How many characteristics are protected?

nine protected characteristics

Is mental health a protected characteristic?

The Equality Act 2010 is the law that protects you from discrimination and gives you the right to challenge it. You are protected by the Equality Act if you have certain protected characteristics, like a mental health problem.

What is the definition of protected characteristics?

The Equality Act covers the same groups that were protected by existing equality legislation – age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy and maternity. These are now called `protected characteristics´.

Is mental health genetic?

Scientists have long recognized that many psychiatric disorders tend to run in families, suggesting potential genetic roots. Such disorders include autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia.

Is weight a protected characteristic?

Under the Equality Act 2010, discrimination against one of the nine ‘protected characteristics’ (like age and disability) is unlawful, but obesity isn’t one of these.

How do we promote human rights?

There are many ways in which a charity might seek to promote human rights, including: • monitoring abuses of human rights; • obtaining redress for the victims of human rights abuse; • relieving need among the victims of human rights abuse; • research into human rights issues; • educating the public about human rights; …

Why do we have protected characteristics?

Everyone in Britain is protected. This is because the Equality Act protects people against discrimination because of the protected characteristics that we all have. Under the Equality Act, there are nine protected characteristics: age.

Is gender identity a protected characteristic?

The Equality Act 2010 says it’s only unlawful discrimination if you’re treated a certain way, because of certain reasons called ‘protected characteristics’. Gender reassignment is one of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act.

What is human rights and its importance?

Human rights are moral principles or norms for certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected in municipal and international law. The idea of human rights suggests that “if the public discourse of peacetime global society can be said to have a common moral language, it is that of human rights”.

How does a bill pass?

First, a representative sponsors a bill. If the bill passes by simple majority (218 of 435), the bill moves to the Senate. In the Senate, the bill is assigned to another committee and, if released, debated and voted on. Again, a simple majority (51 of 100) passes the bill.

What does the Equality Act do?

The Act protects people against discrimination, harassment or victimisation in employment, and as users of private and public services based on nine protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual …