Britain could be blacklisted at the UN’s human rights body over its defence of biological sex, The Telegraph can reveal.
The UK’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is facing a “special review” of its international accreditation after lobbying by trans rights groups led by Stonewall, the controversial LGBT charity.
[T]he ability of the UK to participate in UN discussions on human rights is under threat from a review by the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (Ganhri).
Ganhri is an independent body whose accreditation grants access to the UN.
The inquiry was launched after the EHRC gave advice to ministers which suggested that changing the law to define sex as “biological sex” would bring clarity to contentious issues such as the provision of single-sex spaces, Baroness Falkner of Margravine, the watchdog’s chairman, has revealed.
Any change to the accreditation would put the EHRC behind similar watchdogs in countries which have a poor record on human rights including Iraq, Qatar, Colombia, The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zimbabwe.
Just last year, in the face of complaints by Stonewall and other trans rights lobby groups including Mermaids and the Good Law Project, the EHRC had its A accreditation confirmed as part of a routine review.
Source: Britain faces UN blacklist after lobbying by trans rights groups