Equality updates
Latest updates from UCU's campaigning for equality for all.
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26 March 2026
UCU has published a briefing on the equality provisions in the Employment Rights Act 2025. Implementation is expected in phases across 2026 and 2027, with many…
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1 May 2025
In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman, UCU's women members' standing committee (WMSC) and LGBT+ members' standing committee…
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24 January 2024
UCU has responded to the the Home Office consultation on non-statutory guidance on safe access zones around abortion clinics. We have serious concerns about the…
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29 September 2023
Refugees and migrants span across all intersections of identity and experience. They face a range of institutional and societal barriers and challenges in a world…
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13 June 2023
UCU is shocked and alarmed by the decision to sentence a mother-of-three to 28 months in prison for using abortion pills to end her own pregnancy. This case highlights…
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24 June 2022
UCU Scotland has responded to the consultation on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. The Scottish Parliament's Equality, Human Rights and Civil Justice…
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3 February 2022
Recent interventions by the Equality and Human Rights Commission concerning the rights of trans and non-binary people are deeply concerning.
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1 December 2021
The Disability Employment Charter sets out concrete aims and objectives to redressing the current imbalance and is in response (in part) to the government's National…
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Statement in response to Al Jazeera podcast series on sexual harassment and abuse in UK universities4 November 2021
Elements of the 'Degrees of Abuse' podcast series published in recent days by the Al Jazeera Investigative Unit illustrates in heart-breaking detail both the worrying…
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11 February 2021
UCU has joined with Maternity Action and 19 other organisations and trade unions to call on business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng to act swiftly upon the Women & Equalities…
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