The racially-motivated murder of a refugee by a mental health patient who had been released from a psychiatric hospital was “avoidable”, a review has found. Jeffrey Barry, 57, stabbed to
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Social workers should use Facebook and Twitter to engage with people sharing extreme and violent material online, according to an expert on the far right and terrorism. Vidhya Ramalingam said
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Almost a third of disabled people in Britain said they feel there is prejudice towards them, a study has found. Around 32% of disabled people feel there is a lot
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Austerity and immigration policies imposed by the Government have made the UK a more racist country, a UN inspector has said. Tendayi Achiume, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Racism, criticised
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Islamic representatives in Northern Ireland have welcomed Ian Paisley’s apology for retweeting a controversial remark on Ramadan by right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins. Members of the Belfast Islamic Centre said they
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Twitter has updated the wording of its rules to make the reporting of hateful comments against disabled people easier following a campaign by a disability charity. Muscular Dystrophy UK had
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Scottish Transport Secretary Humza Yousaf is calling on a Labour councillor to resign after he made an Islamophobic comment about the MSP. Dumfries and Galloway councillor Jim Dempster has been
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A charity has urged Twitter to do more to help disabled users report hate speech against them on the site, claiming it remained too difficult to report disability-related abuse. Muscular
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Fear of hostility has stopped nearly one in three disabled people from going out in their local area, according to new research. A poll of 1,609 disabled adults in the
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More than 400,000 people have been placed on a police “vulnerable persons” database, an investigation has found. Officers add people they encounter at incidents to the Interim Vulnerable Persons Database
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