5. The Committee also welcomes the adoption of the Employment Equality Act of 1998 and the Equal Status Bill of 1998 which aim at removing several aspects of discrimination relating to, inter alia, gender, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race, colour, nationality, national or ethnic origin and membership of the traveller community.
link to the full text of the Concluding Observation: http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/E.C.12.1.Add.102.En