6.3.1. Equality and Diversity
6.3.1.1. Reinstate the funding for the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
6.3.1.2. Make equality and diversity lessons mandatory in all schools from the first year of Primary Education onwards, to combat all forms of prejudice and bullying to promote understanding and acceptance of difference to ensure community cohesion.
6.3.1.3. Provide comprehensive training for teachers, police and other public servants on all diversity and inclusion issues.
6.3.1.4 Enforce penalties against employers who continue to implement unequal pay.
6.3.1.5. Legislate to remedy inequality in pension inheritance for same-sex marriage partners and same-sex partnerships.
6.3.1.6. Require every school to have an anti-bullying programme that explicitly combats homophobia
6.3.2. Women's Rights
6.3.2.1. A minimum 40% of all members of Public companies and private sector boards should be allocated to women.
6.3.2.2. Take steps to tackle media sexism starting with the banning of pornographic materials from both the print media and internet.
6.3.2.3. Ensure that the laws to prevent discrimination against women on grounds of pregnancy and maternity are enforced.
6.3.2.4. Make it illegal to stop mothers breastfeeding their babies in public places.
6.3.2.5. Ensure consistent long-term funding of rape and abused women's shelters.
6.3.3. Disability Rights
6.3.3.1. Support and enforce the UN convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
6.3.3.2. The system where an external contractor assesses whether people are fit for work and return to the system of relying on the judgement of GP's or other health professionals.
6.3.3.3. Increase the carer's allowance by 20% and provide carers with legal rights and annual leave.
6.3.4. Children's Rights
6.3.4.1. Give 14 - 17-year-olds the right to vote. These participants must qualify for the right to vote by answering a few basic questions about politics correctly to see if they have the awareness to vote successfully.
6.3.4.2. Introduce votes at age 16 for elections and referendums across the UK, and make it easier to register to vote in schools and colleges.
6.3.5. Freedom of Speech
6.3.5.1. Ensure judicial authorisation is required for the acquisition of communications data which might reveal journalists’ sources or other privileged communications, for any of the purposes allowed under RIPA; and allow journalists the opportunity to address the court before authorisation is granted, where this would not jeopardise the investigation
6.3.5.2. Introduce statutory public interest defences for exceptional cases where journalists may need to break the law (such as RIPA, the 2010 Bribery Act, and the 1998 Computer Misuse Act) to expose corruption or other criminal acts.
6.3.5.3. Protect free speech by ensuring insulting words, jokes, and non-intentional acts, are not treated as criminal, and that social media communications are not treated more harshly than other media
6.3.6. Human Rights Act
6.3.6.1. Protect the Human Rights Act and enshrine the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in UK law. We will take appropriate action to comply with decisions of UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights.
6.3.6.2. Block any further attempts to limit the right to trial by jury.
6.3.6.3. Extend the rules governing the storage of DNA and fingerprints by public authorities to include all biometric data – like facial images.
6.3.6.4. Strengthen safeguards to prevent pre-emptive arrests and misuse of pre-charge bail conditions to restrict civil liberties and stifle peaceful protest.
6.3.6.5. Cut back on the petty over-regulation of everyday life, like removing licensing requirements for leafleting for community events, liberalising the restrictions on songs and readings at wedding ceremonies, and permitting swimming in open bodies of water
6.3.7. Freedom of Information
6.3.7.1. End the Ministerial veto on release of information under the Freedom of Information Act.
6.3.7.2. Build on the success of crime maps to use data more effectively to reduce crime, working towards the publication of business-by-business data for crimes committed on commercial premises, and exploring the feasibility of mandatory reporting of fraud losses by individual credit and debit card providers.
6.3.2. Women's Rights
6.3.2.1. A minimum 40% of all members of Public companies and private sector boards should be allocated to women.
6.3.2.2. Take steps to tackle media sexism starting with the banning of pornographic materials from both the print media and internet.
6.3.2.3. Ensure that the laws to prevent discrimination against women on grounds of pregnancy and maternity are enforced.
6.3.2.4. Make it illegal to stop mothers breastfeeding their babies in public places.
6.3.2.5. Ensure consistent long-term funding of rape and abused women's shelters.
6.3.3. Disability Rights
6.3.3.1. Support and enforce the UN convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
6.3.3.2. The system where an external contractor assesses whether people are fit for work and return to the system of relying on the judgement of GP's or other health professionals.
6.3.3.3. Increase the carer's allowance by 20% and provide carers with legal rights and annual leave.
6.3.4. Children's Rights
6.3.4.1. Give 14 - 17-year-olds the right to vote. These participants must qualify for the right to vote by answering a few basic questions about politics correctly to see if they have the awareness to vote successfully.
6.3.4.2. Introduce votes at age 16 for elections and referendums across the UK, and make it easier to register to vote in schools and colleges.
6.3.5. Freedom of Speech
6.3.5.1. Ensure judicial authorisation is required for the acquisition of communications data which might reveal journalists’ sources or other privileged communications, for any of the purposes allowed under RIPA; and allow journalists the opportunity to address the court before authorisation is granted, where this would not jeopardise the investigation
6.3.5.2. Introduce statutory public interest defences for exceptional cases where journalists may need to break the law (such as RIPA, the 2010 Bribery Act, and the 1998 Computer Misuse Act) to expose corruption or other criminal acts.
6.3.5.3. Protect free speech by ensuring insulting words, jokes, and non-intentional acts, are not treated as criminal, and that social media communications are not treated more harshly than other media
6.3.6. Human Rights Act
6.3.6.1. Protect the Human Rights Act and enshrine the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in UK law. We will take appropriate action to comply with decisions of UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights.
6.3.6.2. Block any further attempts to limit the right to trial by jury.
6.3.6.3. Extend the rules governing the storage of DNA and fingerprints by public authorities to include all biometric data – like facial images.
6.3.6.4. Strengthen safeguards to prevent pre-emptive arrests and misuse of pre-charge bail conditions to restrict civil liberties and stifle peaceful protest.
6.3.6.5. Cut back on the petty over-regulation of everyday life, like removing licensing requirements for leafleting for community events, liberalising the restrictions on songs and readings at wedding ceremonies, and permitting swimming in open bodies of water
6.3.7. Freedom of Information
6.3.7.1. End the Ministerial veto on release of information under the Freedom of Information Act.
6.3.7.2. Build on the success of crime maps to use data more effectively to reduce crime, working towards the publication of business-by-business data for crimes committed on commercial premises, and exploring the feasibility of mandatory reporting of fraud losses by individual credit and debit card providers.