Conservative peer Sayeeda Warsi has called for an independent inquiry into Islamophobia in the party, describing the Tory response to claims of anti-Muslim prejudice as “woefully inept”. Baroness Warsi (pictured)
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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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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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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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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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Nuns at an orphanage used anti-Semitic threats while beating a boy of Jewish descent, an inquiry has heard. The witness, who was at Smyllum Park in Lanark during the 1940s
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Ministers have been urged to put in place a comprehensive race strategy following the publication of the Lammy review. David Isaac, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said:
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People are not raising potential cases of child abuse as they fear being labelled racist, according to a Labour frontbencher. Shadow women and equalities secretary Sarah Champion said there is
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Cases of Asian grooming gangs targeting white girls were not previously examined as “rigorously as they might have been”, a former Crown Prosecution Service chief has admitted. Lord Macdonald of
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Friday 24 March saw the launch of Iriss Insight 35 – Gypsy Travellers: Human rights and social work’s role – at an event to start conversations to bring about lasting
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