The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is a non-departmental public body in Great Britain that was established by the Equality Act 2006 and came into being on 1 October 2007.
The Commission has responsibility for the promotion and enforcement of equality and non-discrimination laws.
However it is failing in the United Kingdom many decades after Martin Luther King delivered his I have a Dream speech in 1963, in the United States of America.
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Herman Ouseley says Equality and Human Rights Commission [EHRC] has failed
Equalities campaigner blames absence of leadership and passion for 'disconnection' from people suffering discrimination
The UK campaigner against all forms of discrimination says the EHRC has failed as an organization, and if it ceased to exist, most would not notice its disappearance.
The Commission has failed as an organization and if it were to cease to exist, most of the people it was created to support would not notice its disappearance, the distinguished equalities campaigner against discrimination explained.
Describing the failure of the body as a tragedy, Ouseley said the EHRC "had failed the most vulnerable communities in our society" since it was created in 2007. It had no relevance to the lives of victims of discrimination.
"The people who are most disadvantaged feel totally disconnected. They don't even know that the organisation exists, let alone believing they can turn to it and get the help that they need," he said.
The campaigner for equal justice and against all forms of discrimination said he would be very sad to see the body shut down, but added that he did not think its closure would be widely noticed.
"If you closed it down for a lot of people it won't mean anything to them because they'll still have what they consider to be the status quo – which is very little access to proper advice and support to represent them in the area of inequalities," he said.
Lord Ouseley was the chair and chief executive of the Commission for Racial Equality from 1993 to 2000, said he felt the previous system of separate bodies championing different equality agendas, which disappeared with the EHRC's creation, had been more successful at championing people's rights.