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Parliament has passed landmark legislation prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination, following after a nine-hour debate yesterday. While there were some dissenting voices, the majority of MPs spoke in favour of the Human Rights Amendment Act 201...

Human rights champion Lois Browne Evans would have been disappointed by the Progressive Labour Party’s ambivalent stance on the Human Rights Act, according to her daughter Tina Evans Caines. An amendment outlawing discrimination on the basis of sexua...

By Premier Craig Cannonier I regret that my trip to London this week means I will not be in the House of Assembly today to debate the proposed amendments to the Human Rights Act. This is an important Bill because it speaks to the kind of Bermuda we m...

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...