Adding status to proscribed list would ‘constitute a crucial shift in the equality landscape’, says Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission
The rights commission said that 'unlike other grounds of discrimination, poverty is often seen as a sort of"moral failure", rather than a structural disadvantage'. Photograph: PA
Discrimination is prohibited under existing legislation on nine grounds, including age, disability, race and gender, but the commission says adding socio-economic status to the list would “not only strengthen the effectiveness of the Equality Acts, but constitute a crucial shift in the equality landscape in Ireland”.
Setting out its case for including a probitition on discrimination based on socio-economic status in that legislation, IHREC argues “poverty and social exclusion create barriers to equal opportunities”.
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