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Your support makes all the difference.The UK's human-rights watchdog should be scrapped because it contributes "very little to meaningful equality", a think-tank claims in a report issued today.
The civil society group Civitas says that the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) costs millions of pounds a year and uses statistics in an illogical way. It also accused the body of taking a "narrow approach to social policy" which is neither reasonable nor useful.
But the EHRC rejects the Civitas claims, and says its job is to "start a debate on issues where we could see better outcomes for people suffering unfair disadvantages".
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