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Public sector equality duties require state institutions in Great Britain to take into account how their measures and decisions influence those citizens’ lives, who are affected by discrimination. The purpose of these equality duties is for these institutions to consider the discrimination and needs of disadvantaged people in their day-to-day business and to give more priority to the inclusion of diversity. As positive duties they are not focused on sanctioning individual discrimination but to eradicate and to prevent the structural and institutional causes for discrimination.

The following chapters will present the contents of the equality duties, their addressees and target groups, their effects and purpose.