What is Equality, Diversity and Human Rights?
Equality equates to fairness: where people are always being subject to appropriate, justifiable and non-discriminatory lived experiences.
This especially applies to: users of a service, members of a workforce, members a community, members of a population, and citizens of a country or individual members of humanity.
It is a standard where people routinely subject each other to:
- Fair opportunities: non-discriminatory life chances
- Fair treatment: non-discriminatory behaviour, environments, practices and decisions, and
- Fair outcomes: the results of responses to known or expressed needs, merits, demands, wants, wishes, choices etc. are non- discriminatory and do not lead to disadvantage or inequality.
Diversity equates to personalisation: where people are valued and supported consistent with their individual distinctiveness and uniqueness so their needs can be met and their contributions effectively harnessed.
This again applies to: users of a service, members of a workforce, members a community, members of a population, and citizens of a country or individual members of humanity.
It is a standard where people treat each other in ways that ensures mutual:
- Recognition of each other’s diversity where actions are based on finding out and understanding diversity
- Respect of each other’s diversity where actions are non- judgemental and value each other’s diversity, and
- Responses to each other’s diversity ensure actions are appropriate and relevant to an individual’s uniqueness and distinctiveness.
Human rights equates to standards: were people are treated humanely, and where everyone, at all times and places, routinely receive the basic entitlements that they are due simply because they are human.
It is a standard where people routinely enjoy:
- Freedoms to pursue certain things e.g. whatever one wishes to believe.
- Freedoms from certain things e.g. not to be tortured.
- Freedoms from arbitrary interference from state or public authorities e.g. have ones liberty / freedom of movement restricted without good reason and due process.
