The future president of the Commission for equality and humans rights, which will begin functioning in 2007, has called for a legislative change to allow positive discrimination, in order to fight against the persistence of the inequalities. Currently, "positive action" is legal, but "positive discrimination" remains prohibited. (Ref. 061291)
Trevor Phillips, a politician of Guyanese origin, estimates that certain sectors of the labour market “will not cease being entirely white as long as one will not take new forms of actions”. His remarks, made in his last speech as president of the Commission for racial equality, are important since he will lead, in a few months, the new Commission, in charge of gender equality, disabled people, and the non-discrimination on the basis of beliefs, sexual orientation, age and ethnic origin. And a
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