A genocide prevention organisation is calling on the UN to revoke the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) top-grade status because of what they see as an attempt to ‘erase’ trans people.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, a multi-national non-governmental organisation, accused the EHRC of playing a key role in what it called a “transparent attempt to eradicate transgender and intersex people from British life”.

In a statement to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), the UN’s regulator of national human rights institutions (NHRI), on Friday (5 September), the organisation called for the EHRC to be stripped of its “A status” accreditation for breaching the Paris Principles, which set the minimum standard NHRIs must meet to be consider

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