives Matter event was an important day for #Guernsey. In Guernsey there has been a lack of understanding around Human Rights, UN Conventions and the protection from all forms of Discrimination. Locally we have been waiting for [...]
Rob’s FAQs on Discrimination Legislation
Have you got a question on the proposals for a new Discrimination Ordinance? you can view them here Maybe its a general Question about What are Human Rights? Why do we need discrimination legislation? Why don't we follow [...]
Realising Human Rights in Guernsey – Jan 2020
The Human Rights (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2000, came into full effect in 2006, but, so far, the States have not provided a mechanism by which all citizens can be assisted to exercise those rights The Human Rights (Bailiwick [...]
Human Rights Day 10 December
Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December — the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR): a milestone document proclaiming the inalienable rights which everyone is inherently entitled to as [...]
Media – refocus of the discrimination legislation
Please find below the media and comments re the discrimination legislation
Myth Busting videos
Drs Buckley and Quinlivan, University of Gallway, share their research and considerable experience re a number of Myths around the Discrimination Legislation proposals Thank you to volunteer Michael for the assistance to transcript the videos for us. You can read [...]
Mike Read – Health sector rep
We welcome Mike Read as a co-optee to the GDA executive committee as the Health sector representative. Mike strengthens the Social Policy team, which includes Catherine Hall as Education representative, Arrun Wilkie, Rob Harnish and Rob Platts. Married, father of [...]