Equality & Human Rights Commission launches YouTube channel
The Equality & Human Rights Commission (‘the Commission’) launched its new YouTube channel on 2 April. The Commission will use this and other social networking sites to tell people about its work promoting fairness, equality and human rights.
The new channel features a range of video clips relating to the Commission’s work, including a series of stories called Equally Different, which features people from all walks of life talking about why fairness is everyone’s right. Some well-known faces appear alongside some less well-known.
Gok Wan, of Channel 4’s How to Look Good Naked, talks about what it was like to grow up “gay, half Chinese and fat”. Other famous faces include comedian Sanjeev Bhaskar, as well as artists Alison Lapper and Grayson Perry. Other video clips feature, amongst others, a teenage traveller, a Holocaust survivor, a gay father and an Asian lesbian couple who have just married in a civil ceremony.
Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Commission, said: “I am delighted that the Commission has joined the social networking era. Using sites like YouTube, we want to show people how we can help them in their daily lives. We want to start a conversation about the issues we tackle. We will add to the channel over time clips from important speeches, interviews with staff, or mini-films of projects we fund in the community.”
The channel can be viewed at:
www.youtube.com/EqualityHumanRights
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