Ministers pick Phillips to lead new human rights and equalities body
Written by Musmirah_Shahzada on Monday, September 4, 2006 13:58
The government has chosen Trevor Phillips to be the head of a new human rights and equalities body
Trevor Phillips, is set to be handed a powerful new role as the country's first official champion of women, gay people and other groups who suffer discrimination.
The head of the Commission for Racial Equality is poised to be named as the chairman of a new 'super-watchdog' that will also combat bias against a range of other people: ethnic minorities, the elderly and the disabled.
Phillips's pending appointment as leader of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) will see him given tough powers to stamp out discrimination and highlight 'problem areas' requiring tough action.
Phillips, is understood to have been picked from a shortlist that included Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights body Liberty, ex-union leader Margaret Prosser and Naaz Coker, chair of the British Refugee Council
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