Director of Equality Now, who has spearheaded several campaigns, including for the creation of a United Nations Working Group to focus on ending discrimination against women in law and in practice. Gave evidence to the Inquiry about the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women and that Committee's concern about the "lack of positive media portrayals of ethnic minority, elderly women and women with disabilities".
Inclusion London, commissioned by the Glasgow Media Group and the Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research, was asked to carry out a study of changes in the way the media reports disability and how those changes impacted on public attitudes towards disabled people. In carrying out the study, it compared media coverage of disability in five papers in 2010-11 with a similar period in 2004-05.
Now known as Migrants Organise, this is a platform where refugees and migrants work to develop leadership and open up spaces for organised participation of migrants and refugees in public life. It sought to draw the attention of the Leveson Inquiry to the practices of certain sections of the British press in reporting immigration and protection issues.
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Formed in 1987 to champion the rights of people living with HIV and to campaign for change, it welcomed the Leveson Inquiry and the opportunity to look at areas of bad reporting.
