The future of Wales' leading charity for ethnic minority people hangs in the balance as ministers prepare to unveil a report into allegations of financial mismanagement.
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BBCPolitics 6 hours ago (via bbc.co.uk)
To some they're a target for abuse, to others they're just invisible. Just how tough is it to be a minority police officer in Britain?
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Telegraph on 24th Jan 2012 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
In Brixton this morning, Nick Clegg delivered a speech on race equality. He said 'There is another front in the war on race inequality that is too often neglected: economic opportunity... It simply cannot be right that that we still live in a society where, if you are from an ethnic minority, you face unfair hurdles when you strive for success.' As a counterpoint to the Deputy ...
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Spectator on 24th Nov 2011 (via spectator.co.uk)
The conference motion “Tackling Violence Against Women” rightly highlighted the fact that only 10% of local authorities offer dedicated services for Black and Ethnic Minority Women many of whom are subjected to specific forms of violence such as female mutilation and forced marriage. In areas like Rochdale with a large Pakistani/Kashmiri and Bangladeshi community, the
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 11th Oct 2011 (via libdemvoice.org)
Yvette Cooper MP, Labour's Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities, in a speech to Labour's Women's Conference, said: We had an excellent debate this morning. We've heard from over sixty women – over fifty from the conference floor. Views on childcare, equal pay, violence against women, the need for more black and ethnic minority candidates. And from the great debate we ...
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LabourMatters on 24th Sep 2011 (via labourmatters.com)
Ethnic minority representatives will be invited to a security open day at Glasgow Airport to try to allay fears that they are being singled out for questioning by security sta
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Scotsman on 31st May 2011 (via news.scotsman.com)
The inexcusable and repugnant racism plastered all over the glossy election leaflets of Phil Woolas last May should have been enough to condemn Labour to good kicking in yesterday’s Oldham and Saddleworth by-election. Ethnic minority and mildly left-of-centre voters had every right to register their distaste by putting their cross elsewhere. And yet Debbie Abrahams –
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LiberalConspiracy on 14th Jan 2011 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
Newspapers are frustrating. They often report stories that are genuinely interesting and worth investigating in a way that’s so misleading and confusing that the real point gets totally lost amid extremist rhetoric. The Guardian’s reporting of David Lammy’s data on ethnic minority admissions of domestic Oxbridge undergraduates is a good example: some of the underlying
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LiberalConspiracy on 8th Dec 2010 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
In Sweden, Police arrest a 38 year-old man on suspicion of carrying out more than a dozen gun attacks on people with ethnic minority backgrounds. In parliament, Labour MP Keith Vaz tries to blame the shootings on a video game...
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LiberalConspiracy on 9th Nov 2010 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
The Ethnic Minority Liberal Democrats’ (EMLD) motion containing positive action measures to practically address the diversity of Lib Dem elected representatives was ripped to not much more than a review by amendments mostly from Liberal Youth, with the requirement to have at least one BME candidate on shortlists where a Lib Dem MP has resigned,
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 23rd Sep 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)