Graham O’Neill

Graham has worked in human rights for 25 years, across the UK. This experience has mainly been in legal policy, working with and for people in forced migration and using equalities and human rights legislation, with the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) and the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). During the past decade Graham was policy manager at Scottish Refugee Council, where he specialised in asylum, accommodation and anti-destitution. Achievements include (a) writing the CRE’s submission to the Britain wide Discrimination Law Review (2007); (b) initiating, managing, and writing the Inquiry into human trafficking in Scotland with Baroness Helena Kennedy KC and EHRC, followed by (c) drafting with Jenny Marra MSP the private members bill on a human trafficking act for Scotland that led to the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) 2015.