For 25 years, successive UK governments have refused to sign a key international treaty designed to ensure that all persons are equal before the law and are entitled to the equal protection of the law. The treaty is Protocol 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) which was opened for signature in 2000. Protocol 12 is important because, in seeking to ensure the equality of all persons through the enforcement of a general prohibition of discrimination, it guarantees that no one shall be discriminated against on any ground by any public authority.  Protocol 12, therefore, enforces the key principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and all are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. The UK is an outlier in the Council of Europe The UK has not signed Protocol 12. This makes the UK an outlier in the Council of Europe because,...