Conferences

Conference notes the new legislation to protect shop workers from violence, threats and abuse introduced in Scotland in August 2021. This law created a specific offence for abusing, threatening or assaulting a retail worker. Conference also notes that the...

Congress notes with concern that Northern Ireland is now the only region of these islands without a strategy on tackling violence against women and girls. It notes further that over the last years Northern Ireland has one of the highest rates of femicide (i.e...

Conference welcomes the passing of the Justice (Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims) Bill and specifically the provisions in relation to up-skirting and down blousing. Conference commends all those who campaigned to ensure that Northern Ireland has the...

At present it is not illegal in Northern Ireland to discriminate against older people in the provision of goods, facilities and services, whereas such discrimination is illegal in England, Scotland and Wales. The Northern Ireland Assembly have been unable to...

Delegates may recall that similar motions to this have appeared on the Agendas for the NIC BDCs in 2016 and 2021 It is reprehensible that the legislation to outlaw discrimination on the grounds of age in the provision of goods facilities and services has not...

The Fermanagh Trades Council notes that the Equality Law was applied in Great Britain in 2010 which banned discrimination on grounds of Age in the provision of Goods & Services. However it did not apply in Northern Ireland. Whilst there is Extensive Equality...

Conference is alarmed at the continuing growth of far right parties across Europe and beyond. The success of far right parties in the recent Swedish and Italian elections should be a wakeup call for us. We must remember the lessons from the previous century...

Show Racism the Red Card (SRtRC) is the UK’s leading anti-racism educational charity. It was established in January 1996, thanks in part to a donation by then Newcastle United goalkeeper Shaka Hislop. Show Racism the Red Card is now active in the United...

Conference calls on the Northern Ireland Committee to progress a campaign to decarbonise public services in Northern Ireland. Following the passage of Northern Ireland’s Climate Change Act this year, the transition to a zero-carbon economy is especially urgent...

The recent bumper profits for fuel companies has reinvigorated the drive for alternative sources of fossil fuels. Previously unacceptable, dangerous and environmentally destructive production methods are back on the agenda for both government and big business...