(CNN)Brexit may threaten years of work made toward improving gender equality in the United Kingdom by eroding employment rights for women and cutting funding for women’s services, according to a report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The report, “Pressing for progress: women’s rights and gender equality in 2018,” was published Monday and is the organization’s largest review of women’s rights. It points out that that important provisions in the 2010 Equality Act, a sweeping anti-discrimination law, aren’t included in the current version of the Brexit bill. As a consequence they won’t be binding under UK law, even though the government has promised the provisions will remain in place after the United Kingdom leaves the EU. “The priority must now be ensuring that women and girls of all ages can enjoy their basic right to feel safe in their everyday lives. Our recommendations are intended to improve the lives of women and girls and to protect their fundamental rights,” said ECHR Chief Executive Rebecca Hilsenrath. ‘If women stop, the world stops:’ Women choose not to work for ‘feminist strike’ Assuming the Brexit bill is passed in its current form, it wouldn’t include the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights,… Read full this story
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